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Is your construction software working for you?

Is your construction software working for you?

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 […]

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The New Revenue Recognition Guidance: Key Points To Consider

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 […]

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Update-new rules being discussed for classification of debt

Update: New Rules Being Discussed For Classification Of Debt

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 […]

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Daily vs. Hourly Equipment Rates: which should you charge?

Daily vs. Hourly Equipment Rates: Which Should You Charge?

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, […]

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Improve Cash Flow By Deferring Taxes On The Sale Of Equipment

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 […]

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Top Six Accounting Errors Construction Companies Make

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, […]

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The #1 Issue Facing Construction Companies in 2017

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 […]

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The New Lease Accounting Standard: What you can do now

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 […]

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Webinars

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QuickBooks Desktop No Longer Available for New Subscriptions after July 2024

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 […]

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Blue & Co. Offers Expertise to Organizations Affected by QuickBooks Point of Sale Discontinuation

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 […]

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Vsimple and Hearn Construction Workflow Management Webinar

On-Demand Webinar: Vsimple Success Stories – Hearn Construction

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 […]

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Case Study: Normalization Adjustments and the COVID-19 Pandemic

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 […]

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Case Study: Construction Acquisitions Gone Awry – a Quality of Earnings Story

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 […]

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Understanding the Need for a Quality of Earnings Report in a Transaction

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, […]

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