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Tips for Working With Professional Construction Accounting Firms

Strategy Driven

A general bookkeeper or inexperienced CPA must address this. Developing deep domain expertise in the construction industry allows them to offer valuable value-added services like estimating and budgeting, project cost tracking, progress billing, and software implementation. ” and “What are your fees?”,

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Leaders Should Be (More) Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

He liked hiring young accountants (I happened to be a CPA at a large firm at the time) because of their bottom-line savvy and buttoned-down approach to looking at a business. Soon after I started it was budget season, and our field staff spent days and days and hours and hours preparing the best, and most realistic, budget they could.

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Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Terry Starbucker

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. I started as a CPA back in 1982, and was always pretty handy around a spreadsheet (even when they were just 12-column green pads).

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How I Made the Transition from the Corporate World To Ministry World

Ron Edmondson

I got it last week from a man who is a practicing CPA and a successful entrepreneur, but feels something is missing in his life. They paid me half our estimated budget and we raised the rest. It’s probably the question I get asked most often. Actually God mysteriously raised the rest from people we never asked for money.).

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Safeguarding Your Business Profits

Strategy Driven

Most importantly, your CPA should be more than just a number cruncher. A financial adviser can guide you through your investments and make recommendations to suit your needs and aversion to risk, which is preferable to trying to learn enough to make sound decisions by yourself.

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Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely

Terry Starbucker

He liked hiring young accountants (I happened to be a CPA at a large firm at the time) because of their bottom-line savvy and buttoned-down approach to looking at a business. People that could match his style of leadership: autocratic and one-way, with a large helping of fear. Did we hit that budget? Not good enough.

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Debbie Laskey's Expert Insights On Marketing and Leadership

Eric Jacobson

She’s created and implemented successful marketing and branding initiatives for nonprofits including the Foundation for the Junior Blind, Exceptional Children’s Foundation, League of Women Voters of Los Angeles, and Brides for Good; and in the B2B financial sector for an insurance company and CPA firm. Her website is www.brandingandmore.net.