{"product_id":"practical-construction-accounting-and-financial-yunfeng-chen-9781612497655","title":"Practical Construction Accounting and Financial Management","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePractical Construction Accounting and Financial Management\u003c\/i\u003e provides instructions, training, exercises, and examples of the fundamentals that successful construction contractors must master: the ability to capture, summarize, analyze, and forecast operation data to be better informed when making project and business decisions. Typically, a project manager is not involved with data entry but is a source of data collection. Often the project manager's lack of understanding of accounting systems creates a situation where the project manager's role in the data retrieval and entry is compromised. This compromise results in poor decisions being made by the project and company managers due to inaccurate and untimely data. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book provides current and future construction professionals with an awareness of fundamental accounting concepts and financial principles to successfully manage the finances of construction companies, including accurately pricing projects based on actual overhead and profit recovery needs, successfully controlling the cost to operate a construction company through the comparison between company budgets and actual financial statements, and proactively forecasting cash needs before falling into a potential cash trap that could force the company into bankruptcy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yunfeng Chen, Frederick Barnes Muehlhausen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1612497659\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781612497655\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Purdue University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 214\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.12lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.45d","brand":"Yunfeng Chen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44073033040127,"sku":"9781612497655","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d1b8cd6d-0803-4a65-addb-b965b4d9d541.jpg?v=1685445405","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/practical-construction-accounting-and-financial-yunfeng-chen-9781612497655","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}