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Construction bookkeeping that keeps up with your jobs

Monthly books, job costing and WIP that close on time, so you know which jobs make money while you can still do something about the ones that don’t.

Sound familiar?

Where construction books usually break

Sample problems. The live page lists the ones Atlas actually sees in construction clients.

Job costs land in one big bucket
Labor and materials post to the company, not the job, so a losing job hides inside a profitable year until it is too late to change the price.
Retainage disappears
Held-back payments sit outside the books, so receivables look smaller than they are and nobody chases them at closeout.
Progress billing and the P&L disagree
Billing ahead of the work makes a month look great and the next one look terrible, and neither tells you how the jobs are doing.

One or two sentences that turn the page from the problems above to what the service includes below.

What's included

Sample inclusions, pending the package details.

Monthly close by the 15th
Bank, card and loan accounts reconciled, with a P&L and balance sheet you can read.
Job costing
Labor, materials and subs coded to the job, so every job has its own margin.
Work-in-progress schedule
Over- and under-billings tracked, so revenue matches the work actually done.
Construction chart of accounts
Set up for contractors from day one, not retrofitted from a generic template.

A worked example

The same $86,000 job, costed from the bid and costed from the books.

The bid said 14% margin. Job costing showed 5.5%, while there was still time to raise a change order for the extra framing labor.