Recent Podcast and Webinar Appearances
Growth Amplifiers
Profit by Design
Remodelers on the Rise
The Designers Show
- How to Dramatically Increase Your Profits Using the Magic of Job-Costing
- Discover Your True Cost (and Profit-Potential!) for Each Employee Labor Hour
Suiter Business Builders
Builder Partnerships
HBRA of Central Connecticut
Private: Job Costing
Business Innovators Radio Network
The Scientific Remodeling System
- Appearing Profitable While Still Losing Money
- The Many Faces of Job-Costing
- 9 Secrets to Maximizing & Managing Your Gross Profits
The Roofer Show
- The Roofer Show: The Cost of Chaos
- Increase Your Profit With Effective Job Costing Reports
- How To Calculate Your True Labor Burden
- The Cost of Chaos
- Covid-19 & Your Business
- Why Job Cost? + Ways to Use Estimate vs. Actual Reports (Part 1 of 4)
- How to Locate and Charge for Lost or Invisible Costs (Part 2 of 4)
- How Job Costing Helps You Spot (and Eliminate) Your Low-Profit and Loser Jobs (Part 3 of 4)
- Add 10% (or more) of Your Gross Sales to Your Bottom Line (Part 4 of 4)
- How To Set Up Your Financials The Easy Way
Professional Experience
Diane brings more than 30 years of professional accounting experience to her QuickBooks business advisor practice. After beginning her career as a licensed CPA for a regional firm, she spent 14 years at Great Lakes Bankcorp, first as an internal auditing manager, then as management accounting manager where she established bank-wide planning, goal-setting, budget processing, accountability reporting, and activity-based cost-profitability measurement systems.
Certified
- Advanced QuickBooks ProAdvisor (per Intuit, only 2% of all ProAdvisors are Advanced Certified)
- QuickBooks Enterprise ProAdvisor (per Intuit, only 4% of all ProAdvisors are Enterprise Certified)
- QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor (Intuit)
- Taught Business Accounting and Job-Cost and Financial Management for National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) University of Housing
Awards
- 2022 “(U.S.) ProAdvisor of the Year” (Insightful Accountant)
- Top Niche ProAdvisor – Construction (Insightful Accountant)
- Top 100 ProAdvisor: 2014-15-16-17-18-19-20-21-22 (Insightful Accountant)
- Associate of the year — 1 year (Builders & Remodelers Association of Greater Ann Arbor)
- Distinguished Service to the Building Industry — 1 year (Builders & Remodelers Association of Greater Ann Arbor)
Developer & Author
- Construction Accounting & Management Program (CAMP) – training available through online workshops
- AccountingPRO™ – a robust construction template & support system for QuickBooks
- employee Cost & Pricing Analyzer™ (eCPA) – Labor Burden & Billing Rate calculator
- Accounting With QuickBooks: For Home Builders and Remodelers by Diane Gilson and Conni Evans
- Various other accounting support products — Please see our web store for additional Excel-oriented accounting support analyzers, tools, and accounting procedures created by Diane Gilson
Nationally Published Articles
- Nation’s Building News Online
- Firm of the Future: How to Provide Niche Services to Construction Clients
- Remodeling Magazine
- Other industry publications
Speaking Engagements
Diane’s accounting expertise and industry experience has earned her a variety of speaking engagements, including the Michigan Association of CPAs, the Contractors’ Assistance Program (CAP), the National Remodel America Show (NARI), the Dwyer Group, Midwest Builders’ Shows, Custom Builders Symposium, National Remodelers’ Shows, International Builders’ Show and other national, regional, and local construction shows and training seminars.