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Many start-up contractors buy inexpensive and easy-to-use software to provide the information they need to meet their accounting and tax requirements. Unfortunately, they often do not consider that they should […]
Update published on June 5, 2020: FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2020-05, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606) and Leases (ASC 842) Effective Dates for Certain Entities, as part of […]
by Larry Steinberg, Senior Manager The Financial Accounting Standards Board is presently considering adoption of new rules regarding classification of debt, and these new rules could have a significant impact […]
Are you a contractor that accounts for equipment costs? Are these costs charged to jobs? For equipment-intensive contractors, these are very important questions. If you do account for equipment costs, […]
Many people are aware that you can utilize an IRC Sec. 1031 (“like-kind”) exchange to defer gain on a real estate transaction, but an often-overlooked planning opportunity is to utilize […]
Financial statements are both a tool used to manage a business and a required deliverable for a lender or bonding company. All construction company owners have to deal with them, […]
An update to this article was published in 2019. Read it here. When we talk to construction company clients and ask them how it’s going, many of them say, “we […]
Update published on June 5, 2020: FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2020-05, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (ASC 606) and Leases (ASC 842) Effective Dates for Certain Entities, as part of […]
Webinars
By Nancy Orben, CPA, Senior Manager at Blue & Co. Intuit has announced an official cutoff date for new purchases of QuickBooks Desktop. How does this effect you? If your […]
By Nancy Orben, CPA, Senior Manager, Laura Philpot, Senior Accountant, Business Services, and Lisa Totten, Senior Accounting Specialist at Blue & Co. Is your business feeling the impact of Intuit’s […]
Blue & Co. and Vsimple hosted a webinar on Tuesday, December 6, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. EST entitled Workflow Management: How Hearn Construction is Standardizing & Simplifying Their […]
By: Damien Strohmier, Senior Manager, CPA, CCIFP Normalization adjustments are those adjustments to EBITDA that remove non-recurring income and/or expenses related to one-time or extraordinary events in order to present […]
By: Damien Strohmier, Senior Manager, CPA, CCIFP Failed transactions can happen for a variety of reasons. This article explains one potential reason for a failure, which is the inherent risk […]
By: Damien Strohmier, Senior Manager, CPA, CCIFP Dealing in the transaction market space requires a deep understanding of various terms and acronyms that are commonplace when discussing a potential sale, […]