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QuickBooks Tips - Contractor Needs - Part 3

Gerry has overhead costs, employees, specialized equipment, company vehicles, materials, subcontractors, retainage, percentage of completion billing, and more that he needs to take into consideration when estimating. He works mostly on prevailing wage jobs, where he has to pay his employees a much higher rate of pay plus fringe benefits with a few private jobs – he isn’t a union shop; so he is paying the prevailing wage fringe benefits in cash to his employees. Billing requirements for his jobs include Time & Materials and Percentage of Completion, where he needs to submit AIA billing forms and track retainage that he is owed and retainage he owes his [Read the full article...]

QuickBooks Tips - Contractor Needs Part 2

Sam Subcontractor already uses QuickBooks, he has more complex job costing needs due to certified payroll reporting requirements, payments of prevailing wage fringe benefits and AIA billing.  High overhead costs,  specialized equipment, materials, labor charges are other things that must be taken into consideration.

QuickBooks Estimating, Job Costing, and payroll  needs will vary depending on [Read the full article...]

U. S. Department of Labor Revises Certified Payroll Reporting Requirements for Form WH-347

The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 established into law the requirement for paying “prevailing wages”; a specific rate of pay plus fringe benefits for each trade/work classification that has been set by the Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division, on federal or federally-assisted construction projects exceeding a value of $2,000.00. Construction includes the alteration and/or repair, including painting, decorating, plumbing, electrical, etc., of public buildings or public works – including roads and [Read the full article...]

Government stimulus projects include prevailing wage requirements

The economic-stimulus package requires that workers on projects funded by the package receive “prevailing wages.” Prevailing wages are similar to union wages and are typically higher than average wages in a county. The provision concerns some contractors who say it will drive up the cost of stimulus projects. However, labor groups support the prevailing wage provision and say higher wages will help the economy. Prevailing wage provisions require the submission of certified payroll [Read the full article...]