Gross profit by job, closed monthly, in the system you already run.
Coding every dollar as it comes in, so the report exists at month end without anyone rebuilding it.
Four things quietly break job costing.
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Deposits booked as revenue
Money lands up front, gets coded to income, and the P&L shows profit on a job nobody has started. In December that is tax on money you have not earned.
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Material receipts that never reach a job
One supply house invoice covers four jobs and nobody splits it. Every job on that ticket looks better than it was.
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Labor without burden
Wages get costed, while taxes, comp, and insurance stay in overhead. On a labor-heavy job that hides twenty to thirty-five percent of the cost.
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Sub invoices two months late
The job closes in March, the sub bills in May. March looks great, May looks terrible, and neither number is real.
The setup happens once. The discipline is monthly.
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Rebuild the chart of accounts
Direct cost split from overhead, then into material, labor, sub, equipment, and other. Five types the field will use.
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Set up jobs and cost codes
Coded the way you estimate. If the estimate has demo, framing, and finish, the books need the same three.
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Allocate payroll with burden
Time mapped to jobs, then loaded with taxes, comp, and insurance, so an hour costs what it really costs.
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Code AP at intake
Supply invoices split across jobs on arrival. Sub bills accrued into the month the work happened.
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Deposits to a liability
Customer money sits as a liability until work earns it. A WIP schedule handles jobs crossing a year end.
What lands in your inbox every month.
Every job with revenue, cost by type, and margin. Sorted worst to best, because that is the list worth reading.
What you bid, what it cost, and where the gap opened. Usually labor hours, sometimes an unbilled change order.
P&L and balance sheet, margin trend, overhead as a percent of revenue, and your break-even volume.
See what it would cost you.
Thirty minutes, a real price in writing, an honest answer on fit. Or send last year's return and I will review it free.