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Multifamily Developer Accounting: How to Structure Entity Books, Intercompany & Investor Reporting (2026)
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com If you develop multifamily, you already know your books aren't simple. You don't run one company — you run a holding entity over a stack of single-purpose project LLCs, each with its own loan, its own equity partners, and its own set of books. Money moves between those entities constantly. And your investors expect report
Jul 88 min read
Construction WIP Reports 2026: The Owner's Guide to the Report Your Surety, Bonding Agent, and CPA Want to See
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com If you've ever applied for a construction bond, opened a line of credit with a construction lender, or filed taxes with a CPA who actually understands construction, you already know that all three want the same document: your construction WIP report. WIP — work in progress — is the single report that tells outside parties
Jun 1714 min read
Construction Job Costing Reports 2026: How to Read the 4 Reports That Tell You Which Jobs Are Actually Making Money
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Here's the brutal reality of running a construction business: most contractors think they know which jobs made money. Most contractors are wrong. The job that felt great on the punch list — finished on time, happy customer, paid on time — often turns out to have lost margin once the final supplier invoices came in. The jo
Jun 1614 min read
Construction Bookkeeping Cleanup 2026: The Owner's 10-Point Self-Diagnostic to Know If Your Books Are Actually Right
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com If you've been reading our 2026 construction bookkeeping series — Cost Codes (Blog #1) → [link to: /post/construction-cost-codes-2026-guide], Job Costing Reports (Blog #2) → [link to: /post/construction-job-costing-reports-2026-guide], and WIP Reports (Blog #3) → [link to: /post/construction-wip-reports-2026-guide] — th
Jun 1412 min read
Houston Construction Bookkeeping in 2026: What the City's Data Center, Healthcare, and Energy Project Boom Means for Your Books
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Houston is the #1 metro in the United States for construction job growth right now. Between February 2025 and February 2026, the Houston area added 11,200 construction jobs — the most of any US metro per the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Total construction starts in the region are forecast to grow 6% in 2026 after a 3% decl
Jun 1213 min read
Construction Working Capital in 2026: Benchmarks, Cash Reserve Targets, and the Numbers Every Contractor Needs to Hit
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Your P&L says you made $200,000 last year. Your bank account says you cannot cover Friday's payroll. Both are telling the truth — and that is exactly the problem with working capital construction. In 2026, the gap between project profitability and cash availability is wider than it has been in years. Higher financing cost
Jun 712 min read
Procore and QuickBooks Integration: The Complete ERP Sync Guide for Construction Firms
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 482-2790 | constructioncostaccounting.com The Procore QuickBooks integration is what turns two separate systems — a project management platform and an accounting platform — into a single connected financial workflow. Done right, it eliminates the double entry that plagues most construction firms: budgets, commitments, and change orders are built once in Procore and flow automatically into QuickBooks,
Jun 210 min read
How to Set Up a Project in Procore: The Complete Step-by-Step Implementation Guide
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 482-2790 | constructioncostaccounting.com A successful Procore project setup is one of the highest-leverage hours you will spend on any construction job. Because Procore's tools are deeply interconnected, the quality of your initial setup determines how well every downstream tool — punch lists, RFIs, submittals, change orders — functions for the entire life of the project. Get the foundation right, a
Jun 19 min read
Procore Invoicing: The Complete Subcontractor Billing and Payment Workflow Guide
By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 482-2790 | constructioncostaccounting.com The Procore invoicing process is one of the most-used workflows in the platform — and for good reason. It connects subcontractors and project managers around the most consequential moment of any construction project: who gets paid, how much, and when. Done correctly, the system eliminates email chains, prevents lost payment applications, creates a complete au
May 2810 min read
How to Set Up the JobTread QuickBooks Integration: The Complete Configuration Guide for Construction Firms
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
May 1512 min read
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