We use Quickbooks Premier Contractor Desktop. We create estimates and compare estimates to actuals for fixed price construction contracts. We have a laborer who we typically use as a clean-up person around job sites. We would like to bill our customers a few dollars more than we pay this person to cover administrative costs. We manage customer funds in a separate checking account (as an asset of our company). We write a check to pay for the laborer from the separate account and deposit it into our general checking account. The laborer is paid from the general account. Currently, we either generate double expenses (one when we write the check from the separate account and one when we write the check from the general account) or generate additional income (we invoice against the estimate we create, but when we book the laborer as billable expenses and create an invoice it generates income). If we paid the laborer directly from the separate account it would eliminate these issues, but then we do not cover the administrative expense and it would create havoc in our payroll. Thanks in advance.
