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Welcome to the QuickBooks® for Contractors blog!

The QuickBooks® for Contractors blog, is focused on providing short, simple articles and productivity tips to help you get the most out of QuickBooks® in your construction business!

The construction industry still requires an enormous amount of “paperwork” to keep track of everything, as a result, many contractors and/or their bookkeepers end up creating Excel spreadsheets – because Excel is quick and flexible; or they don’t know how to make a task happen in QuickBooks®.

As the business grows and changes, this results in an overwhelming amount of data that must be kept updated – located in different programs or locations – making it impossible to see the overall picture in one place.

Do you wonder if your QuickBooks® job costing reports are providing you with accurate information? Perhaps:

Your QuickBooks® Profit & Loss by Job reports only show a single dollar amount in Cost of Goods Sold and Payroll Expenses & you need/want more detail

78%

You want to track a lot of detail in your QuickBooks® Estimate for job costing purposes; but have customers who want so see only a summary invoice when you bill them

Your bookkeepers says “I don’t know how to make QuickBooks® show you more detail on job costing reports” or “QuickBooks® can’t do that”

85%

You are so frustrated and uncertain that you are spending hours updating complex Excel spreadsheets trying to get the job costing numbers you need – or worse yet, you are trying to keep it all in your head!

80%

You think that switching to a costly, constructions specific software MIGHT be the answer

53%

Wondering where all the cash is going?

And if all the job costs are being captured correctly is enough to baffle just about any construction business owner and some bookkeepers too! When the bottom-line profit from your construction business seems to be shrinking - it's a given that you need to take a close look at your books and get them into shape. Proper QuickBooks setup is the key for evaluating the financial health of your business. You need to know that the numbers you are looking at are accurate.

Some of the important topics we cover:

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Be a better bookkeeper

Stop wasting time manually creating Excel spreadsheets to track job costing. Learn to make QuickBooks WORK for you!

QuickBooks® & Certified Payroll

Creating certified payroll reports using QuickBooks® payroll information requires careful setup. You won’t find these tips in the QuickBooks® Help file.

QuickBooks® Payroll Tips

Payroll is one of the MOST critical pieces of your business and you need to get those payroll dollars into your QuickBooks® job costing reports!

QuickBooks® Setup & Cleanup

QuickBooks® provides a very basic Chart of Accounts and Items List for General Contractors and Specialty Trades – BUT it’s up to you to customize them.

QuickBooks® Job Costing

Money doesn’t grow on trees and neither does your profit on a construction project! Learn about QuickBooks job costing capabilities

Questions from our readers

Working with QuickBooks® can sometimes be SO FRUSTRATING. Especially when you are trying to do a specific task and can’t find any information on how to do it!

Articles from the blog

While these posts are old (and if you're wondering WHY there isn't any new content, read the post called "Someone literally stole our content!" below). The information is still accurate, the only thing that might be different is the way the QuickBooks screenshots look.

QuickBooks – Print function disabled for W2’s, 1099’s, etc.

January 2, 2017

A recent QuickBooks Payroll Update has caused the Print function to be disabled for W-2’s, 1099’s and all quarterly/year end reports. You can save them to PDF and then print them to your printer, but it’s an extra step and a PIA.

Someone literally stole our content!

November 3, 2016

What I absolutely detest is when one of these so-called “peers” comes to this site and copies word for word (right down to to the graphics/pictures I used) posts that I’ve put up here and put them on THEIR website and claiming it as their own content!

QuickBooks Desktop vs Intuit Online Payroll – Free Webinar

May 9, 2015

Join Nancy Smyth – Sunburst Software Solutions, Inc. and Kim Shannon – Off-Site Business Services on Wednesday, May 13, 2015 at 2 p.m. Eastern (1 p.m. Central) for a FREE 1-hour webinar discussing the payroll options available to Quickbooks users – Desktop vs Intuit Online Payroll.

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