File № CB-2026/Q2 · For Builders & Trades · Accounting · Analysis · Advisory

You built the business.
We'll show you what's building wealth
— and what's bleeding it.

Specialist accounting & business intelligence for contractors. You're busy running jobs — we give you back a clear, real-time picture of where your margin is being made and where there's room to make more of it.

1IN 3
Contractors Don't Track Job-Level Margin
68%
Of Trade SMBs Cite Cash Flow As Top Risk
8–12%
Avg. Margin Recovered With Proper Job Costing
54DAYS
Avg. Construction Receivables Cycle
01 / WHAT WE CLEAR UP The fog of a busy year

You've built real revenue.
Let's give it real clarity.

When you're running crews, bidding work and putting out fires, the financial picture gets foggy fast — not because you're missing anything, but because nobody has the time to put it all in one place. That's our job.

P/01Job Mix Clarity

See which job types are quietly carrying the business.

You're winning the work — we lay it out by sector, client and crew so you can see which jobs are doing the heavy lifting on margin. Same revenue, much sharper view of what to sell more of.

UPSIDE Bid the work that pays best
P/02Cash Flow, On Time

Get your cash off other people's balance sheets.

Receivables sit at 45, 60, 90 days while you front payroll and materials. We put a system around follow-up and terms so the cash you've already earned arrives when it's supposed to — without you on the phone.

UPSIDE Days sales outstanding, down
P/03True Cost, Per Job

Bid with the full picture loaded in.

Yard, insurance, admin, vehicles, equipment idle time — we allocate it honestly to the jobs that incur it. The result is job costing you can stand behind and bids that protect the margin you intended.

UPSIDE Win with margin intact
P/04Tax, Planned Forward

Walk into tax season knowing the number.

Provisional tax, payroll obligations, equipment depreciation — all forecast and set aside as you go. By March, the bill is already funded and nothing in your cash flow gets surprised.

UPSIDE No end-of-year scramble
02 / WHAT WE DO Four pillars

Books that report.
Numbers that decide.

We're not a shopfront bookkeeper. We're the finance department your business is too small to hire and too profitable to do without.

S/01

Contractor Accounting

Books, tax, payroll and compliance handled end to end — by people who understand retentions, progress claims, WIP, and the specific tax treatment of construction.

Bookkeeping · GST · Payroll · Tax →
S/02

Job Profitability Analysis

Margin breakdown by sector, client type, crew and job. Know which work to chase, which to walk away from, and where to renegotiate.

Sector · Client · Crew · Job →
S/03

Capital Efficiency Review

We trace where your capital is sitting idle — equipment downtime, dead stock, slow receivables, overhead bloat — and reclaim it as working cash.

Equipment ROI · Working Capital →
S/04

Business Strategy & Reporting

Monthly dashboards, quarterly strategy sessions and the KPIs that actually drive decisions — not vanity metrics, not last year's spreadsheet.

Dashboards · KPIs · Quarterly Reviews →
03 / HOW IT WORKS Three steps. No theatre.

From spreadsheet to strategy.

Onboarding takes about three weeks. Most clients have a working dashboard and a first benchmark by week four.

01

Connect Your Data

We plug into Xero, MYOB, QuickBooks, your job management software and any custom spreadsheets — without disrupting the people using them daily.

Week 01 · Setup & Audit
02

We Analyze & Benchmark

Margin by job type, true overhead allocation, cash conversion cycle, equipment ROI — benchmarked against 200+ contractor businesses in the same trade.

Week 02–03 · Deep Dive
03

You Get a Clear Action Plan

A monthly report you'll actually read. Three to five specific moves per quarter, scored by impact. A standing call to work through them with you.

Week 04+ · Ongoing Advisory
04 / WHAT YOU'LL SEE A glimpse of the dashboard

The view that changes how you bid.

This is a redacted snapshot from a $4.2M contractor. Same crew, same overhead, four different sectors. The margins are not equal.

Report · Job Profitability

Sample Profitability Breakdown — Anonymised Client Data

CB-DASH/JP-Q1-26
Trailing 12 mo. · Gross Margin %

Insight: Industrial Maintenance outperformed Commercial Fit-Out by 22 margin points. Bidding strategy was rebalanced toward maintenance contracts the following quarter.

05 / INDUSTRY DATA By the numbers

What professional bookkeeping actually returns.

Industry research on what contractors gain when they replace guesswork with structured financial systems.

23%
Higher Profit Margins
Contractors using professional bookkeeping average 23% higher margins than those on DIY accounting — driven by accurate job costing and error prevention.
Return on Investment
Most small businesses report an ROI exceeding 3 times the service cost within the first year of working with a professional bookkeeper.
200%
First-Year ROI
Structured financial measurement shows standard small businesses see 150%–200% ROI immediately, with savings scaling further as the company grows.
$50K
Annual Overhead Savings
Outsourcing to a professional team cuts accounting overhead by 50%–60%, eliminating in-house hiring, training, and software costs — up to $50,000 per year.
15%
Annual Revenue Growth
Small businesses using professional accounting and bookkeeping see annual revenue growth climb 11.5%–15% due to stronger scaling capacity and clearer financial decisions.
06 / GET STARTED Book a free 45-minute review

Stop guessing.
Start building with your numbers.

We'll look at your last 12 months, flag the three biggest profit leaks we can see from the outside, and tell you whether we're the right fit. No pitch deck.

Office
2991 Grace Ln Suite 2C · Mon–Fri 8–6
Phone
(424) 458 8533