Job costing & systems
Know Which Jobs Make Money — Before the Job Is Over
Most contractors find out a job lost money once it is finished, if they find out at all. We build the financial and operational backbone underneath your business so profitability is something you can see while there is still time to act on it.
The problem
A profitable year can hide a losing service line
When labor, materials and subs all land in general expense accounts, your profit and loss says the company made money. It cannot tell you which jobs made it — or which ones were quietly carried by the others.
That is how work bid accurately two years ago, never repriced, and eaten by material and labor increases keeps filling your calendar long after it stopped being profitable.
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Set up the software
We configure your estimating and project-management software so the budget you build is the budget the job actually gets measured against.
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Structure the accounts
A chart of accounts built for construction, so costs land on jobs instead of disappearing into general expense buckets.
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Code costs as they happen
Labor with burden, materials at purchase, subs and equipment — attributed to the job at the moment they occur, not reconstructed at month end.
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Report estimate versus actual
Every job compared against what you bid, so the next estimate is sharper than the last one.
Built in the budgeting phase, not bolted on
Job costing added after the fact is an accounting exercise. Job costing built into how you budget and estimate is an operating system — the numbers arrive as the work happens, so they are still useful while the job is live.
This is the part most contractors have never had set up, and it is the part that changes how the next bid gets written.
Estimate versus actual, job by job
The single most useful report a contracting business can produce is the gap between what you bid and what it cost. Run it every month and your estimating gets sharper on its own — no consultant required, just an honest comparison you could not make before.
What it changes
What you get out of it
- Know which service lines actually carry the business
- Catch a mispriced job in month one, not after forty of them
- Bid with labor burden included, not guessed at
- See the customer whose change orders never get written up
- Walk into a bank or a sale with books that hold up
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 Growth 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.
Want to know which jobs are actually paying?
Book a free consultation. We’ll look at how your costs are tracked today and tell you honestly what it would take to see profitability job by job.
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