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- Hannah McWhorter
- August 15, 2023
See how S&L Companies, a New York-based general construction contractor company, used Certified Payroll Reporting...
- Admin
- July 5, 2023
Form DAS 142, also known as an authorization for overtime work form, is a document authorizing overtime pay for...
- Alise Houserman
- May 15, 2023
A prevailing wage determination, sometimes referred to as a Davis-Bacon determination, is the clerical backbone of...
- Alise Houserman
- April 25, 2023
The president's 2022 budget proposal includes over $2.3 billion in infrastructure spending. Government agencies at all...
- Nick Foucault
- April 11, 2023
Prevailing wage reports are documents that show the wages and benefits paid to workers on public works projects. These...
- Jeff Simison
- March 22, 2023
If you are a contractor working on a federally funded project, you may be required to submit certified payroll reports...
- Accounting Support
- January 31, 2023
In many ways, it may seem like we’ve entered into a golden age of automation. From consumer electronics to home...
- Accounting Support
- January 26, 2023
One of the challenging aspects of handling an organization’s payroll is knowing how much money to withhold for employee...
- Admin
- September 3, 2022
Did you know that if a project receives more than $2,000 in government funding you could face a compliance obligation?...
- Alise Houserman
- July 23, 2022
The Davis-Bacon Act of 1931 requires construction companies to pay workers local prevailing wages and benefits. Most...
- Alise Houserman
- April 3, 2022
When working on contracts, particularly government contracts, you often are subject to Davis-Bacon and Related Acts.
- Accounting Support
- June 28, 2021
Prevailing wage compliance can be a challenging task. You can ask the contractors that had to repay millions of dollars...
- Accounting Support
- June 28, 2021
Finding talented employees for your construction business is difficult. The Association of General Contractors recently...
- Accounting Support
- June 28, 2021
Did you know there are 700,000 construction companies inthe US? That makes construction a highly competitive industry....
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Construction cost codes or activity-based costing are the most reliable ways for companies to account for the work...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
To work for the federal government, one must be aware of the rules and regulations set up to protect workers. One of...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Traditional contractors are having a difficult time standing out in a competitive construction market because of:
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Local and state governments spend over $250 billion to build roads, schools, and other public infrastructure every...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Using time tracking software in your business has several benefits. Using any time tracking software in your business...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Introducing construction software at your company is exciting—it can also be quite challenging. Adjusting to new...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Contractors might be asked to submit two different types of payroll for work performed on a specific contract or...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2021
Is your construction company ready to take on challenging federal, state, or local construction projects? Then consider...
- Accounting Support
- February 17, 2021
If you are bidding on a contract or already working for a government entity, there are specific requirements to ensure...
- Accounting Support
- February 5, 2021
The Davis-Bacon act requires employers working on construction projects to submit a weekly WH-347 report to the...
- Accounting Support
- November 11, 2020
Illinois is among the 32 states having prevailing wage laws on the books. The Illinois Prevailing Wages Act is used to...
- Accounting Support
- November 4, 2020
In 1945, The Washington State Public Works Act was revised. It requires that government employees be paid prevailing...
- Accounting Support
- October 28, 2020
Davis-Bacon Act and the respective state “mini Davis-Bacon Acts” impose a condition on construction projects. According...
- Accounting Support
- October 21, 2020
Companies in every industry are overwhelmed with payroll. A commercially available payroll is not able to handle the...
- Accounting Support
- October 10, 2020
No matter how well-organized business is, you may run into payroll obstacles. Paying the employees on time is one of...
- Accounting Support
- October 2, 2020
As an employer, you are obliged to pay your employees. As a responsible employer, you also must withhold tax deduction....
- Accounting Support
- September 17, 2020
Shifting paper-based payroll to paperless payroll is time-saving and efficient to work in today’s digital world....
- Accounting Support
- September 9, 2020
Minor errors are common in the Year-End payroll process, but small neglected mistakes can add up to a large penalty....
- Accounting Support
- September 4, 2020
WHAT IS CERTIFIED PAYROLL? Contractors (and subcontractors) are compelled to send Certified Payroll Records (CPRs) to...
- Accounting Support
- August 29, 2020
As technological advancement increases with time, the use of management software by professionals also increases. In...
- Accounting Support
- August 21, 2020
Payroll services are very important, and managing an organization’s payroll is no easy task — it’s time-consuming and...
- Accounting Support
- August 5, 2020
A Prevailing Wage Case Study How Jacobs Telephone Contractors used Certified Payroll Reporting to save more than $11K a...
- Accounting Support
- August 1, 2020
The fact that people from various avenues and stakeholders have to work together to deliver a project makes...
- Accounting Support
- June 25, 2020
Some small businesses may choose to outsource their payroll work to a payroll service provider than doing it in-house....
- Accounting Support
- June 6, 2020
Are you looking to become the next big government contractor and are worried that the pandemic may have slowed down...
- Accounting Support
- May 23, 2020
As a contractor or subcontractor, you must have heard of the terms Certified Payroll and Prevailing Wage . Before...
- Accounting Support
- May 16, 2020
Taxes are an important part of every country, state, or sovereign. They are the backbone of any country’s economic...
- Accounting Support
- May 7, 2020
Cash flow control poses a relentless obstacle for all sizes of construction firms. Many define the construction sector...
- Accounting Support
- May 5, 2020
All federal and federally-aided construction contracts and subcontracts are obliged to submit weekly payrolls. It...
- Accounting Support
- April 21, 2020
Before the processing of any payroll, there is a lot of work that needs to be done and with our Payroll Reporting...
- Steve Elworth
- March 18, 2020
Construction accounting plays a critical role in helping contractors effectively manage finances, control costs, and...
- Accounting Support
- March 3, 2020
Prevailing wage laws state that when contractors or subcontractors are hiring workers for public jobs, they should pay...
- Accounting Support
- January 14, 2020
What Contractors Need to Know About Davis-Bacon Wages Anyone who's worked as a contractor on a government construction...
- Accounting Support
- January 4, 2020
Understanding Prevailing Wage Laws for Contractors Prevailing wages are wage rates determined by local markets;...
- Accounting Support
- November 20, 2019
A certified payroll report is a specially formatted payroll report, consisting of two pages. In this blog and article...
- Accounting Support
- August 8, 2019
If you win a contract for the government then you must submit a certified payroll report every week to the project’s...
- Accounting Support
- July 9, 2019
If you work with contractors then you have to take care of loads of paperwork at the end of every fiscal year which...
- Accounting Support
- June 24, 2019
Certified Payroll Reporting can be one of your most time consuming financial operations if you don’t handle it...
- Accounting Support
- June 10, 2019
Understanding the basic requirements for certified payroll Certified payroll reports, which need to be submitted every...