Payroll Tip: Check Your Worker Classifications

Check Your Prevailing Wage Worker Classifications When is a laborer, not a laborer? Potentially, when they’re an equipment operator — or working as anything else, for that matter. That’s because when agencies look for prevailing wage compliance, they aren’t necessarily looking at job titles. Instead, they want to know workers are being classified and paid for the work they’re doing. …

5 Reasons Why You Should Review Pre-Check Reports

Construction offices know how invaluable good payroll reports are — whether that’s for keeping track of accruals through the year, reprinting an earnings history or filing W-2s — but what about pre-payroll reporting? Pre-check reports that let you view the effect of a payroll run on your accounting before you finish processing it are often overlooked. Meanwhile, contractors stand to gain a lot from …

Case Study: For Tight Line Construction, One Good Decision Leads to Another

With any new company, the work at the very beginning is easily the most challenging, as early decisions shape the future of the business. In 2014, the Boston-based wall and ceilings specialty contractor Tight Line Construction* had been operating for less than a year. They’d been running their construction accounting on a popular small-business software and were in the final …