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Bookkeeping for Concrete and Excavation Contractors
Concrete and excavation are equipment businesses that happen to pour and dig. The excavator, the skid steer, the dump truck and the trailer are the balance sheet, the loan payments are the cash flow, and an idle machine is the cost nobody puts on a job.
Equipment: loans, depreciation and internal rates
Each machine has a loan whose principal must reduce the liability rather than vanish into expense, a place on the fixed-asset list for your tax preparer’s depreciation, and a real cost per hour of fuel, maintenance and ownership. The firm sets an internal rate per machine and charges it to jobs by hours or days, so a job that tied up the excavator for two weeks shows that cost and the bid can be checked against it.
Fuel, hauling and disposal
Fuel is a large and volatile line; hauling and disposal are pass-through costs that should be billed back. Both are posted to jobs when the ticket says which, and the books show whether the per-load or per-yard price in the bid covered them.
Per-yard and per-load pricing against actuals
Concrete bid by the yard and excavation by the load or the hour each have an assumed cost. The job cost report compares the assumption with the actual yards placed, loads hauled and hours run, by job, which is how the unit prices in the estimate get corrected over a season.
Operators, overtime and site work across state lines
Operators are paid by the hour with overtime through the season, and site-work crews travel. Payroll is run in every state where the work happens, with labour posted to the job at the burdened rate, including the workers’ comp component that is substantial in this trade.
Send the machine list and how many jobs run at once. The reply quotes a setup with equipment charged to jobs from day one.
Concrete & Excavation: common questions
Can the books charge equipment to jobs?
Yes, at an internal hourly or daily rate per machine, from the hours your operators record.
Equipment financing and leases?
Tracked per machine, with principal reducing the liability and interest expensed, and the fixed-asset list kept current.
Ready-mix supplier accounts?
Reconciled monthly, with each ticket posted to the job it was poured on.
What your bookkeeper handles
- Construction Bookkeeping Services
- Contractor Bookkeeping for Trades and Service Companies
- Construction Payroll Services
- Job Costing and WIP Reports for Contractors
- Construction Bookkeeping Cleanup and Catch-Up
Also written for General Contractors, Plumbers, HVAC Companies, Electrical Contractors, Landscapers, Roofers, Painters, Remodelers, Pool Builders and Handyman Businesses.
Request a quote for your concrete or excavation company
Tell us about the company and the state of the books. Your bookkeeper replies within one business day with a plain answer: what it would take, and what it would cost. Requests answered within one business day · Calls Mon–Fri, 9am–5pm Eastern Or call (888) 720-4009 if you would rather talk it through first.