Get back to good estimating and job costing to offer accurate pricing on your jobs.
QuickBooks expert Diane Gilson explains how remodelers can assign warranty costs after a job has been closed out.
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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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This Q&A with Big50 remodelers asks how the economy affects their pricing and bidding.
Tips for helping remodelers avoid the hit when prices spike and shortages loom.
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By tracking the actual and budgeted costs of individual line items for each job, Creative Contracting is able to easily pinpoint slippage.
Including Clean Up Costs in the Project Budget
Many remodelers rely on a single project manager for each job, concentrating the decision-making power and supervisory duties with that one individual. But what about when a project is so large or multifaceted that there just aren’t enough hours in the day for one person to accomplish the task?
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Industry consultant Leslie Shiner shares tips on how to add labor burden into your employees' hourly rates.
Over the years I’ve asked clients and colleagues how they estimate labor costs. The answer is usually the same: They define one number that represents hourly labor costs, including burden, and apply it throughout their estimates, no matter who does the work or what the tasks are.