Bookkeeping for Phoenix Construction & Trades — Know What Every Job Made.
You bid it. You built it. You should be able to say what it made. Most contractors can't, because the books pile every job into one number. I put the costs back where they belong, close the month, and hand you statements that hold up at tax time.
- Margin per job, not one lumped monthly P&L
- Labor, materials, subs, and equipment costed to the job
- Retention, draws, progress billing, and change orders booked correctly
- Books reconciled and closed monthly — no tax-season scramble
- Enrolled Agent and Intuit Platinum ProAdvisor, doing the work himself
Behind on the books?
Most construction files start with a cleanup. Get a catch-up quote first, then monthly books pick up from a clean file. Cleanup is quoted separately, so you see that number on its own.
Get a Catch-Up Quote Call (602) 694-9930Already current and just want job costing set up right? Send a note and say so.
Enrolled Agent — admitted to practice before the IRS
Intuit Platinum ProAdvisor
What construction books need that generic bookkeeping misses
A contractor's file is not a retail file. The money moves by job, gets held back as retention, and arrives on a draw schedule. Books that ignore that still balance — they just can't tell you anything useful.
Job costing that holds up
Every job carries its own labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment. You stop guessing which work is worth bidding again, and you find the jobs that were quietly losing money while the monthly total looked fine.
A close you can plan from
Bank and credit card accounts reconciled, transactions categorized, general ledger maintained, and a profit and loss and balance sheet you can actually read. Current books mean answers when a lender, a bonding agent, or an insurance auditor asks.
Tax-ready, not tax-panic
The statements are built to be filed from. Returns go through Double D Tax Services, Inc., and as an Enrolled Agent I handle the planning ahead of it — quarterly estimates, entity questions, and equipment decisions while they can still change the outcome.
One person for your job costs and your taxes
Start with a straight answer on what your books need. If cleanup comes first, you'll get that quoted on its own before anything ongoing.
Phoenix contractors, trades, and service businesses that run jobs and crews
- General contractors
- Remodelers and custom builders
- Concrete and masonry
- Framing and carpentry
- Roofing
- HVAC
- Plumbing
- Electrical
- Drywall and paint
- Flooring and tile
- Landscape and hardscape
- Excavation and grading
- Welding and fabrication
- Solar and low voltage
- Specialty subcontractors
Serving Phoenix, Scottsdale, Tempe, Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria, and throughout Arizona. If your work is job-based and crew-based, the same approach applies — see monthly bookkeeping plans, or start from the overview of how everything fits together.
Common questions from contractors
Can you set up job costing in QuickBooks?
Yes. That's usually the first thing I fix. Labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment get mapped to the job they belong to, so your profit and loss shows margin per job instead of one lumped total for the month. I'm an Intuit Platinum ProAdvisor, which is Intuit's top certification tier, so I can build the file from scratch, repair one that was set up badly, or take over the file you already have.
My books are months behind. Do we fix that first?
Yes, and it's worth doing in that order. Job costing applied to a messy file just produces confident-looking numbers that are wrong. Catch-up cleanup is quoted separately from monthly bookkeeping, so you can see what the cleanup costs before committing to anything ongoing. Once the file is clean, monthly books pick up from there.
Do you handle retention, draws, and progress billing?
Yes. Retention held on your receivables, draw schedules, progress billing, and change orders all need to land in the books correctly or your job margins and your cash position both read wrong. These are the details generic bookkeeping tends to miss on construction files, and they're a normal part of the work here.
Do you do my taxes too?
Yes. Tax returns are prepared through Double D Tax Services, Inc., and because I'm an Enrolled Agent I also handle the planning that happens before filing season, including quarterly estimates, entity questions, and equipment and vehicle decisions while there's still time to act on them. One person understands both your books and your return, so nothing gets lost being handed between a bookkeeper and a separate tax preparer.
What does it cost?
Monthly bookkeeping is quoted from a free consultation, after I've looked at your file and what the business actually needs. Catch-up cleanup is quoted separately. The monthly service plans are laid out on the Phoenix bookkeeping page, and no long-term contract is required.
Find out what your books need
Send the catch-up form, call me, or write if you'd rather start there. You'll get a straight answer on scope either way.