Albany Oregon construction bookkeeping for contractors
Albany Oregon and surrounding areas construction bookkeeping for contractors
Albany Oregon contractors often run crews in Millersburg, Jefferson, and Salem while the office stays in town. Fuel, shared labor, and materials bought for one job get dumped into overhead, and the Albany job looks more profitable than it was. That is also how a truck or a hire looks affordable on the bank balance and is not. Construction bookkeeping for contractors can fix that.
The cost of the hours spent in the books
The cost is the hours. About 120 a year if the books take ten hours a month. How much more work could you bid with those hours? How much more money could you make with that work?
Let’s take bookkeeping off your plate — and make that happen. One profit leak discovered can pay for the service. The next one is extra money.
Bookkeeping services tailored to your business
job-cost setup, monthly reports, and a cleanup scoped before a bank or bonding conversation.
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.
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.
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.
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 question
Can you clean up the books before I talk to the bank?
Yes. Cleanup is a separate project with a clear scope. Monthly service starts after the file is current and will be priced seperately.