ACCOUNTING FOR SPECIALTY TRADE CONTRACTORS
BOOKKEEPING & TAXES FOR SPECIALTY TRADE CONTRACTORS.
Job-costed, tax-ready books for specialty trade contractors, who work under somebody else’s schedule.
- FLAT MONTHLY FEE
- JOB-LEVEL PROFIT
- BOOKS CLOSED MONTHLY
BUILT FOR THE TRADE
SUBCONTRACTED WORK HAS ITS OWN MATH.
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YOU GET PAID WHEN THEY DO
Your cash flow runs on somebody else’s draw schedule, so receivables are tracked by general contractor and by job.
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UNIT-PRICE AND SQUARE-FOOT BIDDING
Margin lives in cost per unit, so costs are captured at a level that lets you check your own bid against reality.
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CREW PRODUCTIVITY
Labour is the biggest variable you control, and hours land on the job, so you can see which crews and which jobs perform.
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MATERIAL WASTE AND REWORK
Breakage and redo cost real money, and they post to the job rather than disappearing into overhead.
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
GET PAID FOR WHAT YOU BUILT.
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CHASE THE RIGHT INVOICES
Receivables tracked by general contractor show you who actually pays on time and who does not.
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CHECK YOUR OWN BID
Real cost per unit tells you whether the number you bid was ever going to work.
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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?
TALK TO STREAM-
The specialty trades that work under general contractors rather than contracting directly with owners. If your trade has its own page on this site, that page will be more specific than this one.
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Yes. Receivables are tracked by general contractor and by job, so slow payers are visible as a pattern rather than as a bad month.
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It changes what is worth measuring. Costs are captured so you can compare what a unit actually cost you against what you bid it at.
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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.
