WIP
Job costing & over/under billing
Most contractors find out a job lost money after it is finished. Before that, the monthly P&L is telling a story that timing invented: billings ahead of the work, costs landing in the wrong period, profit that is really just a draw schedule. We build the job costing and the WIP schedule that show you the truth every month. Clean numbers are also exactly what your bank and your surety credit.
Construction accounting · assurance · tax · across the Southeast
Progress billings, retainage, change orders, and the WIP schedule underneath all of it. Your books have moving parts a general accountant misses. Here is where we come in.
Clean job costing, WIP schedules, and over/under-billing tracking, so you know which jobs are making money.
Learn more →02 / SystemsThe right software, set up the right way for construction, including platform migrations and workflows that keep your books in sync with the field.
Learn more →03 / AdvisoryDecision-ready reporting, cash-flow forecasting, and the ongoing advisory support growing contractors need.
Learn more →04 / AssuranceReview, compilation, and agreed-upon procedure engagements that satisfy your surety and your bank.
Learn more →05 / TaxProactive, year-round planning that fits how your contracts recognize revenue, not reactive compliance.
Learn more →06 / ValuationValuation support for succession planning, ownership transitions, internal planning, and transactions.
Learn more →07 / CleanupResolve historical accounting issues, strengthen reporting, and restore financial clarity.
Learn more →Revenue you've earned but haven't billed. Costs on the books for jobs that won't close for months. A bonding agent who needs to trust your numbers. This is its own discipline, and it's the only one we practice.
WIP schedules, earned-vs-billed, and the fade analysis your surety actually reads. Not an afterthought, the center of the work.
The CPA who scopes your engagement is the one who does the work and signs the return. No handoffs, no learning curve on your account.
Reporting that ties to the jobsite, so the numbers mean something to the people running the work.
Tax and cash-flow decisions happen mid-project. We plan in real time, not in hindsight.
Practical writing on construction accounting, tax, and bonding. The same guidance we'd give a client across the table.
The wage on the paycheck is not what an hour costs you. Here's every component of labor burden, the denominator almost everyone gets wrong, and a worked example that turns a $32 wage into $53 of real cost.
If your jobs open and close the same day, percentage-of-completion and WIP schedules do not apply to you. Here is what replaces them, and where service shops actually lose money.
The prescriptive close to the series: the operational-plus-ledger stack we'd actually recommend for service trades, project builders, and site/civil contractors, plus a simple 'fine for this, breaks at that' summary.