Construction accounting

Know which jobs make money—and when cash will arrive.

From beginning to end: job-cost accounting, work-in-progress reporting, cash forecasting, and coordinated corporate and individual tax support for contractors and construction businesses.

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Construction professionals coordinating work at an active job site

Built for construction accounting

Generic bookkeeping misses the operating story.

Industry-specific accounting starts with the questions leaders actually face, then builds the chart of accounts, close, reporting, and meetings around those decisions.

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QuickBooks job and class structure

Labor, material, subcontractor, and overhead coding

Job-cost and profitability reporting

WIP and backlog support

Retainage and receivables visibility

Cash planning around billing and payroll

A better monthly conversation

Measures we may organize around.

The final scorecard depends on your systems and goals. These are common starting points, not universal benchmarks.

Gross margin by jobEstimated cost to completeWIP over/under billingBacklog and pipelineReceivable and retainage agingLabor and overhead absorption

Field and office systems

Turn estimates, dispatch, jobs, invoices, and payments into reliable accounting.

Contractors often manage the work in field-service or construction software while QuickBooks holds the general ledger. We map customers, jobs, service lines, materials, labor, invoices, payments, merchant fees, and deposits; then reconcile the handoff so operational reports and financial statements agree.

Housecall ProScheduling, estimates, invoices, customer payments, recurring service plans, and QuickBooks-connected workflows.

ServiceTitanDispatch, field transactions, invoicing, payments, and accounting exports for service contractors.

BuildertrendProject budgets, change orders, customer billing, purchasing, and job-cost coordination.

JobberQuoting, scheduling, invoicing, payments, and service-business reporting.

ProcoreCommercial project commitments, costs, change management, and financial handoffs.

And other contractor platformsWe assess the available integration, export, and reporting path before defining the accounting workflow.

Common questions

Do you provide tax planning and returns?

Yes. Fogler CPA provides corporate and individual tax planning and return preparation, coordinated with the accounting work from beginning to end.

Do we have to change software?

Not automatically. We first evaluate the current system, reporting needs, data quality, and control gaps. A change should solve a real problem, not create a new one.

Can you clean up prior periods?

Historical cleanup can be scoped as an implementation project before the recurring accounting rhythm begins.