THE BOOK
The Ultimate Guide to Real Estate Development
Accounting Software
Most development firms run on rearview mirror reporting: numbers that tell you where you have already been, after it is too late to change anything. This book is the blueprint for building the opposite: a forward-looking financial system that tells you where the project is headed while you can still do something about it.
WHAT'S INSIDE
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Understanding the roles, challenges, and stakes that drive every development organization.
02
Building the structural backbone your portfolio depends on.
03
How project detail stays connected to, yet independent of, your financial books.
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Organizing information, documents, and notes so your project data lives in one place.
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How to structure your cost codes so every dollar tells its story.
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Tracking feasibility investments before you commit to building.
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How project data transforms into actionable intelligence.
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How three budgets working together give you accountability, management, and early warning.
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The heart of project cost control.
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Understanding what you've incurred, when it was incurred, and where it was allocated.
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Calculating where you're actually headed based on everything you know today.
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How to efficiently draw funds from your lender while maintaining project momentum.
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How reporting, dashboards, dynamic data views, and notifications transform project intelligence into action.
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Your golden rules, KPI essentials, and the roadmap from reading to doing.
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The framework for building a
development operation that runs on more than spreadsheets and instinct.
What it really costs when you find out a project is underwater months after the decisions were made.
How forward-looking financial
infrastructure turns guesswork into a repeatable, profitable process.
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This book is written for the people who own the outcomes of a real estate development project: owners, presidents, CFOs, controllers and finance directors, VPs of construction, project managers, and project accountants. If you carry responsibility for project profitability, or if you have ever answered a lender’s question with “give us a few days” when it should have taken thirty seconds, this book is for you.
No. This is not a software manual, and you do not need an accounting or IT background to follow it. Greg writes from forty years on the controller’s desk, not from a textbook, and every concept is explained in plain language before any technical term is used. If you have ever tried to reconcile three spreadsheets that do not match, you already have everything you need to understand this book.
Looking Through the Windshield is available in several formats to fit how you like to read:
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Yes. Greg speaks with development company leadership teams, finance departments, and industry groups about building financial systems that are predictable and profitable. Contact him directly to discuss a talk, a workshop, or a working session with your team.
No. The framework in this book, People, Process, and Platform, applies regardless of what system you are running today. Greg happens to work with Acumatica, but the book is about the architecture your finance function needs, not a pitch for any one product.
The book follows a consistent structure across fourteen chapters, moving from the people and structure that make up a development company, through the five pillars of development accounting, to the reporting and dashboards that tie it all together. Each chapter opens with a real scene from a development team, then walks through the problem, why common approaches fail, and what to do instead.
The blueprint for turning a reactive development business, drowning in historical data, into a forward-looking operation that knows where it is headed before it gets there.
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