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Services

Professionals Who Help You Build Your Business

Bonding and Banking Relationships

Strong bonding and banking relationships are vital to your construction company’s success. The CSG will help you optimize these relationships. If your company has never had a bonding and/or banking relationship, you can count on the CSG’s relationships with surety industry personnel and financial institutions to help you establish one. You can depend on the CSG for assistance with:

• Establishing your first surety bonding and banking relationship
• Maximizing your existing bonding and banking relationship
• Structuring a plan to maximize your capacity
• Preparing the financial information required by bonding companies and banks
• Evaluating your borrowing needs

Accounting & Auditing Services

For growth and success, you need financial statements that accurately present your company’s strength. Financial statements are used in determining the size of your bonding line, helping
support your claims and change orders, meeting government requirements, obtaining financing or pre-qualifying for the next important project. You can depend on the CSG for assistance with:

• Audits, reviews and compilations of financial statements
• Preparation of state pre-qualification reports
• Operational reviews
• Study and evaluation of accounting and internal control systems
• Benchmarking analysis
• Internal audit

Contract Administration

Managing your projects efficiently is a major key to success in the construction industry. That is why the CSG places special importance on helping you establish the systems and procedures you need to properly monitor your work-in-progress. You can depend on the CSG for assistance with:

• Documenting and billing of change orders
• Evaluating/verifying construction claims
• Improving cash management on projects
• Studying and evaluating project management processes and systems
• Calculating equipment usage rates
• Buying versus leasing decisions

Tax Planning and Compliance Services

Ongoing changes in tax laws dictate that a contractor’s tax situation is going to be monitored throughout the year, and not just at “tax time.” The CSG professionals will meet your demands responsively, creatively and cost effectively by continuously investigating new and innovative tax applications and monitoring tax legislation. To develop a strategy for minimizing your tax liabilities and maximizing your related cash flow from operations, you can depend on the CSG for assistance with:

• Corporate/personal tax return preparation, including state and local filing requirements
• Corporate/owners’ tax planning
• Planning for long-term contract tax regulations
• Review of multi-state tax filing regulations
• Succession and estate planning
• Retirement planning
• Reorganization

Construction Claim Services

Disputes can occur between owners, contractors, design professionals and others involved in construction projects.  The issues of a dispute often result in one or more of the parties claiming financial and economic damages.

Our construction industry experience includes representing owners, contractors and other impacted parties in the preparation and defense of construction related damage claims and the presentation of these claims in mediation, arbitration and court proceedings.  

The following are types of financial and economic damage claims that we evaluate:

• Delay
• Disruption
• Acceleration
• Extra work and change orders
• Termination
• Lack of payment
• Lost profits  
• Defective work /rework

The calculation of financial damages involves an analysis of many complex issues.  Claims must be reasonable, practical and adequately documented.  Our experts have experience in key project documentation, including:

• Job cost reports
• Accounting records
• Payroll reports
• Contracts
• Change orders
• Bid documents
• Pay applications
• Sschedules
• Progress reports
• Daily logs

Our understanding of the litigation process allows us to work effectively with counsel to objectively evaluate claims and counterclaims.

The facts of a particular dispute typically require detailed analyses of direct and indirect costs for impacts and economic damages.  We are experienced in the evaluation of fixed and variable costs related to construction issues including:
labor; materials; equipment; onsite overhead; and home office overhead.

View bio for Construction Claims Specialist - Thomas D. Pratt

Computer Systems

Whatever the size of your contracting firm, you can dramatically improve your company’s productivity and information flow by use of computer technology. Your system’s operations could include estimating, scheduling and project management, job costing, accounts payable and receivable, payroll, inventory and general ledger. You can depend on the CSG with assistance in:

• Technology needs and analysis
• Software solutions for your business
• Negotiations with vendors
• System implementation and training
• Network design and installation

Business Consulting

Helping you build your business with more than traditional accounting and tax services, the CSG also offers you experienced business advisors — professionals you can depend on for advice about sound organizational structure, management goals, strategic planning and all the factors that affect your bottom line. You can depend on the CSG for advice about:

• Analysis of operations for efficiency and profitability
• Development of financial projections and business plans
• Assistance with development of budgets
• Executive compensation and fringe benefits
• Right-sizing and overhead analysis
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Personnel evaluation and searches
• Deferred compensation plans