Cameron Signorini
I ran my construction accruals off WhatsApp, until live capture fixed that
Your construction accrual is only as honest as the three records behind it: docket, site diary, goods received — captured live, not rebuilt at month-end.
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Field notes on cost control
Construction is the contract, the docket, the program, and the margin that falls out of them. We write about all of it.
- Cameron Signorini
The labour payment claim mistakes your accounts team misses
The labour payment claim mistakes non-commercial staff make — unpaid hours shaved off overtime, missed award allowances, mis-banded hours — and the cost.
- Cameron Signorini
Substantiation is revenue — what every unbacked claim line costs you on a Tier 1 job
On a government-backed job, every claim line you can't substantiate at submission is revenue you don't collect. The four ways the money leaks, with a worked dollar example.
- Cameron Signorini
Cost-loaded programs — tying the schedule to the margin
Why the program and the cost report shouldn't be reconciled by hand, what cost-loading means, and how earned value turns a delay into a margin signal.
- Cameron Signorini
Live margin tracking — knowing what a job makes while it runs
Why month-end cost reports under-state cost, what live margin tracking actually means in commercial construction, and the data that makes it work.
- Cameron Signorini
Docket management in Australian construction — where the budget moves
Why the daily docket is the load-bearing record of cost on every job, how docket management leaks visibility in paper and WhatsApp, and how to fix it.
- Cameron Signorini
Security of Payment Act — the clock you can't afford to miss
How Security of Payment Act timeframes work across each Australian state, why a missed date hands over the full claim, and the evidence that defends one.