Air Entrainment

There are basic differences between cash and accrual accounting.  Here’s a quick review...

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Grouser

Let’s run through an example. Let’s do an example so you see some of the challenges. Let’s take one cost code in your budget – let’s look at roadway subgrade. Below we have the budget for this cost. You can see the cost code is “1001” and there are five cost components of this cost code: labor, equipment, consumable material, permanent material, and subcontractor cost. This can be viewed in the columns from “Cost Code” to “Budget($)”.

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Escalation

Executive summary. An accurate job cost projection is vital to Company survival. And it’s not too complicated if you know the budget, the timing of your costs, and can do a little bit of estimating. It’s NOT about blindly relying on quantities completed!

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Serial Letter

Field overhead carries different names with different contractors and owners. Discussed here is what field overhead is, and why it’s important for owners to understand.

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Order of Precedence

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