How One Contractor Fixed His Accounts Payable Blind Spots
When Mark Wilson, owner of a mid-sized commercial construction firm, found his $4.2 million hospital renovation was hemorrhaging…
Change Order Chaos: A Project Manager's Story
Sarah is a project manager at a busy construction company in Texas. Her team was deep into a…
Checking Preliminary Lien Notices Before Cutting a Check
I do the accounting at Inland Construction, a general contractor doing single-family homes, ADUs, and remodels in the…
A $10K Math Mistake on an AIA Payment Application
I'm Sarah, the accountant for our family construction business. My husband runs the sites; I handle billing and…
8 Hours to 10 Minutes: An Accountant's Paperwork Story
I left my last construction accounting job because of the paperwork. My boss would ask for a subcontractor's…
“I Finally Know How Much I Earn From a Project”
I'm David, and I started using APARBooks last year. The real change is that I now know exactly…
Cutting $10,000 a Year in Disconnected Software
QuickBooks for accounting. A second app for project management. A third for invoicing and vendors. A fourth for…
When Every Project Form Has a Different Format
At Ridgeway Builders, every project generated estimates, invoices, change orders, lien waivers, and payment applications in different formats,…
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…