Thanks for the help LK. I'm going to complete my profile now.
I'm a contractor working in the family business. For the last 20+ years we have only treated it as a side business since we all have other jobs. My father started the business in the early 80's. We're now looking at taking on larger contracts and I'm attempting to build an excel estimating model that will help us. We've never really analyzed how efficient we were compared to any standards. I want to use this as a benchmark to fully understand our efficiencies and where we can improve.
I see where it might not be the best approach to estimate (who can really break every function down like that). I just want to take some data and see how I can use it in my estimating model.
Thanks for everyone's input! I will take it and learn from it.
