NEVER MISS PAYROLL · PART 3 OF 6 ·

YOUR EQUIPMENT'S LEAKING MONEY, AND IT'S NOT THE MAINTENANCE BILL.

EQUIPMENT COST BASIS · NOTHING TO ENTERWatch on YouTube
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Part 3 of Never Miss Payroll Without Taking On Debt covers the equipment and vehicle cost basis. A rate built on what you paid recovers enough to own a worn out machine. It doesn't buy the next one. It is published in full, nothing is asked for, and it plays above. The first five sessions fix the five most common financial holes in a subcontracting business. The last one teaches you how to keep a pulse on all five and keep them within spec.

THE TOOL FOR THIS SESSION

EQUIPMENT COST BASIS CALCULATOR, AND WHAT IT COSTS.

Emailed on request. It's emailed as an attachment rather than posted as a link, so it goes to a real address and nowhere else.

One row per unit: number, year, make, model, VIN, current value, useful life in years and in Hobbs hours, replacement cost, and annual maintenance, insurance and other
Four rates calculated per unit: hourly for metered equipment, then daily, weekly and four week
Company totals across the fleet, so the whole equipment cost basis is one number you can put against overhead
Room for 30 units before anything needs extending

EXCEL WORKBOOKEMAILEDGet the equipment cost basis calculator

WHAT THIS SESSION COVERS

THE EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLE COST BASIS, FIVE THINGS.

The subject outline, so you can see whether this is the hour you need before you spend it. Each one is worked through on screen with the math rather than described.

1 OF 5

Replacement cost rather than book value, and why a rate built on book value has you replacing a dozer out of the line of credit.

2 OF 5

Seven productive hours in an eight hour day, and the twelve percent that goes missing every day a machine turns.

3 OF 5

Metered against unmetered: an hour meter gives an hourly rate, and a pickup gets priced off the calendar instead.

4 OF 5

Getting the rate into the bid and into the job cost at the same number, so estimated equipment and actual equipment compare.

5 OF 5

Why equipment left sitting in overhead is the most common reason an overhead percentage climbs every year with no line item to blame.

EVERY TOOL IN THE SERIES

ALL 3 OF THEM, AND WHAT EACH ONE COSTS.

You do not have to watch in order to use these. If the thing biting you today is two sessions away, take that workbook now and come back for the video when it suits you.

SOV and Pay Application template, part 1. Emailed as an attachment, and we will never sell your information. Get it here
13-Week Cash Flow Forecast Template, parts 2 and 4. $49 once, the only tool here that costs anything. Get it here
equipment cost basis calculator, part 3. Emailed as an attachment, and we will never sell your information. Get it here This is the one this session uses.
WHERE THIS SITS

ONE OF 6, IN THIS ORDER.

The first five sessions fix the five most common financial holes in a subcontracting business. The last one teaches you how to keep a pulse on all five and keep them within spec. This is part 3, the equipment cost basis part. Each one stands on its own, and the order is what makes them compound.

PART 3 · EQUIPMENT COST BASIS · YOU ARE HERE

Your Equipment's Leaking Money, and It's Not the Maintenance Bill

PART 4 · OVERHEAD CALCULATION · SCHEDULED

The 10% Myth That Tanks the Bank Account

PART 5 · ESTIMATING ALIGNMENT · SCHEDULED

Losing Money Before You Even Get to Site

PART 6 · MONTHLY CADENCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY · SCHEDULED

Reading the Red Flags While You Can Still Fix Them

← Part 2All 6 sessionsPART 4 NOT YET RECORDED

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SERIES

THE SAME SYSTEM, ALL OF IT.

CONTROL: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System is the whole build order these six sessions walk, from job cost structure through to the monthly cadence that keeps it running. This session is the equipment cost basis part. Every tool used across the series comes with the book: a QR code inside it, a password, and every CONTROL template downloadable at runoncfos.com. The paperback is $24.99.

PAPERBACKAVAILABLE ON AMAZONWhat the book coversrunoncfos.com

This session is chapter 2 of the book. Chapter 2, Equipment Cost Basis, at runoncfos.com.

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COMMON QUESTIONS

ABOUT THIS SESSION.

The equipment and vehicle cost basis, which is the equipment cost basis part of the system. A rate built on what you paid recovers enough to own a worn out machine. It doesn't buy the next one. Replacement cost rather than book value, and why a rate built on book value has you replacing a dozer out of the line of credit.

No. The session plays on this page with nothing entered and nothing joined. It's also on the YouTube channel, and it's the same recording either way.

No. Each of the six stands on its own and this one explains its own method from the start. The series has an order because the fixes compound, and you can still read part 3 on its own.

Yes, and there's no form. It downloads directly from /equipment-cost-calculator with nothing entered. Emailed on request.

The series walks the build order of CONTROL, and this session is the equipment cost basis part of it. The book is the whole system written out. Buy the book and a QR code inside it gets you every CONTROL template, password protected, at runoncfos.com.
Josh Luebker, SPM The Construction CFO
Josh Luebker
FRACTIONAL CFO · SPM THE CONSTRUCTION CFO

Josh Luebker is a master electrician turned construction CFO, president of SPM The Construction CFO and author of CONTROL: C.F.O.S. Construction Financial Operating System.

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