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Construction bookkeeping
Construction bookkeeping and job costing for contractors and the trades.
Find out which jobs are making you money. We set up and maintain job costing, project tracking, and class reporting built for construction and blue-collar businesses.
Overview
Construction books work differently.
Money comes in through deposits and progress payments. Materials get bought for three jobs in one trip to the supplier. Labor gets split across crews and sites. A generic bookkeeping setup lumps all of that together, and you end up with one profit number for the whole year and no idea which jobs produced it.
Our bookkeeping roots are in construction and blue-collar work, and job costing is where we really dig in. We set up your books so every cost lands on the right job, then keep them that way month after month. The result is a clear view of what each job earned, which helps you price your next bid with confidence.
What we handle for contractors
- Job costing
- Project tracking
- Class tracking and reporting
- Profitability by job, crew, or division
- Cleanup of messy construction books
- Vendor and subcontractor bills
- Payroll and quarterly payroll tax filings
- Monthly financial statements
Job costing, explained
A report card for every project
Job costing assigns every material purchase, labor hour, and subcontractor bill to the job it belongs to. At the end of a project, you can see what you bid, what it really cost, and what you kept.
Without it, a busy year can hide a handful of jobs that quietly lost money. With it, you can spot the patterns: which job types pay best, where materials run over, and whether your bids are covering your true labor costs.
What job costing shows you
- Which jobs and job types are most profitable
- Whether your bids cover real material and labor costs
- Where cost overruns keep happening
- How change orders affect your margins
- Which crews or divisions carry the business
In their words
Built by people who know construction
“Professional, reliable, and easy to work with.” Ryan, Rollo Welding & Fabrication
Great bookkeeper! Honest and trustworthy and so well versed in construction accounting and job costing!
Tiffany
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Can you fix job costing that was never set up right?
Yes. We can clean up past jobs where it makes sense and set up job costing correctly going forward, so your reports are accurate from here on out.
What software do you use for job costing?
We typically set up job costing in QuickBooks Online using projects and classes, and we can connect tools like Bill.com and Dext to keep vendor bills and receipts organized.
Do you work with contractors outside Utah?
Yes. We work over Zoom with cloud-based software and currently support clients in 13 states. See where we work.
Find out which jobs are really paying off.
Book a consultation and tell us where things stand. We’ll take it from there.