Services
Connect your monthly close, job margins and cash decisions.
Accounting and outsourced controller services for Washington specialty trade contractors, working with your existing bookkeeper. We turn your records into management reporting and a monthly owner discussion. The reports fit the way your contracting business works, with responsibilities and delivery dates set before work starts.
The Scope
What our contractor accounting service includes.
Management accounting gives you a clearer view of business performance. We bring together your monthly close, job costs and cash forecast so you can see where margins changed, which billing gaps need attention and when cash may be tight.
Monthly close oversight & financial reporting
We bring the month’s profit and loss statement, balance sheet and unresolved items into a management reporting pack. Onboarding sets the close checklist, reporting basis, supporting records and checking responsibilities.
Job-cost & margin reporting
We examine how job revenue and costs are organized, identify gaps and prepare job-level reporting. Your team supplies the operating facts needed to explain changes in margin.
Work-in-progress (WIP) schedules, where relevant
Where project work and usable records support it, we bring estimates, progress and billing into a work-in-progress (WIP) schedule. Your operations team supplies current estimates to complete. Service and maintenance businesses receive reporting suited to how their work runs.
Rolling 13-week cash forecasting
We bring expected collections and payments into a 13-week cash flow forecast. The forecast shows assumptions and timing so you can discuss alternatives before committing cash. Its refresh schedule is specified in your engagement.
Monthly owner discussion & next actions
We connect the financial pack, job exceptions and cash assumptions to decisions and a written action list. Meeting duration, participants and follow-up responsibilities are set for your engagement.
These reports can support discussions with owners, lenders and sureties. We check recipient-specific requirements separately; acceptance of a report or financing decision remains with that recipient.
Sample 3-Page Contractor Pack: WIP Schedule, Cash
Forecast, Margin Exceptions. Example figures demonstrate the reporting format.
Explore the sample reports →
See what your reporting can look like.
Explore a project WIP schedule, a 13-week cash forecast and a margin-exceptions page, worked through with example figures and every calculation written out. Your reporting pack is tailored to the work and records in your engagement.
The PDF uses selectable text; the accessible web version of the same material is the contractor WIP and cash forecast examples page.
Fees & Onboarding
A fixed fee, agreed before work starts.
Monthly controller retainer
$3,500 to $6,500 per monthYour fixed monthly fee depends on the agreed scope and complexity. We confirm the fee and deliverables before work starts.
Onboarding & setup
From $3,500, one-timeOnboarding establishes access, reporting requirements, the close process and the starting information needed for the engagement. The proposal separates onboarding from recurring service and identifies the service-start date.
Cleanup, exceptional job-cost reconstruction, additional entities and other work outside the agreed scope are quoted separately. No payment is needed to request the free Close Check.
The Boundaries
How controller support works with your bookkeeper.
Your bookkeeper or office manager continues day-to-day transaction entry and provides the records needed for the close. Your operations team supplies job progress, estimates and upcoming commitments. Your tax professional handles the tax-return work agreed with them.
Daily bookkeeping, payroll processing, income-tax returns, attestation and compilation engagements, and unlimited catch-up work are outside this recurring controller service.