These exercises follow one company through one project, from the first sign-in
to the closed job. Each exercise builds on the one before, uses the real
Structally screens, and states the figures you should see. Work through them in
order to learn the whole system, or read a single exercise to see a workflow in
context.
Cedar Ridge Training is a general contractor in Bend, Oregon. It moves its
books to Structally on July 1, 2026, with $250,000.00 in the bank, $85,000.00 of
equipment and a $40,000.00 equipment loan.
Its first project in Structally is job J-101 Lakeview Clinic Expansion for
Lakeview Medical Partners:
Contract
$480,000.00, raised to $516,000.00 by one change order
Estimated cost
$360,000.00, raised to $387,000.00
Schedule
July 6 to October 30, 2026; finished and closed on October 24
Billing
Monthly AIA-style pay applications, 10% retainage
Subcontractors
High Desert Concrete, Brightway Electric, Summit Drywall (10% retainage)
Suppliers
Pine Valley Lumber (purchase order), Cascade Site Services (monthly, no commitment)
Result
Gross profit $129,000.00 (25.0%), net income $128,975.00
Use a training company. The exercises post real transactions. Do them in a
company set aside for training, never in your live books. Ask your Structally
administrator for one; it starts with the standard chart of accounts, as in
Exercise A.
Your access. Exercise A is done as a Company Admin. The later exercises
need Edit access to the areas they use, and the approval steps need a
Company Admin or Accountant (see Roles and Permissions).
Dates on the screens. The exercises were entered on October 24, 2026, with
transaction dates from June to October. Stamps that record when something was
done (such as accepted 2026-10-24 or Balances as of 2026-10-24) show the day
of entry, not the transaction date. When you do the exercises, those stamps show
your own date.
Document numbers. Structally numbers documents in the order they are
saved. If you save in a different order, or make an extra mistake, your numbers
differ from the ones shown; the amounts do not.
Mistakes are part of it. Two duplicates entered by accident while the
exercises were prepared were kept and are corrected in Exercise G, the way you
would correct them in real books.