EVERYTHING WE DO
CONTRACTOR ACCOUNTING SERVICES.
Stream’s construction accounting services are the whole line on one page: bookkeeping, job costing, WIP tracking and tax preparation for contractors — and nothing else.
- CONTRACTORS ONLY
- BOOKKEEPING & TAX PREP
- QUICKBOOKS ONLINE
HOW IT FITS TOGETHER
TWO SERVICES. NOT FIVE DEPARTMENTS.
Monthly bookkeeping and tax preparation are the base. Job costing, WIP tracking and 1099 filing are chosen as you need them and carry their own fees, set out in your agreement. You pay for what you use.
Bookkeeping is the base: reconciliation, coding and the monthly close. Contractors ask for returns and 1099s by name, so they are named below — but they are prepared from the books rather than reconstructed at year end.
Bookkeeping and the returns that come off it are the two things Stream sells. Everything on this page is one of them, or part of one of them.
Bookkeeping
Keeping the books, including the parts a general bookkeeper does not do. Job costing and WIP tracking are available alongside it, when the work calls for them. It arrives either as a cleanup that gets you current or as the monthly service that keeps you there. 1099 preparation runs off the same coded records, and carries a separate fee.
Tax preparation
Preparing and filing the returns. For a contracting business that usually means the entity’s federal return, the annual Texas franchise tax report, and the owner’s personal return — which is one job, not three, when the business is a pass-through. Every return is reviewed and approved by an in-house CPA before filing.
Stream is not a CPA firm. "CPA" refers to the individual Texas license held by Svetlana "Lana" Griffin.
THE LIST
FIVE THINGS CONTRACTORS ASK US FOR.
Each one links to the page that covers it properly. The three tax entries share a page, because they share a job.
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Cleanup Bookkeeping
Catch-up work for books that are behind, tangled, or were never really set up. A defined job with an end to it: the open months are reconciled and closed, and you finish holding a current set of books.
CLEANUP BOOKKEEPING -
Monthly Bookkeeping
The ongoing service. Books closed every month and tax-ready reports delivered on a schedule you can plan around. Add job costing or WIP tracking when the work calls for them.
MONTHLY BOOKKEEPING -
Business Tax Returns
Part of tax preparation, not a line of its own. Your entity’s federal return and the annual Texas franchise tax report, prepared from the books already being kept rather than from a folder handed over in March.
TAX PREPARATION -
Personal Tax Returns
Also part of tax preparation. When the business is a pass-through, the owner’s personal return and the business return are one problem read twice — so they are prepared together.
TAX PREPARATION -
1099 Preparation
This one falls out of the bookkeeping. Subcontractor payments are coded correctly through the year, so January is a filing step rather than a reconstruction of who was paid what. Prepared and filed from the same books. Carries a separate fee.
TAX PREPARATION
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.
