ACCOUNTING FOR PAINTING CONTRACTORS
BOOKKEEPING & TAXES FOR PAINTING CONTRACTORS.
Job-costed, tax-ready books for painting contractors, from a team that knows your margin is almost entirely labor.
- FLAT MONTHLY FEE
- JOB-LEVEL PROFIT
- BOOKS CLOSED MONTHLY
BUILT FOR THE TRADE
LABOR IS THE JOB, MATERIAL IS THE ROUNDING.
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HOURS ARE THE PRODUCT
Material is a small share of a paint job, so crew hours land on the job, and that is where the margin is won or lost.
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REPAINT VERSUS NEW CONSTRUCTION
Builder work and homeowner repaints price differently and collect differently, so they are tracked apart.
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SUBBED CREWS
Crews paid by the job or the square foot post to the job they painted, not to a general labor account.
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PREP AND CALLBACKS
Prep time and return visits are invisible in a bid and expensive in reality, so they are captured where you can see them.
WHAT WE HANDLE
FOUR THINGS, DONE RIGHT.
Bookkeeping and tax preparation are the base. Job costing and WIP tracking are added when you need them.
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JOB COSTING
Every cost lands on the job that earned it, so you know which jobs made money.
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MONTHLY BOOKKEEPING
Books closed monthly, reconciled, and ready for whoever asks.
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WIP TRACKING
Work in progress tracked so revenue matches the work actually completed.
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TAX PREPARATION
Business and owner returns prepared from books we already know are right.
WHY IT MATTERS
PRICE THE HOURS, NOT THE GALLONS.
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BID FROM REAL HOURS
Actual crew time per job tells you whether your square-foot number holds up.
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SEE WHICH WORK PAYS
Builder repaints and custom homeowner work rarely earn the same, and separated you can finally tell.
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NO TAX-SEASON SURPRISES
Clean books all year mean the return is a formality, not a fire drill.
QUESTIONS BEFORE WE START
STRAIGHT ANSWERS. NO RUNAROUND.
Everything you should know before trusting us with your books and taxes.
STILL HAVE A QUESTION?
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Yes, provided the hours reach us that way. On painting work labor is nearly the whole cost, so that is where the answer lives.
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Yes. They price differently, collect differently and carry different margins, and blended together neither one tells you anything.
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As labor against the original job, so a job that needed a second visit reads as what it actually cost.
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Yes. Catch-up work is something we do regularly. We will tell you what it takes to get current before you commit to anything.
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No. We do not provide payroll services. We do make sure crew and sub costs land on the job that incurred them, so labour shows up where it actually went.
BUILT FOR YOUR TRADE
ACCOUNTING THAT KNOWS THE JOB.
From job costing to retainage and progress billing,
we understand the financial pressure behind every project.
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ROOFING
CONTRACTORSClaim work, supplements and deductibles accounted for on the job they belong to.
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BUILDERS &
GENERAL CONTRACTORSCosts coded per job across every project running at once, so you can see which ones earned.
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PLUMBING
CONTRACTORSService calls and construction work kept apart, so neither one hides the other.
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HVAC
CONTRACTORSInstall work and service work costed separately instead of averaged into one margin.
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REMODELING
CONTRACTORSApproved change orders tracked against the original contract instead of vanishing into one total.
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ELECTRICAL
CONTRACTORSTrack labor by who actually worked it and hold costs on jobs still waiting to pass inspection.
