by Lisa Harris | Oct 26, 2026 | Financial Operations, Insights
In more than one project business I’ve worked with, the owner wanted better job-costing reports and assumed the report format was the problem. The format was fine. Costs weren’t being assigned to jobs when purchases were made, time wasn’t captured...
by Lisa Harris | Jun 30, 2026 | Insights, Systems & Automation
I use both ChatGPT and Claude. Not really as a versus thing. I do not trust one answer just because it sounds good. Sometimes I put the same issue into both and compare where they agree, where they split, and where one catches something the other missed. That is...
by Lisa Harris | Jun 25, 2026 | Financial Operations, Insights
Late financials do more than delay reporting. They force the owner to make decisions without reliable information. When books are consistently late, the problem is usually not just bookkeeping speed. It usually points to a deeper operating issue: unclear processes,...
by Lisa Harris | Jun 17, 2026 | Insights, Strategic Finance
Most business budgets follow the same pattern: take last year’s numbers, add a percentage, and call it a plan. That’s not budgeting — that’s guessing with formatting. And it means every growth decision — hiring, equipment, expansion — is made without...
by Lisa Harris | Jun 4, 2026 | Insights, Systems & Automation
If you’re getting last month’s financials in the middle of this month — or later — every decision in between is based on incomplete data. Your financials become historical records instead of management tools, and by the time you see a problem, it’s...
