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Construction bookkeeping for Lebanon contractors

Lebanon is home base. Bookkeeping for Lebanon contractors

Most of the work here is residential and small commercial: remodelers, concrete, framing, roofing, and specialty subs who also run jobs in Sweet Home, Brownsville, and Albany. The books usually break the same way. Labor and materials sit in one pile, two jobs are losing money, and the owner does not see it until the bank account is tight.

How much more profit could you make?

How much more profit could you make in 120 hours of work? A Lebanon owner doing the books at night is not bidding the next job or finishing that project and getting paid.

 

Let’s take bookkeeping off your plate — and make that happen.

Discovering one profits leak where materials are coded to overhead can cover a year of bookkeeping. The next leak found is profit you can use on a truck payment or a draw.

our solutions

Bookkeeping services tailored to your business

QuickBooks setup by job

A new file, or a reset of the one you have, built around jobs instead of a generic small-business chart of accounts.

Labor, materials, and subs get a place to land on the job. Items, classes, and the job list match how you bid and how you run crews.

Reports after this mean something. A company profit-and-loss stops being the only number you have. You can see a job while it is still open, not after the year is closed. Setup is what makes the monthly reports worth reading.

monthly job-cost reports

Each month you get a report of which jobs made money, which did not, and what is still open. Billed versus earned stays separate. Retainage is not treated as spendable cash.

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This is the report you use to repeat a bid or stop taking one. It is also the report that answers the crew question, the truck question, and the draw. A busy month and a tight account stop being a mystery. One profit leak shown in that report can pay for the bookkeeping. The next one is profit.

Cleanup

A separate project for books that are behind, miscoded, or never built for jobs.

Scope is clear before the work starts: how far back, which accounts, and what “current” means.

 

Done before tax season, a bank conversation, or a bond package. Monthly bookkeeping starts after the file is brought up to date.

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You stop reconstructing the whole year in March. Your tax preparer gets clean books.

A banker or bonding agent sees job numbers, not a mess.

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The first profit leak we find often covers the cleanup. You also get the time back. Time you could use to bid and complete more work.

Monthly bookkeeping

Categorizing, bank and card reconciliation, and a close each month.

Transactions land on the job they belong to. 

Bookkeeping comes off your plate. Those hours go on estimates, change orders, and the work that makes profit. 

Job-Cost Health Check

A quick phone call. You choose the time that fits into your schedule.

We talk about your business, how many jobs are open, and how your books work today.  We scope cleanup first if it is needed, then monthly bookkeeping. If Marshall Bookkeeping LLC is not a good fit for your company, I say that on the call.

You leave with a clear next step.

Frequently asked questions

Do you meet in Lebanon?

Is a cleanup and monthly bookkeeping two different things?

The work is done in QuickBooks Online, and the books health check is completed with a phone call.  We can meet in person, but it is not necessary.

Cleanup can be a one-time project before your tax preparer asks for the file.

Monthly bookkeeping is separate, and it starts after the books are current.

Pricing is provided separately for each.

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