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Cabinet Shop Estimating: What an Hour in Your Shop Actually Costs
Most cabinet shops price by the box or the linear foot and hope overhead is covered. Here is how to calculate what a productive shop hour really costs, set a markup that hits your target profit, and build the Mozaik-to-JobTread workflow that proves whether the estimate held.
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Why Growing Contractors Run Short on Cash: Overbilling, Underbilling, and Retainage
Revenue is up sharply over last year. The backlog is strong. The crews are busy. And there is less cash in the operating account than there was twelve months ago, with no obvious reason why. This is the most common cash problem in contracting, and it hits good operators hardest. Nothing is being stolen. No…
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Looking for a New CPA for Your Construction Business in Oklahoma? Here’s What to Look For
Oklahoma & Regional If you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance your current CPA relationship isn’t working the way you need it to. Maybe you only hear from your accountant during tax season. Maybe you’re the one telling them how the business is doing, instead of the other way around. Maybe you’ve never once been…
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Cash Basis vs. Accrual Accounting for Builders: Which One Should You Use?
Construction Accounting Basics Your P&L says you made $180,000 this year. Your bank account doesn’t agree. If you’ve ever stared at those two numbers wondering which one is lying to you, the answer isn’t a bookkeeping error — it’s the accounting method behind them. Cash basis and accrual basis tell two different stories about the…
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Job Costing 101: How to Know Which Jobs Are Actually Profitable
Construction Accounting Basics Ask most builders which job made the most money last year, and you’ll get a guess based on gut feel — not a number pulled from the books. That gap is job costing, and it’s the difference between running a business that happens to be profitable and one that knows exactly why.…
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Markup Isn’t Margin: The Overhead Blind Spot That’s Underpricing Your Jobs
Most custom builders price with a flat markup and assume it covers overhead. It usually doesn’t. Here’s the math to find your real overhead-loaded markup — and why it changes as job volume shifts.
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What Is a WIP Schedule — and Why Every Custom Builder Needs One
Construction Accounting Basics If you’ve ever handed your bank a financial statement and gotten a follow-up question you couldn’t quite answer, there’s a good chance the missing piece was a WIP schedule. A work-in-progress (WIP) schedule is the single report that tells you — and anyone else looking at your business — whether your open…