Construction Accounting & Consulting

Whether you’re a contractor, architect, or engineer, it takes planning and determined strategy to protect your profits and keep your competitors at a distance.

Given the maze of federal, state, and county personal property taxes, your company needs tax professionals who understand how these rules effect your business. We can analyze your current position and provide suggestion to maximize your profitability.

Accounting and taxation issues for the construction industry are unique and complex.   To assist our contractor clients, we provide a full range of services,  including attest services for Public Works and Sureties.  We also provide Financial Statement Write-Up, Bookkeeping services, as well as reconciliation services for completed contract to percentage-of-completion method conversion.  

Job Costing: The backbone of accounting and project control is a solid job cost system. Unless this area of your operation is under control, you are probably losing profits.

R. Scot Haug, CPA has the capabilities and tools to analyze your system, identify any shortcomings and make sure costs are being properly allocated. We can also assist you in the proper recognition of income on long term projects. Custom designed reports will enable your office and field staff to properly control costs on projects, and will allow you to identify problem areas in a timely manner.

Job costing is your most important tool in controlling costs and increasing productivity and profits. If you've been judging your financial condition on a job, or overall, by the balance in your bank account, better job costing will help you avoid future surprises. We can help you obtain the data you need to control costs and increase productivity and profits.

Payroll Services: Our payroll service integrates Payroll with Job Cost. This service provides the contractor with detailed information on Job hours and Labor costs as well as Certified and Union Payroll Reports, if required. 

We can provide software recommendations to meet the estimating, costing, and reporting requirements of contractors small to large.  For more information on supported software and networking services, see our Technology page.