Job Costing

Labor Burden

  • Bruce Case

    To Hire or Not to Hire?

    Calculate the total cost of hiring new staff before you make your move to increase the size of your team.

     
  • Business How-To: Preparing an Operating Budget

    A step-by-step guide for creating an outline budget or an itemized budget, depending on your company's size and complexity.

     
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    Flexible Pricing: Pricing Strategies in Today's Economy

    Lump-sum pricing focuses on costs and can make it difficult to explain pricing to clients. In today's competitive market, consider the alternative: flexible pricing.

     
  • Exaktime PocketClock/GPS

    BlackBerry-bound supervisors will appreciate the new PocketClock/GPS time clock and management tool for the smartphone.

     
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    Pricing Remodeling Jobs Just Right

    Get back to good estimating and job costing to offer accurate pricing on your jobs.

     
  • Cutting Costs

    By now your 2009 budget should be nearly complete — how does it look? Are you making the money you, as owner, need to make?

     
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    Business Planning Pays Off

    Being "too busy to plan" and map out strategies to rework structural shortcomings within your business will see you paying the consequences for a long time to come.

     
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    Estimating a Project

    Can you explain what costs should be included when estimating a project and what percent I should be using for markup? And should I mark up smaller jobs more than large jobs?

     
  • Opening the Books, Fortifying the Bottom Line

    Don’t be afraid of open-book management, says one remodeler whose profits, productivity, and staff cohesiveness are stronger as a result of showing his employees the numbers – right down to his own compensation.

     
  • Finding Employees’ Hidden Costs

    Industry consultant Leslie Shiner shares tips on how to add labor burden into your employees' hourly rates.

     

Slippage

 

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