Just click on the following links to learn more about construction accounting training classes and related job cost accounting support products…
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QuickBooks Job-Cost Accounting Training Workshops
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Online QuickBooks training:
Workshops on specific accounting, job-cost and management reporting topics
Whether you’re a bookkeeper, business owner, experienced accountant, or you’ve just been ‘drafted’ into handling the company books, you CAN become a QuickBooks job-cost accounting expert! Diane Gilson shares years of job-cost and QuickBooks experience, training, and business coaching insights. Choose from more than 60 reasonably-priced individual classes that you can use to jump-start, upgrade, or master your job-cost accounting system.
Day or night, from the convenience of your home or office, you can learn how to turn your accounting system into a powerhouse of critical management information. Discover how to get to the numbers, and create the reports that can make a REAL difference in your financial results! More…
CAMP = Construction Accounting & Management Program
CAMP subscription
Is your company losing out because you’re not taking advantage of the many advanced features hidden within QuickBooks or Enterprise Solutions? Want to learn how to perform more extensive report customization? Is it tough to get month-end closings and reporting completed? Are reports not totally accurate, or do results frequently shift around? If so, you’ll love this training and coaching series…
Take individual workshops as described above, or access them ALL (more than 60 workshops currently available) as a member of the Construction Accounting & Management Program. More…
Qlean$tart® Accounting Solutions (accounting support products)
- eCPA – employee Cost and Pricing Analyzer™
→ Tools to convert Labor Burden to Profits
Use our proprietary solution to calculate regular and overtime Labor Burden and employee billing rates. With actual, fully-burdened labor costs for each employee (per year, hour or minute), the analyzer helps you compute exactly what you should charge per hour, per employee to achieve your desired profit on labor. More…
- eCPA video
→ See exactly how the eCPA works and how you can determine profitable labor rates
(includes audio – please use speakers or headset) Video…
Percentage of Completion Analyzer™
→ Compute and adjust to see true job profitability for longer term contracts
Don’t rely on guesstimates from job-site supervisors!
Instead, use this tool to easily perform background math calculations and prepare accurate bookkeeping entries to periodically adjust income for longer-term contracts. Includes sample calculations and an overview of “Percentage of Completion” concepts. More…
Month-end Procedures
→ Accurate, on-time reports. Each and every month…
These month-end closing, proofing, and balancing procedures immediately improve the quality of your financial data.
This system gives you the tools to review, self-correct, and protect your monthly accounting records and job cost reports, while also providing a date-driven checklist. Now you’ll have a system to help you meet those monthly reporting deadlines! More…
35-Point Checkup
→ Prepare your financial system for a clean bill of health!
We check and report on more than 35 of the most critical structural and financial components within your current QuickBooks file.
Our goal is to get you on track and let you see what needs to be done in order to get the most out of your management accounting system. More…
AccountingPRO™ (QuickBooks file template for construction companies)
→ Save time – Get it right
Need a clean start?
AccountingPRO™ is a flexible, pre-built QuickBooks data file created by Info Plus to meet specific needs of the construction industry. It helps business owners or their accountants quickly and effectively use the powerful, advanced capabilities of QuickBooks. More…
The Cost of Chaos™ Analyzer
→ “A little here, a little there… Pretty soon you’re talking big money”
Use your own financial results to estimate and measure the impact of “invisible” costs and lost income. Then, project the financial benefit of a series of small (yet potentially effective) improvements to your financial, operating, and accounting controls.
Decide for yourself: “Is an investment in tighter controls and better financial info going to have a favorable impact on your bottom line?” More…
- Passkeyper™ Tool Kit
→ Overwhelmed with user names, security codes and passwords?
PassKeyper ToolKit easily manages and organizes passwords, account numbers, user IDs, confirmation numbers, customer service numbers, expiration dates, security codes, payment lead-times, and personal notes. Track bank accounts, credit cards, computers, customers, vendors, web sites, maintenance agreements, security systems, prescriptions … and more! More…
- Cleancut Time$heets™ – English + Spanish version
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Cleancut Time$heets™ - English-only version More…
→ Regardless of Language,…Accurate Time Reporting = Better Job Cost Reports
Job costing requires employees to accurately record time and activities spent on various jobs. Originally designed as a solution for one of our construction clients with Spanish-speaking employees, this set of Excel-based time sheet templates provides varied layouts, streamlines data entry, and is easily customized.
