Clean, current books for Atlanta contractors, closed every single month
For most Atlanta builders the problem isn't the work, it's what happens to the paperwork after. Receipts live in the truck, subcontractor bills pile up unentered, the QuickBooks file drifts further out of shape, and month-end turns into a weekend of guessing which job a charge belonged to. When the metro is this busy, with studio buildouts, tenant work, and residential jobs all running at once, a few weeks behind quietly becomes a few months, and by tax time nobody trusts the numbers. A general bookkeeper codes construction like any other business and misses it entirely. We do one thing: keep the books clean and current for Atlanta contractors. Every transaction coded to the right job, AP and AR managed, subcontractor payments and retainage recorded, QuickBooks kept in shape, and a real monthly close delivered on a fixed date. We work with general contractors, concrete and site crews, mechanical trades, remodelers, and specialty subs across Metro Atlanta.
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Atlanta construction bookkeeping
Bookkeeping for a construction company in Atlanta is nothing like bookkeeping for a shop or an office. Between multi-draw studio and commercial billing, retainage held for months, subcontractor payments across dozens of vendors, and payroll that has to land on the right job, a general bookkeeper simply codes it wrong. Clean books are the foundation everything else stands on.
They didn’t just record transactions and call it a day. They built a custom chart of accounts around how a remodeling company actually runs, did a full catch-up on years of bookkeeping inside QuickBooks Online, and now stay on top of my monthly bookkeeping and payroll. Every step, they broke it down in simple terms instead of burying me in accountant talk.
FinTruction rebuilt the whole thing from the ground up, with real job costing, work in progress, and retainage. They didn’t just hand me reports and disappear; they walked me through my numbers until I understood them.
Sahil and his team handle the bookkeeping and job costing for my painting business. They cleaned up my books and set up integrations that give me accurate, timely job costing with solid weekly data. Reliable, detailed, and genuinely invested in getting the numbers right.
FinTruction is the only bookkeeping team we’ve found that truly understands construction accounting and WIP reporting. They aligned our income and costs across 21 jobs and gave us full, monthly transparency. Fast, accurate, and an indispensable partner.
When I came to FinTruction I had no financial structure. No job costing, no WIP tracking, books behind. They did a full cleanup and rebuilt job costing and WIP tracking in QuickBooks. Now I know what’s billed, what’s owed, and where every job stands.
A couple of minutes from a contractor we support, sharing what working with FinTruction has been like and what changed once their numbers finally made sense.
A general bookkeeper can record transactions. Construction accounting is a different job.
| What you need | Generic local bookkeeper | FinTruction |
|---|---|---|
| Job-level costing | Lumps all jobs into one P&L | Cost codes and margin per project |
| WIP & revenue recognition | Cash-basis, no WIP schedule | Monthly WIP with over/underbilling |
| Retainage tracking | Buried in AR/AP, often missed | Tracked receivable & payable by contract |
| Bonding & lender packages | Not equipped to produce them | Bonding-ready statements and backlog |
| Construction software | QuickBooks set up like a retail shop | QuickBooks + integrations tuned for contractors |
Our construction bookkeeping supports contractors and specialty trades across Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties. Whether you run a five-person crew or manage studio and commercial buildouts, we keep your books clean and job-level accurate.
Are You a Contractor in Atlanta?
Get Clean Books and Financial ClarityAccurate books start with putting every dollar against the right job, cost code, and account the day it happens. We handle daily entry so your QuickBooks is always current and you can see where each Atlanta job actually stands instead of finding out at month-end.
If your file is a mess or you are months behind, we fix it. Many Metro Atlanta contractors come to us with miscoded expenses, undeposited funds sitting for months, and no real job costing. We rebuild the file for construction and bring every account current so you can trust the numbers again.
Atlanta contractors run dozens of subcontractor and supplier relationships across every project. We keep AP organized, code each bill to the right job, and stay ahead of payment schedules so you protect vendor relationships, avoid late fees, and reach year-end with clean 1099 records.
Getting paid keeps the doors open, and on Atlanta studio, airport, and commercial work that means multi-draw billing with retainage held for months. We record every progress draw and AIA pay application accurately, track retainage receivable by project, and follow the aging so nothing slips.
Labor is the biggest line for most Atlanta builders, and it only tells the truth if it is coded to the right job. We record payroll, allocate labor to projects and cost codes, and keep the documentation federal airport and transit work demands under Davis-Bacon.
Every month you get a clean, construction-formatted statement package on a fixed date, reconciled and ready for your CPA, bank, or surety. No more waiting weeks to find out how the business did.
Every construction platform claims to have a "QuickBooks integration." Most break the moment your books need to be accurate. Sales tax mismaps, retainage disappears, change orders create duplicates, and job costing reports stop matching project reality. We fix the integration so your software, your books, and your job‑level numbers all tell the same story.
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Atlanta runs one of the busiest construction markets in the country, and that pace is exactly what buries a contractor's books. Studio and entertainment buildouts around Trilith and Pinewood, continuous work at Hartsfield-Jackson, BeltLine corridor development, and a steady stream of Midtown towers and suburban residential jobs mean most builders are running several active projects at once.
Every one of those jobs generates a stream of transactions: subcontractor bills, material runs, equipment rentals, progress draws, retainage held and released, and payroll that has to be split across projects. Multiply that by a full slate of active work and the bookkeeping backlog grows faster than any owner can keep up with between site visits.
