By Tammy Hoang, CFMA | QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 482-2790 | constructioncostaccounting.com Getting JobTread QuickBooks integration running correctly is not complicated — but getting it wrong is expensive. The wrong mapping structure creates duplicate customers. A premature sync pushes data before your chart of accounts is ready. An existing QBO job left unlinked generates a second record for the same project. Any of these errors mean reconci

By Tammy Hoang, CFMA | QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 482-2790 | constructioncostaccounting.com If you run a construction business on JobTread, you already know the software can do a lot. But knowing what it can do and getting your team to actually use it the right way are two very different problems. The to-do tool is one of the most underused features in JobTread — and one of the highest-leverage. Done right, task management in JobTread elimina

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting | calendly.com/tammycca/30min Every construction owner I work with has a CPA. What most of them do not have is a construction bookkeeper who makes that CPA relationship actually work. Here is what I mean. Your construction CPA is a tax professional. Their job is to prepare your tax returns, minimize your tax liability, advise on entity structure, and represent you if the IRS ever comes knocking. They are ess

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting | calendly.com/tammycca/30min Every month, construction business owners receive a set of financial statements from their bookkeeper or accountant. Most of them look at two numbers — revenue and net income — and move on. The rest of the report sits unread. This is one of the most expensive habits in construction accounting, because the numbers that actually tell you whether your business is healthy are not th

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting | calendly.com/tammycca/30min Ask most construction owners about their creditors, and you will get a general answer — the subs, the suppliers, the equipment rental company. Ask them which creditors are past due right now, by how many days, and on which specific jobs, and the answer gets a lot less clear. This is one of the most common and most expensive gaps in construction bookkeeping. Creditors are the bus

By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting | calendly.com/tammycca/30min Most construction contractors know what a loss looks like when it shows up at year-end — a job that ran over budget, margins that disappeared, a number their CPA presents in April that nobody saw coming. What most contractors do not know is that under GAAP, that loss should have been on the books the moment it became evident — not months later when the damage was done. This is t

By Tammy Hoang, CFMA, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting You found a bookkeeper who says they know Procore. They probably don't — not at the level your jobs require. Procore is not accounting software. It is a project management platform that connects to your accounting system. A bookkeeper who has clicked around in Procore's dashboard is not the same as one who has configured the ERP integration, mapped your cost codes, managed the accounting approver workf

By Tammy Hoang, CFMA, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting If your crews are managing jobs in Procore and your books are in Sage 100 Contractor or QuickBooks, you are probably entering the same data twice. Change orders go into Procore for the project manager and into Sage for the bookkeeper. Subcontractor invoices get processed in the field and re-entered in the office. Job costs sit in Sage until the monthly close — which means your project manager is making

A $12,000 drywall repair nobody budgeted for. A plumbing sub who left debris across three floors, costing your crew an entire day of cleanup. These situations happen on nearly every commercial project and the contractors who recover those costs are the ones who document them properly from the start. Back charges are among the most contested line items on any pay application. After years of working with construction owners and GCs across the country, we've seen a clear pattern

The global construction sector is projected to reach $15.2 trillion in output by 2030 , but the path there is anything but smooth. Rising interest rates, persistent labor shortages, and volatile material costs have fundamentally reshaped how firms plan, bid, and build. At the same time, massive public infrastructure programs and a data center boom are creating pockets of extraordinary demand. Understanding where the industry is heading is no longer optional. For construction

One framing contractor I worked with discovered $47,000 in unbilled change orders sitting in a project management tool that never made it to QuickBooks. In 2026, this "app isolation" is the silent profit killer for construction SMEs. When your field and office systems don't sync, you are making critical decisions based on stale data. Integration is no longer a luxury—it is a survival skill for firms that want accurate financials without doubling their admin headcount. This g

Most construction business owners are good at building. The job site is where you make your money. The problem is that for far too many contractors, the financial side of the business — the construction bookkeeping for contractors that should be running quietly in the background — is either wrong, months behind, or handled by someone who has never seen a WIP report in their life. According to industry data, nearly 60 percent of construction companies that fail do so not becau

If your construction company works on government-funded projects, you have almost certainly come across the term certified payroll. But what exactly does it mean, who is required to submit it, and what happens if you get it wrong? At Construction Cost Accounting, we help contractors across Southern California navigate certified payroll compliance so they can focus on building, not paperwork. Table of Content: What is Certified Payroll? Who Needs to Submit Certified Payroll? W

If your construction company uses QuickBooks Desktop and you work with a remote bookkeeper or accountant, you have probably run into one of the biggest limitations of the software: QuickBooks Desktop is designed for a single user on a single computer. When your bookkeeper is not in your office, sharing the file becomes complicated. Qbox solves this problem. It is one of the most practical tools available for construction companies that want to keep QuickBooks Desktop but need