We Know What You're Trying to Build Here

 

Dorval Management Associates, Inc. (DMA) is a boutique business consulting firm that has helped owners in the construction industry with the following:

 

• Find free time to better enjoy life
• Improve the bottom line
• Growth
• Family businesses with internal conflict
• Succession planning and exit strategy
• Ensure gross profit exceeds expenses so a profit is realized

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We are a practical solution for all types of businesses in the construction industry, such as:

 

• General contractors
• Sub-contractors (electricians, framers, landscapers, masons, painters, pavers, plasterers, plumbers, roofers, etc.)
• Service providers (site trailer and equipment rental, etc.)
• Suppliers (plumbing and electrical supply, lumberyards)

 

Are you a type-A personality?  A go-getter who wants the job done right the first time? Are you the hands-on guy/gal that runs every aspect of his/her business? – (Ending up with no time for anything but business). Consumed 24/7?  Mouse-on-the-wheel? YOUR company, in decent shape, BUT still not making the money you know it can make? Having to find the time to do things over 2, 3 and 4 times, but never having time to figure out what you should have done to get it right the first time?

 

Sound familiar? DMA can help, we are committed to:

 

• Developing clear business goals
• Designing and implementing an effective organizational structure (Chain of Command) based on your business goals
• Building empowered coordinated teams
• Improving company morale and getting employees to think like owners by developing and implementing an effective incentive plan
  
  

There is an old saying in Construction “You move dirt once, you’ve made money, move the same dirt again, you’ve lost money”. It is similar with financial reporting. We will make it so the information is put in once, with USEFUL, TIMELY reports available immediately – so proper requisitions can be sent and tracked, employees and subs can be paid and revenue and cost information can be available to run current jobs and better estimate future jobs.

 

DMA reviews, customizes, and implements sound business policies and processes in order to enhance operating efficiencies and profitability for the company - Spending too much time in meetings (where minutes are taken and hours are lost)? Left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing?  We will organize processes and procedures that work and rid the company of “stuff” that is done because “we always did it that way”.

 

Some of the policies, processes, and procedures we review, organize and customize are:

 

• Goal setting and budget development
• Cash management, billing, and collection
• Job cost reporting with variance analysis
• WIP (work in process) reporting
• Project opening and closing check list
• Overhead and labor burden
• Determination of equipment rates
• Estimating
• Change order management
• Existing pricing methods with gross margin determination
• Management techniques and levels of delegation and involvement
• Project slippage tracking
• Equipment utilization tracking
• Win-to-bid ratio tracking
• Current marketing efforts
• Vendor review
• Collection of retention
  
  

We are a boutique business consulting firm that will make a lasting positive impact on your business and your life.