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Gross Profit

  • Business

    How to Accurately Price Change Orders

    Poorly priced change orders are one of the ways remodeling companies lose money.

    9 MIN READ
  • JLC BUILDER GUIDE

    A Smarter Way of Charging for Overhead and Profit

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  • Business

    Remodel Your Thinking

    12 MIN READ
  • Business

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    3 MIN READ
  • JLC

    How Do You Know You’re Making Money?

    9 MIN READ
    In accrual-basis accounting, you enter all of the two-step transactions, and these will be included on your financial reports.
  • Business

    How Do You Know You’re Making Money?

    9 MIN READ
    In accrual-basis accounting, you enter all of the two-step transactions, and these will be included on your financial reports.
  • Business

    Understanding Profit

    11 MIN READ
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    IBS 2019: Simple Financial Metrics Can Help Measure Business Success

    3 MIN READ
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    It’s Halftime – Is Your Business Winning or Losing?

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    Check Out These Book Recommendations from the Case Award Winner and Finalists

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    2 MIN READ
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    Building a True Team

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  • Business

    Big Remodelers’ Margins, Profits Are Up, NAHB Survey Finds

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    Plan Ahead for Labor Cost Increases

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    The Keys to Making Your Remodeling Business More Profitable

    8 MIN READ
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    Estimating: From Yellow Pad to Excel Spreadsheet

    7 MIN READ
    When an estimate is built in a spreadsheet, information such as burdened labor rate can be entered once and used in many calculations. It’s also easy to update totals when quantities or prices change. Free-form “Task Description” fields allow you to organize line items by phase, room by room, or in some other way that better suits the project.
  • Business

    Four Common Delusions Among Contractors

    4 MIN READ
    Risk goes up the more a job differs from a typical project. To calculate disaster potential, multiply the first three columns, then divide by the last two in succession.
  • Business

    Nothing but Net

    3 MIN READ
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  • Remodeling

    McCadden: Benchmarks, Unlike Yardsticks, Don’t Always Measure Up

    2 MIN READ
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    Should You Pursue Time and Materials Deals? No.

    3 MIN READ
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