You finish a $75,000 construction project in September. The customer doesn't pay until November.

So, which month did your company make $75,000?

September, when you completed the work? Or November, w...

How to Know If Your Construction Company Is Actually Making Money

Your construction company brought in $1.5 million last year. You're booked for the next three months, your crew is busy, and the phon...

By Karrie Jackson, CEO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

When I bought my first business at 24, I did almost everything myself. I told myself it was because I could not afford help. Looki...

By Katie Robinette, CFO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

A roofer once told me his business was profitable and broke at the same time and asked me to explain how both could be true.

The...

By Karrie Jackson, CEO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

A contractor called me in the spring and opened with, "I think I need a CFO." I asked what was happening. He said his books were n...

By Karrie Jackson, CEO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

I asked a diesel repair shop owner last year how he landed on his labor rate. He said other mechanics charge $115, so he charges $...

By Katie Robinette, CFO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

Somewhere around October, the equipment conversation starts. A dealer mentions writing the whole thing off this year. A buddy at ...

By Karrie Jackson, CEO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

Every February I get a version of the same phone call. A landscaper, four or five months past his last good invoice, asking whethe...

By Katie Robinette, CFO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

A roofer told me once that his whole crew was 1099. Six guys, all of them on his schedule five days a week, all riding in his tru...

By Karrie Jackson, CEO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

I bought my first business when I was 24. I spent that first year convinced that the answer to every problem was more work. More j...

By Katie Robinette, CFO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

An excavating contractor told me last spring that his mini excavator cost him $45 an hour to run. I asked how he got there. He sa...

By Katie Robinette, CFO and Cofounder, Evermore Accounting & Coaching

I get asked this more than almost any other question, and it usually comes in the same form. A roofer sits down across from me, p...