Feature From The Ohio Society of CPAs
Doug Houser, CPA, principal and director of Rea & Associates’ construction and real estate services team, was recently interviewed by the Ohio Society of CPAs to talk about how the COVID-19 crisis is impacting the construction industry. Below is a sample of the article. You can click the button below to read the entire piece.
More businesses are being forced to shut down as COVID-19 spreads throughout the country. But like accounting, the construction industry remains an essential business, and Doug Houser, CPA, is trying to make sure work gets done.
Under normal circumstances, Houser’s primary responsibility is completing the audits and reviews for his clients, and ensuring he gets them to the right people in time so they can continue to operate and bid on projects that year. But with COVID-19 impacting the industry, his goal is to make sure he can still do business as usual but also to communicate coronavirus updates and guidelines with his clients.
“We need to make sure we’re having the conversation all together,” Houser said. “Not only the client and ourselves, but the banks and the bonding surety agent so we can talk through the issues (and) the impact, so everybody can understand how things look and how things are anticipated to go.”