Job Cost & Construction
Accounting Resources
Use these resources to get more out of your QuickBooks
55 minutes
Diane does a live demo with Jake Reeves (of Summit Hosting) to show how 'cloud-hosting' REALLY works for QuickBooks desktop. Find out why we're impressed with Summit Hosting!
Benefits: See how you can set up your REAL LIFE hosting features as Diane shows how it looks and acts in real life. PLUS - get your questions answered about how hosting might work for YOUR company.
59 minutes
Diane and busybusy’s Bracken Anderson answer "what you really need to know" questions about time tracking and job costing – asked by attendees (just like you).
Benefits: When you understand what job costing is and how to get started with it, you'll see how you can focus on your winning jobs. And that means more profits for you!
58 minutes
Eric Fortenberry (Founder & CEO of JobTread) and Diane team up to talk about JobTread, an end-to-end construction management software tool that can help owners best manage (and track) the MULTIPLE moving parts in a construction business.
Benefits: Get organized, complete your projects on time, and increase your profits!
40 minutes
Diane interviews Dan Baumann (Chief Architect expert and founder of Chief Experts Academy), to reveal how you can maximize your design and building profits.
Benefits: See the BIG IDEAs behind design services and Chief Architect. (And learn some insider secrets that can help you maximize your design and building profits!)
43 minutes
If you continued to employ workers during the pandemic and you haven’t yet filed to claim your Employee Retention Credit (ERC), you could still be eligible for up to $26,000 in cash per employee!
Benefits: See how you can get a free ERC evaluation that could be worth a significant amount of money! (And there’s no cost to you to find out if you qualify for this credit.)
34 minutes
Kyle Hunt (Business Coach for Remodelers) and Diane dive into specific examples that will inspire you to continue to improve your job costing. Hear why he thinks you need to be just as good at job costing as you are at doing your finished trim work.
Benefits: As Kyle says "Good job costing really makes you a better estimator, which is a huge benefit."
54 minutes
Bob Cain (Business Unit Leader, BuildTools) was a home builder just like you and he designed the BuildTools product to help you organize the chaos of construction! Watch as he and Diane pull back the curtain to share how it works.
Benefits: It integrates with QuickBooks to empower you to run a more efficient, successful, and profitable business!
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Divvy is the FREE program/app that allows you to pay all of your bills and invoices right from the Divvy platform. You get great features like:
- Automatic expense reporting when you spend
- Budget the way your company spends
- Get money out to your team in seconds
- Use virtual credit cards
Plus MANY other features and benefits...
- Automatic expense reporting when you spend
- Budget the way your company spends
- Get money out to your team in seconds
- Use virtual credit cards
56 Minutes
Ed Earl really delivers the goods in this webinar with Diane Gilson. They explore common perceptions (and misperceptions!) when it comes to finding and hiring qualified employees (especially within the construction industry).
Benefits: Increase your success when it's time to find and hire qualified employees.
45 minutes
Kenny Harper (Business Growth Coach at Growth Amplifiers) helps you dive into how YOUR customers 'experience' your company so you can develop an authentic strategy with a focus on all aspects of your "customer's journey."
Benefits: Create predictable profitability, build customer trust, and achieve new levels of success for your company.
51 minutes
Glimpse a more "zen" way to attract the RIGHT kinds of (profitable) leads into your life. Business Coach, Kyle Hunt, teams up with Diane to share a powerful, yet easy and effective 'Success Path' so you can focus and magnify your marketing impact!
Benefits: Maximize and automate your most valuable asset to make a huge difference in your lead-generation.
50 minutes
Isaac Barlow – busybusy CEO and construction business owner – combined his desire to find the right time tracking numbers with his background as a contractor and construction company owner to become a true innovator in construction industry technology.
Benefits: busybusy can help maximize the profitability and efficiency of your site crew and labor.
53 minutes
What are the "traditional, tried and true marketing methods"? And why AREN'T they working like they used to? Spencer Powell (CEO of BuilderFunnel and host of Builder Funnel Radio) digs into these questions and shows you the alternatives!
Benefits: Get the buyers you REALLY want and keep your future pipeline chock full of profitable work!
