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Make it easy for your entire crew to track expenses and stay on top of receipts.

5 Steps to Track Construction Expenses from the Job Site

Jim Eitel

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Jim Eitel, Ambrook team member and owner of Eitel Valley Farms, built a custom command center for his ranch with ChatGPT. He shares three practical tips for other operators to do the same.

Build a Business Dashboard with AI: 3 Tips from an Owner-Operator

Learn which accounting method will work best for your business

Understanding Accounting Methods: Cash vs Accrual Basis

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While AI can’t make final decisions on the right funding for your operation, it can be a helpful tool for sourcing opportunities and getting an application started.

How to Build an AI Agent for Grant Applications

Introducing your number one tool for managing business debt and risk.

What Is a Balance Sheet?

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Build a payments workflow where estimates convert directly to invoices and all your documents are accessible in one place, so it’s easier to keep track of jobs and get paid for your work.

Create a Construction Estimate That Converts Directly to an Invoice

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Errors in your books start off small, but can eventually compound into inaccurate financials. This lesson walks you through how to build an AI workflow that helps check your ledger for early tagging mistakes, missing information, and atypical transactions.

Review Your Ledger Faster with AI Tools

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When you track expenses and revenue by the job, you can see job-level profitability and use it to adjust future pricing or inform the way you resource projects.

Running Your First Job Profitability Report

Customers paying late? Want to get paid faster? It might be time to take a closer look at your accounts receivable. 

Accounts Receivable (AR): Definitions, Best Practices and Examples

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From labor costs to materials, knowing the details of your cash flow is the first step to building a more efficient and profitable construction business. This lesson walks you through how to set up an accurate chart of accounts as a contractor, so you can easily track different types of income and expenses as you take on new jobs.

The Contractor’s Chart of Accounts: How to Structure Your Books

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Build a report in ChatGPT that analyzes your operation’s ledger and helps you prepare for the upcoming week. From a transaction analysis to an aging AR/AP report, in this lesson we’ll cover how you can use AI to understand your weekly cash flow.

How to Build a Weekly Financial Health Report in ChatGPT

Don’t want to pay your suppliers too early, but also don’t want to pay them too late? It’s time to take a closer look at accounts payable.

Accounts Payable (AP): Definitions, Best Practices and Examples 

Having these conversations early can help you make informed decisions that reduce tax surprises, protect cash flow and support the long-term success of the operation.

Five Things to Ask Your Tax Professional About for 2026

Understanding Section 263A helps agricultural producers avoid costly tax surprises and make informed decisions as their operation grows, changes or transitions to the next generation.

Section 263A and the UNICAP Rules: A Simple Rundown

Choosing the right balance sheet value for your assets can help you make better decisions, plan for growth, prepare for succession and save you time when applying for loans or grants.

Cost vs. Market Value: Which One Should I Use?

Finish the year strong, clean up your books and start the new year with confidence.

Year-End Close: A Checklist for Agricultural Producers

Debits and credits are the building blocks of your farm accounting operation, keeping your farm’s financial records accurate and meaningful. Here’s how they work.

Debits and Credits: A Practical Guide

Completing Form 1065 can be tricky if you have many different types of partners—family members, landowners, and hired hands—contributing to your operation. Here’s how it works. 

A Simple Guide to Form 1065: Return of Partnership Income

Track where your money comes from, where it’s going and how each part of the business is doing.

What’s My General Ledger and How Does It Work?

Fixed assets are the backbone of many agricultural operations, providing the tools and resources farmers and ranchers need to keep operating day-to-day. 

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