…..English + Spanish construction terms included. More…
…..English only version. More…
Recorded Online Training
– Save Money & Learn At Your Convenience –
Class #0100: Overview of Construction Accounting Systems
→ Need help with your accounting and management reporting systems?
The increasing power of technology has inspired many businesses to bring their accounting systems in-house. Doing so, however, presents a variety of financial and accounting system design and management issues. This foundation class helps business owners and back office staff address common questions and resolve a variety of job-cost, industry-specific, and management accounting issues.
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Class #0200: Management Reporting Needs
(Using management accounting reports to improve your bottom line)
→ Are you missing vital construction company management and/or job-cost reports?
The ability to understand and effectively use key management accounting reports is critical to running a successful business. This class focuses on seven specific reports you can use to control and increase your bottom line. We’ll help you explore and understand how the Top 10 structural components in QuickBooks are used to build these crucial management accounting reports.
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Class #0300: QuickBooks Tips & Techniques – Part I
→ Is a bad system design sabotaging your hard work and best efforts?
Based on years of experience in both QuickBooks and construction industry accounting, we share 26 ways to correctly establish and use four of the major structural components in QuickBooks. You’ll learn how to use these 4 Lists to help build a system that’s exactly right for your business.
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Class #0400: QuickBooks Tips & Techniques – Part 2
→ Wish you had an expert at hand to share a boatload of behind-the-scenes insights and work-arounds?
26 more ways to optimize a fully-functional management accounting system! Based on years of experience in QuickBooks and Enterprise Solutions, including extensive work in construction industry accounting, Info Plus President Diane Gilson shares additional insights for using four additional structural systems.
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Class #0500: QuickBooks File Preferences→ Are you missing out on features because they’re not set up the right way? Or they’re not even turned on?
Many users never realize the QuickBooks Company File Preferences has 18 topic areas and more than 120 background settings. By understanding these options, you’ll establish Company Preferences most valuable to your company’s financial, operating and reporting needs…
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Online Training Combo 5-Pack (Best Value)
→ Need to get up and running right away? Want to tie it all together? Looking for the best pricing?
Purchase all 5 of the above value-packed QuickBooks online training courses for less than the price of 3! Clients who design and construct their information system based on the integrated approach revealed in the 5-pack sequence are much more effective in managing their overall accounting system.
These 5 hours of intensive training will build your skills and help you establish the management accounting system and reports you need. More…
Reference Resources
Book: Accounting with QuickBooks for Home Builders & Remodelers
Been fighting with QuickBooks for a while? Looking for a soup-to-nuts walk-through? This comprehensive manual (360+ pages in digital format) includes:
→ 153 charts, reports and screen shots illustrating features, critical decision-points, and processes
→ Step-by-step instructions for entering transactions
→ More than 150 highlighted TIPS and NOTES
→ Addendum of the most beneficial enhancements recently implemented in QuickBooks products
→ 3 extensive Appendices illustrating a residential construction Chart of Accounts, an extensive job-stage based Item List, and month-end proofing, balancing, and closing procedures
→ And much, much more!
Other useful products
Learn more about other products that Diane regularly recommends…
Transaction Pro Import Wizard 5.0 (from BayState Consulting)
Want an easy way to import your transactions or lists into QuickBooks? The Transaction Pro Importer is the solution you’ve been looking for. Wizard interface provides simple step-by-step instructions and field-level mapping of your data. Quickly import data from virtually any source as QuickBooks transactions or lists. Automatically adds new customers, vendors, jobs, items, and classes when importing transactions. Supports Excel, Access, databases or comma, tab, and pipe delimited text formats. Edit existing data before exporting to QuickBooks in program grid. For detailed info on exactly what transactions and lists can be imported click on Transaction Pro Import Wizard 5.0 (from BayState Consulting)