When the books fall behind, the damage is quiet but real. Cash flow decisions get made on stale numbers, miscoded costs hide which jobs are actually losing money, 1099 season becomes a scramble, and the year-end handoff to a CPA turns into an expensive cleanup. The work was profitable; the record-keeping is what put the company at risk.
FinTruction keeps Atlanta contractors out of that hole. We match the pace of the market with a disciplined monthly process so your books stay clean, current, and coded to the job, and you always know where the money went.
Georgia 1099 and Subcontractor Records: Georgia contractors who pay a subcontractor $600 or more in a year must issue a 1099-NEC. Our process tracks every subcontractor payment by vendor and job all year and collects W-9s up front, so year-end 1099 filing is accurate rather than a last-minute reconstruction.
City of Atlanta MFBE Reporting: Many City of Atlanta projects carry Minority and Female Business Enterprise participation goals. We tag subcontractor payments by certification status in the books so the compliance reports you submit match your actual accounting records to the dollar.
Certified Payroll on Federal Projects: Airport, transit, and other federally funded Metro Atlanta work falls under the Davis-Bacon Act, which requires prevailing wages and certified payroll reporting. Our bookkeeping keeps wage rates, hours by project, and fringe payments recorded so certified payroll can be produced without scrambling.
Georgia Sales and Use Tax on Materials: Sales and use tax applies to construction materials across Fulton and the surrounding counties, with rates that vary locally and exemptions on qualifying government projects. We separate taxable purchases from labor and subcontractor costs in your records so tax time is straightforward.
Georgia Mechanic's Lien Documentation: Georgia's lien law carries strict notice and filing deadlines, and lien rights depend on clean records of contract amounts, billings, and payments received by project. Our bookkeeping maintains that project-level payment history so the documentation is there if a dispute arises.
We work only with construction companies, so we code your books the way contractors actually operate, not the way a general bookkeeper guesses.
FinTruction runs your construction bookkeeping in Atlanta on the software you already use. We connect your accounting platform, field and project management tools, and payroll so transactions flow into clean books without double entry.
We set up and maintain QuickBooks Online and Desktop specifically for Atlanta contractors, so job costing, retainage, and progress invoicing are handled correctly from the first entry rather than bolted on later.
Need QuickBooks Cleaned Up for Construction?
We connect the tools your Atlanta crews use in the field to your books so draws, costs, and payments flow through without manual re-entry.
Every month, without exception. Atlanta contractors juggling studio buildouts, tenant improvements, and multiple residential jobs generate too many transactions to reconcile once a quarter. We run a clean monthly close: bank and card reconciliations, job-cost coding checked, AP and AR brought current, and a financial statement package delivered by a fixed date each month so you never guess where a job stands.
Yes, QuickBooks cleanup is one of the most common ways Metro Atlanta contractors start with us. We rebuild the chart of accounts for construction, fix miscoded expenses and undeposited funds, set up job costing classes and items, correct retainage entries, and reconcile back through the year. Once it is clean we keep it clean with a disciplined monthly process.
Yes. We record every subcontractor payment against the right job and vendor throughout the year, collect W-9s, and flag anyone paid $600 or more so 1099-NEC filing is accurate and on time. For City of Atlanta projects with Minority and Female Business Enterprise participation goals, we also tag payments by certification status so your compliance reporting lines up with your books.
Yes. Phased work like sound-stage buildouts around Trilith and Pinewood, or public projects along the Atlanta BeltLine, involves multi-draw billing and heavy retainage. On the bookkeeping side that means coding each progress draw to the right phase, recording retainage receivable as it is withheld, and tracking release schedules so nothing gets lost between draws. We keep those entries accurate so your accountant and bonding company see the real numbers.
Catch-up bookkeeping is a core service. We reconcile from the last clean month forward, recategorize transactions to the correct jobs and cost codes, sort out subcontractor and material payments, and hand your CPA a clean set of books. Most Atlanta contractors who are three to nine months behind are caught up within two to four weeks with no disruption to the field.
We work with contractors across Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Cherokee counties, including the City of Atlanta, Marietta, Roswell, Alpharetta, Sandy Springs, Decatur, and Kennesaw. Our bookkeeping is fully remote, so we support builders anywhere in Metro Atlanta without needing to visit your office.
It depends on transaction volume, number of active jobs, payroll complexity, and whether you need catch-up work first. Most Atlanta contractors find outsourced construction bookkeeping costs less than a full-time in-house bookkeeper while adding construction expertise they would not otherwise get. We give you a fixed monthly quote after a free consultation.
Bookkeeping is the day-to-day work: coding transactions to jobs, reconciling accounts, managing AP and AR, and producing monthly statements. Accounting builds on those books with WIP reporting, revenue recognition, tax planning, and CFO-level analysis. Many Atlanta contractors start with bookkeeping to get clean, current records, then add construction accounting in Atlanta as they grow. We provide both.
FinTruction provides construction bookkeeping and accounting across major cities in Georgia. Select your city to learn more about our contractor bookkeeping and job costing services in your area.
Beyond day-to-day books, we also run job costing, WIP reporting, tax planning, and CFO support for Atlanta contractors.
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