Operating as small business owners, independent contractors are responsible for not only producing quality work for clients, but also completing bookkeeping, marketing and administrative tasks to ...

When contractors perform work and incur delays on a project, one often overlooked possible claim is for lost home office overhead. Home office overhead includes home office (not project site) rental ...

What overhead did construction companies cut during the recent downturn? My colleagues and I at Arizona State University wanted to know, so we surveyed companies around the country. The results are ...

With the possibility of up to $1.5 trillion in government infrastructure work on the horizon, asphalt contractors can envision significant and rapid growth opportunities and planning cash flows will ...

Too many construction organizations become slaves to their overhead, their general and administrative expenses. Increased overhead usually equates to increased capacity and is common and appropriate ...

COMPETITION IS AS tough as it has ever been. Since the mid-1960s the domestic construction market has not grown by any measure. In constant dollars (inflation adjusted), we have the same size ...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hold argument as to the correctness of a ruling that general contractor overhead and profit (GCOP) was not required to be factored into two homeowners' ...

Every contractor starts a project hoping to make a good profit. But the truth is, many contractors are already losing ...

The Pennsylvania Superior Court has ruled that general contractor overhead and profit (GCOP) was not required to be factored into two homeowners' actual cash value settlements with their insurer for ...

Some homeowners who organized their own home repairs after Hurricane Ike say they're missing out on an insurance benefit a general contractor would receive for the same work. According to four ...

On August 18, 2020, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania held, in a 4-3 decision[1], that insurer, Truck Insurance Exchange, was entitled to withhold general contractor overhead and profit expenses ...

In regard to Holman Jenkins, Jr.'s Nov. 23 Business World "The Medicare-for-All Diversion": What Mr. Jenkins neglects to mention is that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) contracts ...