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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. This is known as job costing.

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How the best differ from the rest PART II

Six Disciplines

Such organizations have developed a culture that figures out ways to deploy technology, not for technology’s sake, but to better serve their strategy. Ill-defined projects are a guaranteed formula for failure. Underlying this rating is the greater use of long-term technology plans aimed at delivering competitive advantage.

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What to Do When a “Devil’s Advocate” Tries to Derail Your Project

Harvard Business Review

Devil’s advocates tend to pop up just when a project is about to launch. Champions of the project are often blindsided, fumbling for a defense of what they thought was obvious. Champions of the project are often blindsided, fumbling for a defense of what they thought was obvious. How do you disarm a devil’s advocate?

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The 2 Leadership Traits That Will Set You Apart (and Sustain You For The Long Haul)

Terry Starbucker

After all, I had earned it, having just finished a 28 year run as a CPA, cable company VP of Operations, football stadium project manager, VP of Development for another cable company, and finally, a cable company SVP of Operations. Yep, semi-retirement just didn’t take. Thankfully.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Business students have traditionally considered net present value, payback period, and hurdle rates as necessary tools to determine which project to select. Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I adore my CPA and bookkeeper and we strive to be generous with what we have. Sandip Roy of Happiness India Project.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

” The bottom line is that most people don’t want to be “sold” by an ad anymore; they want to develop a relationship where a business earns their purchase by offering invaluable content. They offer strategies like content development, email marketing, creative and branding, and more.

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