May 26, 2017
Contractors, Bookkeepers and Tax Accountants are trying to keep everything all in one place. That is great. A single bank account on the surface is the answer in simplicity.
Why – when putting everything in one
bank account; it could be a FINANCIAL
DISASTER.
Go to Home Depot, Lowes or any other larger store.
Use your debit card; Drop or lose your debit card,
Someone finds it and buy stuff until he or she have spent all your
money!
(may be a little harder with the chip but how many places can you
run your debit card as a credit card?)
Just as there are Common Sense rules about Sharie’s Cash Management 101Tips, there are common sense rules about mixing multiple companies in a single QuickBooks file:
Everyone can own Multiple
Companies
Depending on the structure if the financial statements are on a
Schedule C And 1040 or 1120S (S-Corp) or other return that in turn
rolls up into The Contractors personal 1040 return.
The annual tax return is pages and pages long (feels like a zillion
if you have to make paper copies)
Your banker wants the 1st two pages of your personal 1040 Annual
Tax Return.
If you need commercial accounts, Dun & Bradstreet wants the 1st two
pages of your business tax return. Why because the 1st two
pages is the summary of all the pages and worksheets that follow?
As a Construction Contractor, you need the details of the balance
of the pages to run your business.
How do you know how much money each company is making?
I can think of several examples of multiple companies being in a
Single QuickBooks File.
Husband has a Construction Company and Wife has a Non-Construction
Company all mixed together.
Next example:
Construction Company, Non-Construction Company plus a few Flipper
houses for friends, and a few rental homes for themselves. Add in a
few side jobs that are Professional Services.
The word MEGA-MESS comes to
mind:
In Washington State – Plumbers are at the field rate for workers
comp even when they are cleaning their truck at the shop.
Why? Because Labor & Industries “Says – cleaning the truck is all
part of the job.” No Lower Shop Rate is allowed.
Overhead is different for
each of the following companies:
Mixing Companies in a Single QuickBooks File:
The Construction Bookkeeper will try to keep your chaos straight
and fight a losing battle with reality. What will not happen is
good Financial Reports.
The “What About’s” is just “White Noise” as The Contractor who
insists on everything in a single QuickBooks file against all
advice will benefit from “The Mess.” (Notice I did not say
benefit in a positive way)
QuickBooks Desktop is fantastic for Construction Contractors to get
good reports. (Remember, Garbage In = Garbage Out)
Reports cannot be better than the information given. Think Lumber –
Standard & Better or Stud Grade is much better than the grade that
is commonly referred to as airplane propellers. Specialty Lumber
Yards have a variety of quality lumber.
A single project may have multiple grades of lumber. It’s a Science
to use the right piece of lumber in the proper application to last
the longest. Basics are that you can pound a nail in every kind of
wood. Next Question – Which type of nail?
Everything about Accounting Especially Construction Accounting is the intertwined:
I would like to believe that you have a real desire to make
changes that will make the lives around you easier and therefore
you will get the financial and other job costing reports easily and
efficiently.
Of course, if you hired an Admin Assistant who is expected to act
as your Office Manager |In-House Bookkeeper and has No Bookkeeping
or QuickBooks Skills than you pick the phrase that best suits you.
My
suggestion:
With messy QuickBooks – each time money is moved between companies it usually Looks Like Income and by default treated as Income, and you could pay far more in taxes than you saved by mashing everything together.
Looking forward to helping you make 2017 be a Better Year?
Thinking Happy Thoughts.
Sharie
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Thank you very much, and I hope you understand we do care about
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our services.
Bye for now until our next episode here on the Contractors Success
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