How I Bid Franchise Projects Accurately With APARBooks
I'm Jeffery, a construction estimator with more than 10 years in the trade. Most of our customers are…
How Construction Accounting Differs From Regular Accounting
Construction accounting works differently from regular business accounting. Every project has its own budget, revenue, and expenses, timelines…
A $50,000 Formula Error in a $1.5M Construction Bid
Riverside Contracting built its bids in Excel. One bid on a $1.5 million project came out $50,000 low…
Why Project Cost Forecasts Miss Without Historical Data
Greenfield Construction's project managers forecast costs from rough estimates and memory because past project data lived nowhere they…
How a GC Stopped Losing Permit Fee Reimbursements
We pay permit fees upfront to keep projects moving and bill the client for them later. With permits…
Fixing Duplicate Expense Entries That Ate 2 Hours a Day
Duplicate expense entries started small on my project, an extra payment here and there. Then I was spending…
How Duplicate Payments Cost Us $168,000 in Profit
A $78,500 drywall invoice got paid but never recorded. Three weeks later the subcontractor called about the “unpaid”…
Tracking Bills and Payments Across Multiple Projects
Tracking one subcontract is simple. Tracking a dozen bills from the same subcontractor across four projects, some of…