By Tammy Hoang, QuickBooks ProAdvisor — Construction Bookkeeping Specialist | Construction Cost Accounting (949) 889-3283 | constructioncostaccounting.com Most contractors lose money on jobs they thought were profitable. The root cause is rarely material price spikes, labor overruns, or scope creep alone — it's that the firm's construction cost codes don't tell them the truth about where the money is going. Without a properly structured cost code list, every job's actual pr