Bookkeeping for Contractors & Trades
Materials, subs, deposits, equipment, jobs that span months: a trade business has a lot of money moving in different directions. I keep it clean in QuickBooks so you know which jobs actually made money.
Why contractor books get messy fast
- You can't see job profit. Without costs tied to jobs, everything pools together and a money-losing job hides behind a good one.
- Deposits aren't revenue yet.A customer deposit on a job you haven't done is money you owe work against, not profit to spend.
- Materials and subs pile up. Supply runs, lumber yards, and subcontractor checks add up fast and get lost without clean tracking.
- Equipment and the truck. Tools, the truck, fuel, repairs: real costs that need to be categorized consistently to mean anything.
How I keep it clean
- Job costing that works. Materials, labor, and subs tracked by job so you can finally see true profit per project.
- Deposits handled right. Customer deposits and progress payments recorded so your income reflects work actually done.
- Subs and materials categorized. Supplier and subcontractor spend sorted consistently, with 1099 contractors flagged for tax time.
- Tax-time ready. Clean, current books your accountant or tax preparer can work from without untangling a year of supply-run receipts.
I keep books for businesses with real overhead
I run small businesses myself and I've cleaned up books with messy materials spend, equipment costs, and income that wasn't landing where it should. I know how to separate the cost of doing a job from the profit on it, so your numbers actually tell you what to bid next time.
Clean books, the right way
I'm a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor and fully insured, so your financial details stay confidential. This is bookkeeping that keeps your records tax-time ready and works alongside your accountant; I don't file taxes or do CPA work.
QuickBooks Certified by Intuit · Levels 1 & 2Want your job costs handled?
Tell me a little about your business: how many jobs you run, whether you use subs, how you take deposits. Then I'll point you to the right plan and a real price, usually within a day.