More stories about Management

• Control Costs With a Purchasing System

  For the past several columns we've been talking about the importance of gross profit and contribution margin, or the amount that each job "contributes" toward overcoming your annual fixed overhead expenses and reaching your profit target.

• Make More By Controlling Your Growth

  When I was a young builder in the early '80s, there was an old-timer in town who worked with a couple of his sons, a small crew, and a handful of good local subcontractors.

• JLC Report

  Outsourcing paperwork with a PEO; high-school building program faces closure; defective-drywall guide raises eyebrows; more

• Protecting Profits in Your Construction Business

  Let's begin this month by reviewing some basic financial concepts and benchmarks.

• Faster Time Tracking

  This automated time clock can speed payroll, improve job-costing, and help you estimate more accurately.

• Business

  Budgeting for your marketing, sales, and project starts

• Pop Quiz: Q&A With Freddie Mac's Mike May

  Apartment Finance Today recently sat down with Freddie Mac's Mike May to get his perspective on the competitive landscape, both against chief rival Fannie Mae and the private sector, as well as the company's plans for 2011.

• Use Excel to Budget Next Year's Project Mix

  Take some pain out of the yearly exercise of creating your jobs budget

• Temporary Fix

  THE PAST FEW YEARS haven't been great for apartment owners. Turns out corporate housing companies have had it just as bad.

• Using the NAHB Chart of Accounts to Organize Your Business Finances

  Here's an effective way to organize and categorize expenses and job-cost data and compare the results with your forecasts.