54 minutes
It might sound too good to be true, but... YES, you CAN 'Cloud-ify' Pro, Premier, or Enterprise Desktop! Jake Reeves and Diane Gilson reveal secrets you should know about moving your QuickBooks desktop company files to the Cloud.
Benefits: It really IS possible to have 'anytime, anywhere' access for your QuickBooks desktop company file!
48 Minutes
Mark Summe (CEO of Minute7 software) and Diane reveal a 'time-ly' game plan that will help YOU win big and optimize your profits for every hour of labor you – and your employees – invest into a project!
Benefits: Streamlined time tracking processes, enhanced productivity, and easy integration into QuickBooks Timesheets.
45 minutes
Angela Meharg of Datisfy, Inc., and Diane dig into what you can do to convert your underlying 'buried' data into critical management INFORMATION.
Benefits: Transform your company to run more effectively, efficiently, and profitably with reporting secrets that you never knew before!
47 Minutes
This "Profit by Design" podcast is a gold mine! Listen – and unearth – the nuggets of information YOU can use to become a more profitable and effective business owner. Get an inside look at how to design a business that supports the lifestyle you desire.
Benefits: Keep more of the money you make!
51 minutes
Paul Sanneman (recruiting expert at Contractor Staffing Source) reveals the secrets behind finding, hiring, and keeping the RIGHT employees to run a successful construction business. It's a challenge, but they're out there!
Benefits: Minimize the time YOU spend to search for, select, interview, and hire great workers, AND avoid time-consuming and costly hiring mistakes!
41 minutes
Diane and busybusy’s Bracken Anderson (Business Development) highlight why job costing is a major game-changer for ALL construction businesses, and show you some of the magic that happens when you use it.
Benefits: Job costing will help you spot and eliminate loser jobs, so you can then focus on your winning jobs. And that means more profits for you!
31 Minutes
Access to reliable, accurate job-cost and management reports can be a struggle for most construction and manufacturing companies. During this podcast, Diane discusses how setting up an internal job-cost and reporting system can make dramatic changes to business profitability!
Benefits: Discover Misconceptions About Business Profitability
39 Minutes
A primary rule of business survival: DON'T run out of cash! If you’re a construction business owner in this Covid-19 economic environment, will your business survive these huge changes? Dave Sullivan (The Roofers Show) and Diane share their thoughts about which numbers you should be tracking (closely!) ...
Benefits: A creative, realistic look at cash flow and potential options within rapidly-evolving government programs.
48 Minutes
To run a profitable roofing business, you have to understand the basics of accounting and the basics of setting up your financial system. Find out how understanding your accounting system and making few proactive updates can lead to increased profitability.
Benefits: How to keep your Chart of Accounts simple!
35 Minutes
Job-costing can take on many forms based on business needs. For many construction businesses, it is essential to create the type of reports that will guide construction business owners to better decisions and higher profits.
Benefits: Find out how job-costing can improve your business decisions.
48 Minutes
Way too many business owners just aren’t making the profits they should! In order to do so, you need to customize your accounting system so you can make the calls you need to. Learn which jobs are making money, which jobs are losing money, and what to do about it.
Benefits: Make more money with better analytics.
49 Minutes
You’d be surprised how much money most contractors are missing out on because they are not using their true labor burden before markup. In this podcast, we use a free tool to determine all the hidden costs that you need to include in your true labor cost to make your expected profit.
Benefits: Free Employee Labor Calculator
Comparative Pricing Grid
I've created an interactive "self-directed pricing grid" for QuickBooks Online (QBO) and the desktop version of QuickBooks Premier. Enter your specifics to see the estimated annual cost based on version, number of users, or number of company files you may need.
Benefits: A fast, easy way to see preliminary, comparative costs BEFORE requesting a formal quote.
8 Pages
From Intuit's Firm of the Future site: Check out my article in their #RecipeforSuccess series. Get the ingredients to my #RecipeforSuccess on how to provide the best possible niche services for construction clients. Join the conversation on Twitter: #RecipeforSuccess
Benefits: Learn the key ingredients and steps for construction companies to achieve success.
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If you're currently in QBO and are thinking of switching to QuickBooks Desktop, this representation of the general process should point you in the right direction. NOTE: Additional steps may be required for companies with more detailed underlying data or transactions.
