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July 16, 2025
Accrued Sick: New State Rules
We have a client in Minnesota who has some new rules for accruing sick and vacation time. Beginning in 2023, based on the state rules, they are using the very nice Vacation and Sick accrual features in the 5-2-1 screen. For the Vacation section (which was renamed to match the state program), they have a […]
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July 09, 2025
Book Review: The Cost of Discipleship
Several years ago, my friend Paul recommended the Bonhoeffer book by Eric Metaxas. At over 500 pages, it’s a time commitment, but fascinating. More recently, the Bonhoeffer documentary came out. So, when I came across this book by the same author/translator, I decided to dig in. In this book, Bonhoeffer tackles the subject of what […]
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July 02, 2025
Overhead Payroll Entry
Many construction companies have moved to electronic field time collections software. In fact, many of you use our FIT System and have shared some wonderful comments. What we’ve also learned is that the overhead people don’t always use this software to turn in their time (which begs the question, how are they doing it then?). […]
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June 25, 2025
Fourth Industrial Revolution
In the Phoenix Business Journal December 20-26, 2024 issue, there was an article summarizing a panel discussion with several companies deeply involved in Construction. In this case, it was specific to the Arizona market, but many of these comments and considerations are appropriate for all those in construction across the country. There was an interesting […]
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June 19, 2025
Acumatica Press Release
For decades we’ve been focused on Sage 100 Contractor, a construction-specific accounting and project management solution. This is a great solution that has served and continues to serve our clients’ needs – but some needs are changing. We’ve watched so many changes in technology over the years. The shift for ERP software is to move […]
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May 28, 2025
ROI on Cyber Security? Yes!
At last year’s TUG (The User Group) event, one of the breakout sessions was about cybersecurity for construction companies. Rather than attend the software-specific breakout for that slot, I decided to attend this one. I was very surprised at how many around the table had experienced a breach and even paid a ransom! Many were […]
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May 14, 2025
MFA Everywhere, Please
One of our clients was signed into Microsoft Edge with their personal Gmail account, which did not have MFA. From this browser, the Gmail account had access to the business accounts and login information. If you sign into your browser with a personal account, then save work credentials like bank passwords, vendor passwords, and similar, […]
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May 08, 2025
Are You Traveling?
We’ve noticed quite a few clients are traveling outside the US, exploring new places. How do we know this? Because when these travelers want to check in, they’re blocked and can’t get access! True, it’s part of our security stack to lock down other countries, greatly reducing the amount of traffic to be filtered. Before […]
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April 30, 2025
Email Signatures
We’ve always rotated our email signatures to share our fun, seasonal logo images, and to update links to timely video blogs on important topics. We’ve incorporated some of our important vendor relationship logos along with our own. All of this takes some management! Then each month, we have to send the new one out to […]
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April 23, 2025
Change Orders
The Change Order module is pretty powerful. At its most basic, Change Orders are entered for the jobs, and when Approved, will impact the Contract, the Budget, and even Subcontracts if you have them. It’s also a great way to manage allowances and contingencies. An internal change order gives excellent tracking of what funds have […]
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