Industries · Construction
Job costing that matches your bids. WIP schedules your banker can read. Certified payroll done right. A CPA who knows how the work actually gets done.
Why It Matters
A CPA who solves problems with modern tools. Not your typical CPA firm.
Most accountants can record what happened on a job. Far fewer can tell you whether that job actually made money, whether your bid was off, whether your equipment costs are out of line, or whether your prevailing-wage reporting is going to pass scrutiny. Construction has its own accounting rules, its own software, its own compliance obligations, and its own ways of going sideways.
We work with general contractors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, framers, concrete, and other trades businesses across Indiana. We speak the language. WIP, retainage, change orders, T&M, lump sum, prevailing wage, certified payroll. None of it needs to be explained to us first.
And we use modern tools to do the work faster and more accurately than a manual process ever could. That keeps your monthly fee reasonable while giving you better visibility into your business than most contractors ever get.
Where Construction Books Go Wrong
If your books cannot show you whether the last 10 jobs were profitable, your next bid is a guess. We set up cost coding that ties actuals back to original estimates so you can price the next one with confidence.
Banks and sureties expect a specific format. We produce WIP schedules that match what they ask for, not a generic report dump that triggers follow-up questions.
Prevailing-wage jobs require WH-347 filings, fringe tracking, and specific reporting. Missing or wrong filings can put your bid eligibility at risk on future public work.
If you cannot pull up how much retainage is owed to you across active jobs in 30 seconds, you are leaving money on the table. We give retainage its own account and dashboard.
Capitalize or expense, Section 179 or regular depreciation, what counts as a repair versus an improvement. These choices change your tax bill by real money. A CPA should be making the call.
Construction cash flow runs on a delay. Forecasting helps you plan payroll, hire confidently, and know when to bid the next big job. We build the forecast so you can sleep through draw cycles.
Services Built for Contractors
Monthly bookkeeping with cost coding by job, phase, and category. Reports tie back to your bids so you know which jobs made money.
More on bookkeeping →Weekly WH-347 filings, fringe benefit tracking, prevailing wage compliance, and clean reporting to general contractors and public agencies.
More on payroll →Cash flow forecasting, banking and bonding support, growth planning, and the strategic finance work that grows a construction business.
More on outsourced CFO →Tools We Work With
We use what fits your size and your work. No vendor pressure.
QBO with the right job-costing add-ons works for most small and mid-sized contractors.
For builders and remodelers running projects start to finish, with estimating and change orders.
AP and subcontractor payment tools that integrate cleanly with your books.
Procore, CoConstruct, Sage 100 Contractor, others. We have worked with most of what's out there.
Common Questions
Yes. Certified payroll is one of the niches we work in. We handle the weekly WH-347 filings, fringe benefit tracking, and the reporting required by the general contractor or public agency on the job. If your current provider does not handle this cleanly, it is worth talking to us.
Yes. We prepare WIP schedules that match the format your banker, lender, or surety expects. Most bonding companies and construction lenders ask for specific reporting, and we format it to their requirements rather than handing them a generic template.
We do catch-up work regularly. If your job cost data is incomplete, miscategorized, or just missing for months, we work backward from your bank activity, change orders, and invoices to rebuild it. Once historical jobs are clean, we set up a system to keep current jobs accurate going forward.
Retainage gets its own account so you always know how much is owed to you across active jobs. Progress billing is tracked against contract value and original bid, with variance flagged when actuals start to diverge from estimate. Both are normal parts of a construction engagement, not bolt-on add-ons.
Yes. QuickBooks Online with job-costing add-ons, Buildertrend, Procore, and others. We will help you pick the right one for your business size and the kind of work you bid on. Sometimes the right answer is sticking with what you have and connecting it better. Sometimes it is replacing the whole stack.
Equipment versus expense is a tax and cash flow decision, not a clerical one. We help you decide what to capitalize, what to expense, what to depreciate over what life, and when Section 179 or bonus depreciation makes sense. The wrong call can cost you thousands in taxes you did not need to pay.
Book a free 30-minute conversation. We will talk through your job costing setup and tell you what we would change.