Bookkeeping in Corvallis Oregon for construction contractors
Bookkeeping in Corvallis Oregon and surrounding areas
Corvallis and Philomath work is heavy on residential and remodel jobs, often several open at once. A company profit-and-loss will not tell you which remodel made money after labor. It also will not tell you whether owner pay is coming from profit or from the next customer’s deposit.
The cost of the hours spent in the books
How much more profit could you make in 120 hours of work? Those are the hours a Corvallis owner currently spends each year in the books.
Let’s take bookkeeping off your plate — and make that happen.
Bookkeeping services tailored to your business
QuickBooks setup by job
QuickBooks by job, monthly winner-and-loser reports, and cleanup before tax season.
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.
Bookkeeping in Corvallis Oregon includes 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
Do I have to drive to Lebanon?
No. The Books Health Check is a phone call. The monthly work is in QuickBooks Online.