TradesTrade 03 of 08
Construction financial management for Concrete Contractors.
Concrete runs on thin margins and heavy volume, so a small costing error repeats across every yard poured. We find it before it compounds.
In short
How does construction financial management work for concrete contractors?
We set up job costing that tracks the cost of each pour and each job. A mispriced pour then shows up while you still have a quarter to save it. WIP schedules flag a job going underwater, and cash-flow forecasting keeps a month that looks profitable on paper from leaving you short at the bank.
ProofAdded at close
“Selling the business, our books were a mess. They cleaned up three years in eight weeks.”
Plumbing contractor, Houston TX
+$350,000
What we do5 line items
On this trade
Cement and aggregate prices move, weather delays blow up schedules, and margins are tight enough that a few mispriced pours erase a quarter. Volume hides the problem until the bank balance stops matching the workload.
We set up job costing that tracks the cost of each pour and each job. A mispriced pour then shows up while you still have a quarter to save it. WIP schedules flag a job going underwater, and cash-flow forecasting keeps a month that looks profitable on paper from leaving you short at the bank.
- Cost tracking per pour and per job
- WIP schedules on active work
- Material-cost and escalation tracking
- Cash-flow forecasting for payroll weeks
- Overbilling analysis
Questions3 answered
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Concrete margins are thin. How does a CFO help?
Thin margins are exactly why job-level costing matters most. You have little room for error. You must know which pours and which jobs made money. That knowledge separates a good year from a break-even year.
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Can you handle material price escalation?
Yes. We track material and escalation against your bids so you can see when rising cement or aggregate cost is quietly eating a job’s margin, and price the next bid accordingly.
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What size concrete contractor do you work with?
We work with contractors between $2M and $15M in revenue. At that size the work is too big for simple day-to-day bookkeeping. It is also too small to pay a full-time CFO.
NextAustin, Texas
Which job loses money right now?
On thin concrete margins, three mispriced jobs can wipe out the profit from thirty good ones before you notice.