Job-level profitability
A company-level profit and loss tells you the year was fine. It cannot tell you which service lines carried it and which ones were carried — and that is the difference between growing on purpose and growing by accident.
Built for all construction
Financial Systems Built for Construction Companies
Most contractors are excellent at the work and under-resourced everywhere else. We build the financial and operational backbone a growing construction company runs on — clean books, job-level numbers and a cash system that holds.
Where the margin actually goes
What we watch for construction companies
Work in progress and over/under billing
Without WIP, revenue recognition drifts from reality and a strong month on paper can mask a job that is billed ahead of the work. It also matters the moment a bank or a bonding agent asks.
Cash timing, not just profit
You pay for materials and payroll before you get paid. That gap widens as you grow, which is why profitable contractors still run out of cash. Profit First puts structure under it.
Change orders and scope creep
Work performed but never written up is the most common margin leak we find. A process for capturing it is worth more than most cost-cutting.
The differentiator
Job costing built at the budgeting phase
We set up your estimating and project-management software so the budget you build is the budget the job is measured against. Costing added afterwards is an accounting exercise; costing built in is an operating system.
How we build job costingCommon leaks
What we usually find in the first 90 days
- Change orders performed but never invoiced
- Labor burden excluded from bids
- Equipment and vehicle time not attributed to jobs
- Receivables aging with no follow-up rhythm
- Taxes funded out of next quarter’s cash
None of these are unusual. They are what happens when the work grows faster than the systems underneath it.
The comparison nobody runs
Why not just hire someone?
Most contractors assume the alternative to outsourcing is one bookkeeper. It rarely is — the work spans accounting, payroll, AP/AR, compliance and advisory, and one hire covers a slice of it.
Hiring in-house
- Recruit, train and manage a bookkeeper — roughly $60K a year before payroll taxes and benefits
- Add someone for AP, AR and admin — roughly another $45K
- Build the systems yourself: chart of accounts, job costing, approval flows
- Absorb PTO, sick days and turnover
- Lose the knowledge when they leave
- Still be the one who has to know whether it is being done right
With SarokaFi
- A full trained back-office team for a fraction of one salary
- Systems already built and proven on construction companies
- Accountability sits with us, not with you
- Move up or down a tier without hiring or firing anyone
- No PTO gaps, no turnover, no retraining
- A CFO-level partner reading the numbers, not just recording them
The question isn’t whether you can afford us. It’s whether one hire actually solves the problem.
Client results
What our clients say
Running Refined before we had Scott and his team on board to help us out was almost like running blind. We had just had our biggest year, and the little ball we roll was getting too big for me to keep everything in my head — things were starting to slip a bit.
Now we can say with confidence that we know where we stand financially at almost any given time. If we have questions, it’s not hard to get them answered within a day or two.
When you don’t know for sure where you’re at financially, you tend to make poor decisions for your business. It’s not hard at all for me to justify the money we spend with SarokaFi. It’s been a life saver.
I’m on my 4th year running my business. The first 2 years I did not have SarokaFi and was having serious cash flow and cash management problems.
The last 2 years Scott and his team have turned things around, and now I am starting to be profitable and cash flow is seamless. Very highly recommend.
Pricing
Part of every package from Foundations up
This sits in our Accounting Essentials category. We don’t price it à la carte — it’s bundled with the accounting, tax, and advisory support that make it actually work.
Let’s look at your numbers
Book a free consultation. We’ll look at how your costs are tracked today, tell you what we would expect to find, and be honest about whether we are the right fit.
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