Job costing setup
Projects, cost codes, and items set up in QuickBooks Online so labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment land on the right job.
What you get: A cost code list that matches how you estimate, so estimates and actuals line up.
Know what every job is making while the crew is still on site.
Job Cost Bookkeeping keeps the books for contractors around Baton Rouge, with every cost coded to the job it belongs to. You see the margin on each job every month, not after the year closes.
| Contract amount | $148,500 |
|---|---|
| Labor | 31,240 |
| Materials | 42,860 |
| Subcontractors | 18,400 |
| Equipment | 6,150 |
| Cost to date | 98,650 |
| Estimated cost to complete | 19,350 |
| Projected gross profit | $30,500 |
20.5% projected margin on contract
How the books are kept
Coded to the job
Labor, materials, subcontractors, and equipment are assigned to a job and cost code when they’re entered, so job reports never depend on a year-end scramble.
Reconciled every month
Bank accounts, credit cards, and loans are tied out at each month end. If a number is on a report, there is support behind it.
Ready for your CPA
The books close clean at year end, with the reconciliations and schedules your tax preparer asks for already done.
Who keeps your books
Job Cost Bookkeeping is run by Slader Kinabrew. He started in 2022 handling monthly bookkeeping, bank reconciliations, payroll, and Louisiana sales and use tax filings for 30 small businesses in QuickBooks Online, then moved into public accounting to prepare and review income tax returns for corporations, partnerships, and individuals.
That background shapes how the work is done here. Your books are kept the way a tax preparer wants to receive them, so year end is a handoff instead of a cleanup. You work with Slader directly.
He holds a B.S. in Accounting from Southeastern Louisiana University and is based in Baton Rouge.
- Small businesses kept monthly in QuickBooks Online
- 30
- Income tax returns prepared, approximately
- 1,000
- In accounting since
- 2022
Contact
Tell us a little about your company and where your books stand. Slader will get back to you to set up a time to talk.
- Slader@jobcostla.com
- Phone
- (601) 628-7390
- Based in
- Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Helpful to have for the first call
- How many jobs you have open right now
- The accounting and payroll software you use today
- How current the books are
- Whether you bill progress payments or hold retainage
Send a message
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Services
Bookkeeping for general contractors, specialty trades, and residential builders. Each service can stand on its own or run together as one monthly engagement.
Monthly bookkeeping
Every transaction coded to a job, bank and credit card accounts reconciled, and payables and receivables kept current.
What you get: A monthly close with a balance sheet, profit and loss, and a job cost report for each open job.
Progress billing and retainage
Pay applications built from your schedule of values, change orders tracked, and retainage receivable and payable kept separate.
What you get: Billings that tie to the contract and to the books.
WIP schedules
A work in progress schedule showing percent complete, overbillings, and underbillings for every open job.
What you get: The schedule your bonding agent and your banker ask for.
Payroll and subcontractors
Payroll processing with labor costed to jobs, W-9 and insurance certificate tracking for subs, and 1099s at year end.
What you get: Labor cost by job, and subcontractor files ready for your insurance audit.
Louisiana sales and use tax
State and parish sales and use tax returns, with use tax on out-of-state materials tracked as purchases are entered.
What you get: Returns prepared from the books, with support behind every line.
Cleanup and catch-up
Books brought current, accounts reconciled, and past costs recoded to jobs where the records allow.
What you get: A clean starting point and a written list of anything still open.
Year-end package
Closing entries, fixed asset and depreciation schedules, and a reconciled trial balance.
What you get: A tax-ready package for your CPA, with support for each balance.
How we start
Intro call
Talk through your jobs, your software, and where the books stand today.
Review
With read-only access to your books, Slader scopes any cleanup and sends a written quote before work starts.
Setup
Cost codes, bank feeds, and any catch-up work, so the books start clean.
Monthly close
Reconciled books, financial statements, and job reports every month.
Not sure which of these you need? Most contractors start with a short call.
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