Aug 4, 2017
The horror stories about bad bookkeepers (in-house or as 1099 contractors) are never ending. For this reason, Contractors are reluctant to interview or hire an outside bookkeeper. Many Contractors are frustrated that the person they hired costs too much appears to know less about bookkeeping than the contractor themselves. Contractors I have talked to mention they know very little about accounting and do not want to know more.
You Want Someone To:
THE SYSTEM IS THE SOLUTION!
When Contractors Try To Do The Bookkeeping:
In doing the
bookkeeping themselves; contractors will hook up every app they can
find and set it on automatic and “Hope For The Best. ”Using the
concept of setting it up once and never having to touch it again.
The Contractor is hoping that Magically all the transactions will
automatically download to the proper income or expense accounts.
The reality is not quite that simple.
Everyone is looking to automate their processes. Every minute The
Contractor is the time that is taken away from doing something more
productive or something more fun. Paperless Bookkeeping is
achievable when setup properly. The answer is electronic documents
being automatically being sent to someone who knows what to do when
the documents are received.
Willingness to follow directions and accept new ideas. It is the
difference between using a framing hammer or a nail gun. Both will
get the job done. One is a lot harder. Who is the expert in the
field?
For Construction Contractors the saying “garbage in, garbage out”
applies to their bookkeeping needs. Each level of detail adds more
time for the contractor to explain in writing details about the job
to someone else.
Ten minutes wasted trying to learn and use QuickBooks is ten
minutes wasted. That extra 10 minutes is time you do not have. I
could tell you – It’s just 10 minutes. You would roll your eyes up
at me, in the same way, I will roll my eyes up at you if you were
to tell me that Construction Bookkeeping can be completed in just
10 minutes per day.
We embrace technology and use multiple cloud based and desktop
software to provide Paperless Bookkeeping Services to our clients.
Our QuickBooks Files using a fully working QuickBooks Desktop Version In The Cloud and
accessible to you from any web enabled device wherever you have
internet access.
Our Document
Management Systems that link to your bank, credit card to provide
electronic documents of your transactions. These are not direct
feeds from the bank that cause havoc with your QuickBooks Data
File.
Do not allow or support direct feeds from your financial
institution to your QuickBooks Data File. We manage the
transactions and enter them properly into your QuickBooks Data
File. Again – Garbage In = Garbage Out. All accounting software is
designed for the broadest number of customers and if it is trying
to be useful to anyone it will be the Tax Accountant’s
software.
As fantastic as AI’s (artificial intelligence) are (and I love
spell check); the AI (artificial intelligence) does not know
everything about everything. Someone has to be able to make a
decision, guide the transactions to the proper results.
Example – Home Depot receipts can include, material, supplies,
small tools, larger tools, plants, appliances, lumber, truck
rental. Construction Accountant knows how to classify these
receipts. In accounting, there is no such thing as a miscellaneous
expense.
Recommend contractor have a Home Depot and Lowes Accounts. In the
world of Construction Accounting Home Depot and Lowes revolving
accounts are a credit card account (no different than a Sear
account). The beauty of Home Depot and Lowes accounts when we setup
our document management programs for our clients – we will see the
transaction.
Going Green – Is more than
just saving paper. It saves time printing
documents, filing documents, owning multiple file cabinets, cases
of file boxes for when the file cabinet gets full. Buying hanging
folders, file folders, labels, envelopes, notebooks, tabs, and lots
of paper.
Every Contractor needs to keep some documents, in the electronic
age, spending hours and hours filing paper documents is no longer
necessary.
Highly Profitable Contractors
Embraced:
Paperless is
here to stay. The question is the quality of results received by
the Contractor is different between the software used from Free to
what may on the surface seem like a Low Monthly Cost. The low price
is not always the same as Good Value at a Reasonable Price
Point.
We embrace providing
Paperless Bookkeeping Services.
Many of our local clients who are close by choosing to send
documents electronically or by bank feeds. Every document that we
see automatically from the bank, credit card, primary supplier is
one less document The Contractor needs to handle.
We have experienced
Construction Accountants, and when we see a
document, we know what to do. Continue to develop ways to make
it easy for our clients to answer any document questions we have.
Always on the lookout for new cloud based software that will “Play
Well” with QuickBooks Software
We have been providing Paperless
Contractor Bookkeeping Services for a long
time and we continue to find ways to get the
work done with less burden on our Contractor clients. We no longer
need you to send documents.
We Regularly update our
QuickBooks Desktop Chart Of Accounts And Cost
Codes as we find enhancements that help us
help you. Construction Contractors want to Save Money and Make
Money – If we have an idea that will help; we are going to tell
you. Every time a Construction Contractor is over-handling a
document it costs money.
Construction Accounting is always, always about Being Green – It is
the Color of Money.
Looking forward to chatting as we continue to improve our
processes.
I trust this podcast helps you understand that outsourcing your contractor's bookkeeping services to us is about more than just “doing the bookkeeping”; it is about taking a holistic approach to your entire construction company and helping support you as a contractor and as a person.
We understand the good, bad and the ugly about owning and operating construction companies because we have had several of them and we sincerely care about you and your construction company!
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Thank you very much, and I hope you understand we do care about
you and all contractors regardless of whether or not you ever hire
our services.
Bye for now until our next episode here on the Contractors Success
MAP Podcast.
Enjoy your day.
Sharie
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Sharie DeHart, QPA is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood Washington. She is the leading expert in managing outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services companies and cash management accounting for small construction companies across the USA. She encourages Contractors and Construction Company Owners to stay current on their tax obligations and offers insights on how to manage the remaining cash flow to operate and grow their construction company sales and profits so they can put more money in the bank. http://www.fasteasyaccounting.com/sharie-dehart/ 206-361-3950 or sharie@fasteasyaccounting.com
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