Focus for Construction Contractors Focus is a core factor of business success Yet focus, simply for the sake of focus makes no sense. Because, let’s face it, focusing on a screen (be it large or small) is rather an easy accomplishment. Think TV viewing, social media, or electronic games. Or you could find yourself focusing on the daily minutia in the office or on the site and never on the growth of your construction contracting business. So yes, focus is core. Yet, when build

Trying to do it all Superman you’re not. KAPOW! Nor are you Wonder Woman. SNAP! So, as we say in our office, DWI (Deal With It.) We also say LIF (Life Isn’t Fair) but, that’s another story for another time. Now, we’ll concentrate on the fact that if your intention is to scale your business, you must have key employees and advisors in place in order to think strategically and focus on growth. From the back office, to the front office, to the shop, and in the field, having peop

When you first became a construction contractor or construction service business owner it was pretty simple – get a job, do the job, get paid, see how much money you made. Now, things are different. You have people working for you, people who rely on you in order to make a living. Knowing the whats, hows, and whys of construction accounting has become much more difficult. Following are 5 critical problems Schulte and Schulte solves for clients on a regular basis. Not knowing

You’ve already figured out that when you own a construction contracting or service business your world is colorful. Some of the myriad of “things” on your mind are job sites, retainage, percentage completed, purchase orders, prevailing-wage rates, payroll, change orders, subcontracts, AIA billings, and equipment usage. But did you know about the contractor’s friend called Job Costing? Did you know job costing is really designed to make all the above “things” take their rightf

In this monthly post, it’s my pleasure to introduce you to one of the many apps that we at Schulte and Schulte endorse and recommend to our customers. As a firm of construction accounting specialists, we love to help companies in the construction industry with their books and finances, part of that help is finding different apps or software that can help our clients out.  During this monthly feature, we take a look at several apps that we love at Schulte and Schulte, LLC, and

Tonya Schulte, one of our founders, will be attending Scaling New Heights 2017, in Orlando, Florida June fourth through the seventh. I tracked her down and got her to answer a few questions about the event and what part she will have in it. Yvonne: Tonya, when did you first hear about the Scaling New Heights 2017 convention which is taking place in Orlando, Florida this year? And what is it about this event that sets it apart? Tonya: Since this is an annual event, it has been

Fitting together the pieces of organized office processes When you think of office processes, what comes to mind? Do you jump immediately to thoughts of your desk, your computer? Are you concerned with “how things get done?” Do you think of your vehicles? Well, good physical office processes have to do with all of the above and a little bit more. What is meant by “office processes”? An easy way to understand office processes is to think of a simple mathematical equation. Spac

You’ve probably heard the expression, “Eat the frog,” meaning get the most awful task of your day done first thing in the morning and everything else will be much easier to accomplish after that point. You may have seen something like this, “Mark Twain said, ‘Eat a live frog first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.’” Well, it seems while there may indeed be good reason to take up your own personal ugly frog and begin munching first

I’ve discovered Construction Contractors and Subcontractors are among the most adept and proficient folks around. They wear such a profusion of hats (skilled tradesman, project manager, marketer, salesman, HR manager, supply-chain manager, customer-service representative, PR manager) it can be mind boggling. Yet there are 10 Personal Tools they need to use no matter which hat they happen to be wearing at any given time. The quality traits (tools) of excellent construction con