Sam Hallburn
Director of Operations | Devine Consulting
Presenter bio
Samantha Hallburn is the Director of Operations at Devine Consulting, where she brings more than 20 years of experience across finance, marketing, HR, and sales to the team’s operations and accounting departments. She founded her first bookkeeping firm in 2015 and before merging her firm with Devine in early 2026, Sam spent over a decade growing multiple businesses in the financial and consulting sectors and earning a strong reputation for her strategic insight and her dedication to helping business owners grow and thrive by teaching them to listen to the story their numbers are telling them.
Sam is an Intuit Accountant Council alumna, Insightful Accountant advisory board member, a member of the Woodard Trainer/Writer Coalition, and a former board member of Bozeman Professional Women. She was awarded Top 100 ProAdvisor of 2023, 2024, and 2025 by Insightful Accountant as well as Top Niche Practice ProAdvisor of 2025. She was also nominated for the 2023 Top 50 Women in Accounting awards.
QuickBooks for Contractors: Your Financials Are Talking. Are You Listening?
Most contractors don’t have a QuickBooks problem, they have a transparency problem. Thinking they can skip investing in the accuracy of their numbers leads to thousands upon thousands of lost dollars and sometimes, the demise of the business altogether. Accurate numbers tell a story: which jobs are actually profitable, where cash is quietly leaking, and whether the business can survive its next growth spurt. Most owners just aren’t set up to hear it, because "good enough" books were never built to talk back.
In this session, we will walk you through how a profit and loss report in QuickBooks can look right, but actually be wrong. Attendees leave with a clear picture of what their financials should look like in QuickBooks Online, AND be telling them. The goal is for you to walk away with a better picture of what it actually looks like to run a contracting business that makes decisions from real numbers.
Target audience: Owners and decision makers at contracting, subcontracting, and trade firms
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