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How To Avoid Year-End Construction Bookkeeping Chaos

Randal DeHart

As the year comes to a close, it's important to start thinking about your bookkeeping tasks to ensure a smooth transition into the new year. Have you given your bookkeeper, wife, partner), accountant or tax accountant, what information is needed to complete your reports?

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Bookkeeping Tips for Construction Businesses

Steve Feinberg

Running a construction business isn’t like running other goods or services-centered businesses. Shifting costs, increased liability, and a job-centric pricing model are just some of the major differences that make contracting a unique business—and unique businesses require a different approach to their bookkeeping.

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The Difference Between A Construction Accountant And A Tax Accountant

Randal DeHart

How often have you hired someone with the expectation that they know how construction works, and then you found out they did not know about it? You are a master in the construction industry, so you recognize what to look for in your particular field and quickly observe if someone has the skillsets, and you proceed accordingly.

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Practical Tax Season Tips For Construction Business Owners

Randal DeHart

Tax season can be a bit overwhelming for construction business owners, especially with many things to keep track of in our industry. We know that construction businesses have unique tax considerations that can be tricky to navigate, such as complex accounting and bookkeeping challenges and issues related to payroll and sales taxes.

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Los Angeles Business Bookkeeping Services – Choosing the right firm

MyIRSRelief

Bookkeeping is a very important part of any business and unless you have a dedicated department to handle yours, you should consider hiring an outside tax/accounting firm. As part of our research for this article we discovered many benefits of using a bookkeeping service and we included our top five reasons.

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How To Prevent Your Construction Company's Yearly Cycle Of Chaos

Randal DeHart

Most construction business owners who reach out to us describe this as their "Year End Madness" to prepare their documents for the tax accountant. The end of the year tends to be chaotic for construction company owners, but it's an excellent time to get some extra housekeeping done for your business.

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5 Reasons Offering Advisory Services Will Help You Escape the Accountant’s Trap

CPA Practice

In my role as CEO of The CFO Project , a community that helps accountants start and scale CFO/Advisory practices, I’ve noticed that many accounting and bookkeeping firm owners are stuck in what we call The Accountant’s Trap. So, how does an accountant escape this trap? tax, accounting, or bookkeeping).