by Heather Hurley | Sep 30, 2026 | Finance & Accounting, Marketing Agency, Operations
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: a full pipeline doesn’t guarantee a healthy bank account. Plenty of agencies are busy, booked out, and still losing money on a quarter of their projects without realizing it. Agencies lose money on 20-30% of projects without...
by Heather Hurley | Sep 28, 2026 | Deltek Costpoint, Government Contracting
Guess who’s back? Breadcrumbs are making their return in Costpoint 2026.3! If you’ve been working in the new Costpoint UI over the past several months, you may have noticed that one familiar navigation feature was missing: breadcrumbs. The good news is...
by Heather Hurley | Sep 10, 2026 | Astrata, Finance & Accounting, Government Contracting
Government contractors run on precision. Every transaction, personnel change, and prepaid expense needs to be accurate, auditable, and easy to trace back to its source. Yet many finance teams still rely on manual processes and disconnected spreadsheets to manage this...
by Heather Hurley | Sep 3, 2026 | Astrata, Finance & Accounting, Government Contracting
It’s been a while, so allow us to reintroduce you to Astrata. Over the next few weeks, we will take a closer look at the applications and modules that make up the Astrata platform. Today, we’ll start with an introduction to the platform as a whole. If your...
by Heather Hurley | Aug 27, 2026 | Finance & Accounting, Marketing Agency
Quick answer: Billable hours are the time your team spends on client work you can invoice. Non-billable hours cover everything else—internal meetings, admin, training, and business development. Both matter, but agencies that don’t track them separately often...
