Your Dashboard Is Not Your Accounting System

You’ve seen them – those trucks in Home Depot’s parking lot with a dashboard covered with receipts. One of the realities of owning a construction-related business is that you wear a lot of hats: salesperson, estimator, construction foreman, hands-on worker, HR manager, customer relationship manager, purchasing agent, and so forth.  If you also are your […]

Using Key Performance Indicators

Maybe you don’t think of yourself as numbers person. Maybe math was your least favorite subject in school. Maybe you hate spreadsheets. Unfortunately, if you own a business, you are a numbers person. Business is a numbers game, and companies live and die by their numbers. Don’t worry, though, working with numbers is not as […]