Benefits: Get a free mapping for how to implement the transition from QBO.
50 minutes
Corey Monson of busybusy and Diane show you how you can quickly become smarter (and more profitable) as an employer or financial manager.
Benefits: Improve your project outcomes and convert your business investment into the profits you deserve.
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QuickBooks Desktop Premier is specially designed to help you get accurate job cost reports. And because we are QuickBooks Solution Providers, we can help you order directly through Info Plus Accounting.
Benefits: QuickBooks can help you get accurate job cost reports and we'll get you set up with the right version.
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QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is specially designed to help you get accurate job cost reports. And because we are QuickBooks Solution Providers, we can help you order directly through Info Plus Accounting.
Benefits: QuickBooks can help you get accurate job cost reports and we'll get you set up with the right version.
6 Minutes
If you've ever wondered how to figure out who made an entry in QuickBooks and on which date, this video is the one for you! A little detective work can get you the background information you need within your accounting system.
Benefits: Get more detail out of your QuickBooks transactions and reports.
10 Minutes
Find out the most optimal arrangement for your chart of accounts by watching this short video. A few changes can have a drastic impact on your gross profit percentage.
Benefits: Get more accurate reporting by modifying your chart of accounts.
9 Minutes
Have you ever wondered why your bank accounts don't reflect the profit you see in your financial statements? You can utilize a few reports in QuickBooks to help you figure out why your ending cash balance differs from your profits.
Benefits: See exactly how profits track through to your current cash position.
8 Pages
QuickBooks items allow construction businesses to track, report on, and ultimately get the financial detail they need on all of their jobs. Simplify your accounting and bookkeeping, save time and money, and get the reporting you need to run a more profitable business.
Benefits: Create the most effective items list for your construction company.
13 Pages
QuickBooks Online has its advantages and disadvantages compared to Desktop. Explore why construction, manufacturing and service business may want to stay away from moving to the cloud (for the time being).
Benefits: Find the version of QuickBooks that's right for your company.
41 Pages
Failing to plan, track and monitor key financial results can seriously impact a company's financial future. This story is designed to show how different companies handle their numbers and operations.
Benefits: Quickly identify the right and wrong ways to run a construction business.
57 Minutes
Why you should care about your true costs of labor? If you're not sure, take a peek at this webinar to explain how to price labor to get the gross profit percentage and dollars you need. Learn why you should track true labor costs for each and every job.
Benefits: More accurately calculate labor costs on each job.
1 Hour 12 Minutes
Having issues holding employees accountable for reducing errors and meeting goals? From our "Better Numbers Better Business" series, this webinar provides some insight into how to convey specific goals to employees for jobs and tasks and how to measure the results.
Benefits: Get more value out of every employee.
58 Minutes
Need some help reorganizing your chart of accounts? Learn how your accounts need to be organized in a way that shows income, cost of goods sold, and company overhead. Get the right information by creating account headers, groups, subtotals, and adding percentages.
Benefit: Get better, more usable information from your reporting.
39 Minutes
Are you entering detailed cost estimates into QuickBooks? The results can help you improve internal procedures, create more accurate future estimates, and track which types of jobs are more profitable than others.
Benefits: Get better, more usable information from your reporting.
44 Minutes
If you've ever wondered how making a few changes could reduce cost and increase your income, this is a great resource to explore. Find out how to implement changes to improve your bottom line. There are an additional 56 benefits to being in control of your numbers.
Benefits: Improve your bottom line.
44 Minutes
Many contractors, who look profitable on paper are actually losing money. Unfortunately, this is not uncommon in the construction industry. Learn why business owners need to tell what "true costs" are as a project is underway, not after.
Benefits: Quickly identify jobs that are "winners vs. losers".
1:20 Minutes
Get your staff in the field and in the office on the same page! Learn how QuickBooks and CoConstruct can be structured to use a “NED2 (Never Enter Data Twice)” approach to create useful, and critical, job-cost reports.
Benefits: Save time and money.
51 Minutes
Need to gain more financial control over each and every job? Learn how QuickBooks + lienwaivers.io can be integrated to provide critical job-costing information as well as speedier cash-flow.
Benefits: Improve your cash-flow.
