CONSTRUCTION FINANCE LIBRARY
Deep dives on profit, cash, backlog, and finance systems for single and family-owned construction companies.
A Fractional CFO is the one seat in your construction business whose entire job is what happens next: cash, margins, bonding, and the decisions your bookkeeper, CPA, and controller...
More profitable contractors go out of business from cash flow problems than from bad work.
It's Wednesday at 6:47 PM. The owner of a $22M civil contractor is sitting in his truck in the office parking lot, scrolling his bank app for the third time today.
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We had a Monthly Strategy Call last fall with a $34M commercial GC. He was tracking backlog the way most owners do: one number, on a sticky note, updated whenever he remembered.
It's Thursday afternoon on a $4M commercial reno. The owner-side PM walks the job with the GC's superintendent and points to a wall.
The construction industry averages 5-6% net profit. Top-quartile contractors hit 10-12%. That gap, five points on every dollar, is the difference between a business that funds grow...
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A $24M commercial GC owner walked into our second monthly Strategy Call with a question that catches most contractors off guard.
We had a Monthly Strategy Call last fall with a $34M commercial GC. He was tracking backlog the way most owners do: one number, on a sticky note, updated whenever he remembered.
A civil contractor we work with had DSO sitting at 73 days when we started the engagement. He'd been running the business for 22 years and assumed that's just what construction loo...
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A Fractional CFO is the one seat in your construction business whose entire job is what happens next: cash, margins, bonding, and the decisions your bookkeeper, CPA, and controller...
More profitable contractors go out of business from cash flow problems than from bad work.
It's Wednesday at 6:47 PM. The owner of a $22M civil contractor is sitting in his truck in the office parking lot, scrolling his bank app for the third time today.
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