With job-cost accounting, estimators now have the tools to make intelligent adjustments and get an A+ on every bid. Job-cost accounting provides contractors with the ability to track actual costs ...

Accurate time tracking is critical to managing labor costs in order to achieve profitability for construction businesses, separating successful businesses from the rest of the pack. If labor costs ...

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Would you enjoy watching a professional golf tournament if the players didn’t keep score? Or could you be a great football coach if you didn’t know the score or player statistics during the game? Or ...

The ProContractorMX™ version 2.5 offers new capabilities for project execution. An all-in-one construction management solution, ProContractorMX provides end-to-end control from takeoff and estimating ...

Many contractors don’t know their exact job costs, equipment costs, overhead budget and how much profit they should make. Without an understanding of your numbers, working hard in a financial vacuum ...

CAUTION: Some very bright consulting guys are touting Activity-Based Costing (ABC) for printing. Ten or 15 years earlier one of the top accounting firms was urging ABC for printers. Two years or so ...

We've never seriously considered process costing for printing, have we? All we know is job cost accounting. That's our business model—our security blanket. We see our business as the sum total of a ...