ARTICLE:  What to Look for in a Construction CPA

ARTICLE: What to Look for in a Construction CPA

Business Productivity Tips & Training
  Hiring a CPA or tax accountant for you construction business is as critical as hiring a supervisor on the job site.  Not all CPA's or tax preparers understand construction and when they don't your books could be in as much of a mess as your job site would be if you hired a supervisor with no experience! In that perfect world, your company wouldn’t need a CPA.  We would all just pack up our adding machines, green eyeshades, and armbands and move on to other professions. But, that isn’t going to happen, is it? In fact, the regulatory environment is headed in the other direction.  States are looking for revenue, there are three or four new federal tax acts each year, and GAAP is going global.  These current and…
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VIDEO: How to Calculate Equipment Costs per Hour

Business Productivity Tips & Training
  How to Calculate Equipment Costs per hour.  What does it cost your company, on an hourly basis, to have equipment on the jobsite? Whether you have a mower, a compact tractor, or an excavator on the jobsite, learning how to calculate the cost-per-hour for each piece of machinery that your company owns and uses on a job site is a great tool for understanding, and even eventually, recouping the actual cost of the machine itself. Most contractors have a rough idea of these costs - but these days is a rough idea good enough?  We don't think so. Equipment cost-per-hour rates are calculated by adding together three (3) distinct pieces of information. Watch this YouTube video to learn how to calculate the cost of your equipment.     Once…
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