Contractor BookkeepingIn Ten Minutes A Day
See how easy it is to do your bookkeeping with QuickBooks and discover the secrets to a proper construction accounting system.
Enroll in courseNote: This is a drip course. The modules are delivered according to a time-based schedule, and spacing varies within the lessons.
Proper Bookkeeping
Get rid of your paperwork frustrations and overwhelming tasks by building a process to collect, organize, and retain your financial documents.
Get Caught Up
Stop playing catch-up with your bookkeeping system. Keep up to date with your records, reconcile accounts, and make sure you put entries in the right place.
Fast And Easy
Focus on the day-to-day operations of your business, record relevant financial transactions, and streamline the time and effort you spend on data entry.
Accurate Bookkeeping Matters
Your construction company's financial health relies on correctly recorded transactions and data.
A proper bookkeeping system can help you stay on top of your debts, figure out where your profits and losses are coming from, prepare you for tax season, and brace your company for potential growth.
Construction Accounting Vs. Regular Accounting
Learn the necessary principles particular to your industry and the importance of understanding the difference between other types of accounting.
Identify When It Is "Income"
With proper tracking of income and expenses, recognize when it is income after the money comes into your business and find out how to record income in your bookkeeping system.
Save Time With Vendor Prefills
Preset default ledger accounts for your vendors to ensure that the payments you make to them go to the correct accounts. QuickBooks automatically recall information and prefills it for you.
Key Takeaways
Discover insightful lessons with each indicator, gain actionable tips for your bookkeeping processes, and pick up strategies to overcome the challenges of keeping your accounts up to date.
After taking two college weekend classes to learn QuickBooks for our company's accounting needs and NOT getting my specific questions answered, I attended a QuickBooks seminar run by Randal and quickly learned that he had the help and answers I needed.As a wife doing the books part-time, I am very thankful for his help and insight for our company's precise needs.
Everett, WA
What You'll Learn
Having access to the best available tools and information is a vital aspect of almost any operation, but especially crucial in the competitive construction and home service industry. Upon completing this course, you will be able to:
Understand
the difference between Construction Accounting and Regular Accounting.
Discuss
the value of good construction bookkeeping and a properly set up Chart of Accounts.
Identify
when it is income and keep track of the money going in and out of your company.
Record
earned revenue and identify Cost of Goods Sold and Expense Accounts.
Master
Chart of Accounts for faster data entry and update your QB desktop using our template.
Calculate
the difference between Profit and Loss and set up the report in a push of a button.
Fast Easy Accounting helped us better organized and make sense of our QuickBooks file.Sharie was always available to answer any questions that I had about payroll or business taxes, and shared her knowledge and experiences willingly. They helped keep us up-to-date with our bookkeeping and offered our company an efficient way to stay on track. Thank you!
BONUSES
We got you covered! As part of recognizing your time and effort in finishing the class, you will have access to some of our best sought-after services:
Installation of The Five Key Performance Indicators on your QuickBooks Desktop icon bar (QBD Software 2014 or later).
A comprehensive PDF report on the financial health of your company plus
Forms, Templates, and QuickBooks Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts to streamline your tasks and improve your productivity.
I found your Change Order How-To video on YouTube and really like how you have it set up and appreciate the pointers you had to offer.Because I am tired of these customers constantly changing stuff on us and creating delays or extra work. I need to start being compensated for my time, but want to make sure I am doing it the right way. Thank you for your assistance.
Who will benefit from this course
This class addresses accounting fundamentals for a construction business.
Who is this course for?
This course is for contractors, accountants, bookkeepers, administrators, and business professionals in the construction and home service industry, who are using QuickBooks Desktop as their primary accounting software. And whose business is within $0 and $5,00,000 in annual sales. No prerequisites or advanced lessons required.
We developed a comprehensive bookkeeping system and added useful content to QuickBooks to make it work for owners and employees in the construction industry.
Who is this course NOT for?
This course is NOT for construction industry professionals who are using accounting software other than QuickBooks Desktop or whose business earns more than $5,000,000 annually. There is a lot more detail and depth to be considered for larger contractors.
This course pays specific attention to the unique aspects of construction accounting that are not dealt with in other industries. If you are not a contractor, accountant, administrator, or business professional in the construction and home service industry, then this course is not for you.
Randal DeHart
Randal is the co-founder of Business Consulting And Accounting in Lynnwood, Washington.He is the leading expert in outsourced construction bookkeeping and accounting services for small construction companies across the USA. He is experienced as a Contractor, Project Management Professional, Construction Accountant, Intuit ProAdvisor, QuickBooks For Contractors Expert and Xero Accounting Specialist.
This combination of experience and skill sets provides a unique perspective which allows him to see the world through the eyes of a contractor, Project Manager, Accountant, and construction accountant.
This quadruple understanding is what sets him apart from other Intuit ProAdvisors and Xero accountants to the benefit of all of the construction contractors he serves. Visit our website for more information.
He Is A Certified PMP (Project Management Professional) with several years of construction project management experience. His expertise is construction accounting systems engineering and process development.
His exhaustive study of several leading experts including the work of Dr. W. Edward Deming, Michael Gerber, Walter A. Shewhart, James Lewis and dozens of others was the foundation upon which our Construction Bookkeeping System is based and continues to evolve and improve. Check out our Contractor Success Map Podcast on iTunes