This Podcast Is Episode Number 0100 And It Will
Be About Warning Signs You Have A Bad Bookkeeper In Your
Contracting Company
The Number One Warning
Sign You Have A Bad Bookkeeper Is
They
Panic When You
Say You Are Going
To Ask Us Review QuickBooks
It is amazing how many times over the years we have been called
in by contractors to clean up a horrific QuickBooks disaster caused
by the same bad bookkeepers.
There is a never ending supply of bad bookkeepers, cheap
bookkeepers and incompetent bookkeepers that move around the USA
including Alaska and Hawaii to infect and attempt to destroy
construction companies, home builders, commercial tenant
improvement contractors, handyman contractors, remodel contractors,
trade contractors, subcontractors, general contractors and more.
Every time it happens it feels like we are all living through a bad
movie script and everybody knows their lines and the bookkeeper
knows the scam is over and it is time to leave.
A word to the wise "If you think it may be time to fire your
bookkeeper you are already fifteen minutes too late! It is hard to
fire someone and it needs to be done properly. Unfortunately, we
know of dozens of contractors who never did and let the situation
deteriorate until they lost everything and filed bankruptcy.
Here Are The Warning Signs You Have A Bad
Bookkeeper In Your Contracting Company
- They talk down to you, uses "accounting speak," and try to make
you feel stupid when you ask a question
- They are consistently arrive late, rushed, and miss deadlines
without an explanation or apology
- They leave your office a mess (papers in a pile, unopened mail,
checks lying around that should be in the bank)
- They look sloppy or disheveled and dress in like they are on
vacation or something less desirable
- They don't explain your options for resolving a problem or
generating a report; it's basically their way or the highway
- They don't review QuickBooks on a consistent scheduled basis to
make sure everything is in working order
- They conduct personal business from your office when they are
supposed to be working on your projects
- They get defensive or argumentative when you ask about
financial reports or project costs
- They train contractors like an organ grinder trains a monkey,
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- They refuse to invest time and money in continuing education
because they know everything
- They are passive aggressive and will study you and your staff
to learn how to manipulate everyone
- They are masters at gaining power over you, your staff, and new
employees and outside suppliers
- They hate change and will fight tooth and nail to stop it or
they will destroy your company
- They know you're responsible for taxes, fines, penalties and
interest; so this is where they get even
- They know how to increase your quarterly tax return costs,
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- They understand that bookkeeping is 90% repetitive transactions
and 10% complex transactions
- They don't know what to do with complex transactions, so they
put them wherever they feel like
- They have side jobs working for other companies or an entire
bookkeeping business on the side
- They decide how much integrity, if any, your company has and
they tell everyone who will listen
- They create a miserable work environment causing turnover in
your staff which costs you money
- They make your customers and clients feel unwelcome and
unappreciated which costs you money
- They act as if they are serving time in jail and do the minimum
required to keep their job
- They say things to suggest businesses are bad and construction
company owners are the worst
- They are jealous of your success and even more so if they ever
had a failed construction business
- They don't learn anything new, whys should they, nobody is
reviewing the QuickBooks
- They never learn anything new unless the company pays for the
training and it is on the clock
- They quit when the tax return is being prepared because
QuickBooks is a mess and they're caught
- They come in a little bit late every morning and leave a little
bit early to make up for it
- They bait you with drama, nasty comments and minor actions to
find your tolerance limit
- They get even with you for every perceived injustice against
themselves and society as a whole
- They keep you busy with lots of mindless crap to divert
attention from why the books are a mess
- They let you think you are in control of the bookkeeping and
the bookkeeper until it is too late
- They make you think they are looking out the best interest of
the company, LOL!
- They let the work expand to fill whatever time you are willing
to pay them to get it done
- They become indispensable in order to take time off whenever
they please and hold you hostage
- They negotiates for additional perks, benefits, changes, and
elimination of personal accountability
- They network for a better job with your clients, suppliers,
vendors and your competitors
- They represent themselves to outsiders as the owner or manager
with decision making authority
- They text, message, e-mail, surf the web, chat on the phone and
socialize on company time
- They train you to leave them alone by getting upset or angry
whenever you want anything
- They work hard at causing just enough chaos so owner does not
earn more than the bookkeeper
- They live in a chaotic, neurotic, psychotic, selfish,
disorganized, blame game environment
- They work through lunch to leave earlier in the day (At the
office for 7 hours and get paid for 8)
- If Your Business Fails They Say "You Were Incompetent And They
Saw It Coming"
- When They Leave Expect To Hear: “Chaos, panic and disorder...my
work here is done!”
Question - What happens when the person
in control of QuickBooks is unhappy with you?
Answer - The same thing that happens when
the person who cooks your food is unhappy with you!
In The End - Bad Bookkeepers will leave you with unfiled and
unpaid taxes, gasping, upset, with tear stained checks, wide-eyed,
stupid, mouth open, standing in the middle of the highway of
business success staring at the remains of your business, crashed,
rolled over, upside down, in the ditch, on fire, with flames
belching from all sides with no hope in sight.
And then things get real ugly as you recall reading The General
Contractor And The River Of Construction Commerce and realize all
of this could have been avoided!
I have seen bad bookkeepers ruin too many businesses, especially
construction businesses. In most cases it was Bookkeeper
Incompetence or Bookkeeper Embezzlement and in other cases it
appears to me there may have been some deliberate identity theft;
however, I cannot be certain.
All I know for sure is that I have witnessed business failures
that have led to divorce, families destroyed, finances wiped out
and people living on the streets. In a few extreme cases I know of
contractors that have taken their own lives and it needs to
stop!
Replace Your Wealth Prevention Tool Before It Is
Too Late
Outsource Your Bookkeeping And If Not Us Find
Somebody ASAP!
I trust this podcast helps you understand that outsourcing your
contractors bookkeeping services to us is about more than just
“doing the bookkeeping”; it is about taking holistic approach to
your entire construction company and helping support you as a
contractor and as a person.
We Remove Contractor's Unique Paperwork
Frustrations
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!
That is all I have for now and if you have listened this far
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This is one more example of how Fast Easy
Accounting is helping construction company owners
across the USA including Alaska and Hawaii put more money in the
bank to operate and grow your construction company. Construction
accounting is not rocket science; it is a lot harder than that and
a lot more valuable to construction contractors like you so stop
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In closing, I want to caution you that we may or may not be a
good fit for your contracting company. This guide will help you
learn what to look for in outsourced construction accounting.
Thank you very much and I hope you understand
we really 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.
Warm Regards,
Randal DeHart | Contractors Accountant