Author
Fred Ode
Fred Ode is the CEO/chairman and founder of Foundation Software, developer of FOUNDATION for Windows. Ode can be reached by phone at 800.246.0800.
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SoftwareFred Ode answers your construction technology questions.
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Accounting Technology
Frustrated With Canned Job Cost Reports?
What do construction accounting software packages offer compared with generic accounting software? -
Accounting
How Should I Allocate Overhead Costs?
Should you take the extra step and allocate all overhead costs? -
Technology
How Can I Be More Productive on the Jobsite?
Fred Ode answers your construction software and technology questions. -
Technology
Tech Trap No.10: Taking Technology for Granted
As a teenager, my parents used to tell me if I was going to be out late I would need to call home. "Make sure you have a dime for the payphone," my mother would remind me. -
Business Management
Better Next Year No. 4: Fine-Tune Project Management Reports
It's a common problem shared among busy construction owners'working hard to manage all the details of their jobs leaves little time to tell which projects are working. -
Technology
Do We Need a Dispatching System?
Fred Ode answers your construction technology questions. -
Business Management
Better Next Year No. 6: Minimize Resistance to Change
Fred Ode tells you how to make next year your business' best. -
Software
Accounting Software Checkup No. 3: Has Inconsistent Job Cost Reporting Left You Feeling Irritable?
"I don't know how the job is doing." "I don't have any report to show that." "There is no data from previous jobs." These are comments that no contractor wants to hear. -
Technology
Is Pressure Building Between Accounting and Field Staff?
Like late-night pizza on a sensitive stomach, construction accounting managers and operations people don't always get along.


