About the Profits Calculator

Industry Standard Cost Factors and ComputerEase customers' experiences are combined and used here to give you a generalized indicator of the kind of increased ROI and profits you could experience.

ROI-Profits Snapshot Identifies best practices and productivity improvements experienced by ComputerEase clients. This tool utilizes industry norms for all types of construction. This gives you insight into return-on-investment and productivity increases with ComputerEase.

Full Analysis Report is also available, it takes your actual financial figures and models your productivity improvements into a full ROI analysis, tailored to your company.

FMI Management Consulting.
Founded in 1953 by Dr. Emol A. Fails, FMI delivers consultation and information to the worldwide construction industry.

CFMA - Construction Financial Management Association is a substantial information resource for construction financial professionals.

STEP 1: Sales Goal or Projections

Enter your projected or actual FY Sales Targets:

$	Enter number then click on Step 2 below...

STEP 2: Labor Saving Strategies

Select from proven productivity practices:

	Better Coordination - Project & Resource Scheduling Module
	Comparable Wage "Correct Payments" - Payroll Module
	Better Labor Deployment - Project & Resource Scheduler Module
	Handle Higher Workload and Expansion with Less Personnel
	Workers' Comp -"Proper Risk Assesment" - Workers' Comp Reporting

STEP 3: Material Cost Reduction

Choose from these best practices:

	Improved Purchasing Control - Purchasing Module, Pricing Management
	JIT (Just In Time) Ordering - Purchasing Module
	Reducing Inventory and Storage Costs - Inventory-Control Module
	Material Scrap Reduction - Inventrory Module
	Reduce Materials Handling Costs - More Accurate Material Estimating - Q-tool and Estimating Modules
	Improve Material Planning and Job Allocation - Purchasing Module & Pull Lists

STEP 4: Subcontractor Management

Click below to select from management innovations:

	Better Coordinate Subs into Comprehensive Project Plan - Project & Resource Scheduler
	Manage Schedule - Communications & Scheduler Modules
	Change Order Management - Document Control
	ProActive Problem Solving - Trouble Shooter and Red Flag Alerts
	Faster Vendor Invoice Approval - Electronic Document Processing

STEP 5: Equipment as a Profit Center

Choose among Equipment Management options:

	True Costing to Jobs - Equipment Module
	Accurate Tool Deployment - Project Resource Scheduler and Rental Modules
	Rent vs Buy Analysis - True Cost Analysis - Equipment Module Reporting
	Preventive Maintenance Scheduling - Equipment Module
	Equipment to Job Coordination - Job Resource Scheduling Module
	Equipment Rentals to Subcontractors - Maximizing Income Potential - Rental Module

STEP 6: Schedule Management

Select from Schedule-management productivity improvement options:

	Project Timeline Management - Project Scheduling Module
	Real-Time Data - Job Center Module
	Remote Time Entry - FieldEase Remote Timekeeping Module
	Faster Project Milestone Documentation - Job Center Module
	Faster Customer Invoicing - Speed Information Processing with Accounts Receivable and Real-time Communications
	Expedite Pencil-Copy Approval - Faster Turnaround on All Customer Invoicing with "Electronic Pencil Copy"
	Receive Customer Payments Sooner - Accounts Receivable Module

STEP 7: Overhead Cost Control

Identify which productivity options fit your organization:

	More Efficient Communications - Reduce Time Tracking Data or Spent in Low-productive Meetings - Document Control
	Improve Budgeting Accuracy - Reduce Budgeting Errors with General Ledger
	Improve Estimating Turnaround Time - Build a Comprehensive Estimating Package with Pro-Est or Third-Party Module
	Reduce Travel between Sites and Offices - Move Data not People with FieldEase

STEP 8: Get Your Results ROI-Profits Snapshot Here

Steve Shipp
VP Finance
HGC Construction

People always want to, when you buy any piece of software, they want to jump at, oh, my goodness, you know, I'm going to spend, you know, such an amount of money. But compared to our old accounting system, it immediately started do the AA billings, immediately did certified payroll, and it immediately started tracking our labor costs. So ComputerEase, I mean, started paying for itself within six or seven months.

John Stenger
President
Stenger & Company

Right. I mean, whether it's a contractor or a manufacturing company or a cabinet manufacturer, I don't care what kind of company it is, you know, that indirect cost, that overhead cost is vital for every company to understand. One thing that's nice inside of ComputerEase is you have the ability to go in through their job cost module and uh, click on what they call their global adjust overhead function, and we can go back and look historically, for instance, in 2007, and we can have ComputerEase run scenarios and assist the client and look at what would I have allocated to my jobs if I changed my overhead allocation to say $11.50 an hour, or what would it have been at $10.50 an hour, or what would it take to allocate 100 percent of overhead allocations to the jobs? And that global adjust overhead function inside of ComputerEase makes a job that probably took us 10, 15 hours, we can do in a matter of about 45 minutes at the most on probably the largest contractor that we have.

Toni Clever
Special Projects
Grote Enterprises

One of the things that, in all the years I did consulting because most of my public accounting experience in construction is either tax or consulting. And one of the things that I really gave me a lot of job satisfaction is I could go in there and show the client where they're saving money because, the more you help your company grow and the more you teach them how to use their internal tools and they have systems that allow them that data real time not you send the data off, the CPA compiles it and, by the time you get it back, you're a month out and the data's not real time and so you get that real time benefit and you save that money. You don't have to pay to have it done because you're producing a monthly financial statement internally that's accurate, that shows whether you're over or under applied on your indirect rates, that you can print it out by division, uhm, you can tie it to your job costing based on how you set up your job numbers and your classes. And what I am finding more and more in industry is, that's what the bonding companies are looking for. Your surety and the bonding company wants to know that you can produce accurate data and that they can rely on that and not wait 'til the end of the year when the CPA does an audit or review.

Terri Kenny
Accounting Supervisor
Grote Enterprises

Payroll used to take, for the Thomas J. Dyer Company, because at the time that was our biggest company, and uhm, payroll would take a day. Uh, we would start, well, it would actually start the Friday before entering time and we would finish up sometime late Monday early Tuesday. Our payroll's completed now on Monday by 3:00 p.m. and we usually don't start until 8:00 a.m. on Monday. And that's everything out the door. So the time difference is unbelievable.

John Jay Sweeney
Comptroller
Grote Enterprises

What- what the outside stakeholders are looking for is that you have as a management team the ability to plan profitability on a job. To set a- a gross profit percentage that you believe you can earn on that job, and then to be able to manage all the elements in the job, primarily your workforce, but also your material purchases in order to achieve the planned growth profit percentage that you have. If, for example, you say, "Yes, I'm going to earn fifteen percent," and you consistently earn three percent you lose credibility with the out- with outside entities. And what ComputerEase affords us is the- the ability to track on a very quick basis, and on a consistent basis, is where that profitability on each job is. And it ha- it has inherent features in it that allow you to be able to use a software to complete a cost to complete for each job so that you can very accurately determine where the- the total costs on the job are going to be, and- and to be able to measure where that gross profit percentage will be accurately at any point in time in the job.

Tim Cleary
President
TMI Electrical

We get very good information out of the ComputerEase software, in terms of profitability. Once again I have to say the thing that’s most important to me is knowing why I’m profitable, not that I’m profitable. I need to be able to drill into it and understand what I’m doing extremely well and replicating that particular thing over and over and over. Uhm.. and that has been the greatest value of ComputerEase software.