As a contractor, you need to know the how and why of your business; where and how you are making money is not always easy to pinpoint. Although job costing is essential for answering these… Read More »The essential guide to construction job costing
As a contractor in the construction industry, you know that job costing is important (and that’s putting it lightly). Accurate job costing is how you determine if your company is making a profit from the… Read More »The impact of construction overhead costs on profit
When it comes to job costing vs process costing, contractors may wonder which cost accounting system or costing method is best for their business. Both enable better decision-making and help keep a close eye on… Read More »Job costing vs process costing
How do you know whether it’s time to move your accounting software to the cloud? These growing pains may indicate that it’s time to move from QuickBooks Desktop accounting software to QuickBooks Online. QuickBooks Desktop… Read More »Outgrowing desktop software: Time to go to the cloud with QuickBooks Online + Knowify
Business people who work consistently on fixed-priced contracts learn early on that the profitability of their business depends on two things: the quality of their job costing analyses and their project management/execution. Surely Microsoft helped… Read More »Project costing and tracking – Two things that belong together!
This question (in its many flavors) is one we encounter quite frequently at Knowify. We know from experience that accountants can have pretty strong opinions about this question, but we’re also not afraid to share… Read More »Should I include overhead in my job cost?
QuickBooks Online has an awesome feature that can automatically load your Credit Card transactions into your QBO account. Knowify has an awesome feature that can automatically load your QBO transactions into your jobs. Put the… Read More »Pulling credit card transactions into Knowify from QuickBooks Online
Our version 2.16 has been released 2 weeks ahead of schedule! This is the complete change log. Labor budgets can now be expressed as dollar values at the phase level rather than as man hours… Read More »Release 2.16 – Change log
Tracking labor time is an essential process for most construction companies, whether for payroll, measuring job progress or time and material billing. At Knowify, we’ve seen all sorts of outdated methods for tracking time: from… Read More »Tracking time efficiently from the jobsite
Yum! Bacon and business intelligence—it’s a contractor’s dream. Are you going to the Intuit/QuickBooks Scaling New Heights “Epic Practice” Conference in the Bahamas May 21-25th? If you are, let’s meet at the Knowify QB Integrated… Read More »Job costing – How do you strike the right balance between data entry and business intelligence?