Construction and trades businesses live and die by two things a basic bookkeeper won't give you: accurate job costing and cash timing. A job can look profitable on the bid and lose money by completion, and a growing backlog can starve you of cash even in a good year. We keep the books clean and job-costed, so you know your real margin by job, your work-in-progress position, and what cash looks like across the next 13 weeks.
The numbers that matter in construction & trades
- True margin by job, not just company-wide profit
- Work-in-progress (WIP) and over/under billing
- Cash timing against progress billing and retainage
- Labor and materials cost against estimates
- Which job types and crews actually make money
Two ways we help construction & trades:
Bookkeeping gets your books clean and reliable. Controller services turn those numbers into the decisions above.
Talk about your construction & trade businessCommon questions
Do you understand job costing and WIP?
Yes. Margin by job, WIP schedules, and over/under billing are core to how we report for construction and trades — it's the difference between knowing and guessing.
We deal with retainage and progress billing. Can you handle that?
Yes. We build cash forecasting around your actual billing and retainage timing, which is where most trades businesses get caught short.
Can you work with our field or project software?
Yes. We reconcile financials against your field/project tools so job costs and margins reflect what actually happened.