Bookkeeping for Construction & Trades in Nashville, TN
General contractors and trade businesses across Davidson and Rutherford counties share a specific problem: the P&L looks great until the job-cost report disagrees with it. Progress billings, retainage, and under-billings hide margin problems a standard chart of accounts will never surface. We build job-level books first, then close monthly by the tenth.
Local specifics on this page
Job costing and WIP schedules that tie to the general ledger, not a side spreadsheet
Retainage receivable tracked separately so “profit” is not sitting in someone else’s escrow
TN contractor licensing thresholds and the monthly sales tax treatment of materials
Davidson and Rutherford County tangible personal property schedules for owned equipment
Published by Compass East — one real Nashville office, working across Middle Tennessee. No satellite addresses, no call centers.
WIP monthly
Over/under-billing schedule in every close package
Mar 1
County personal property schedule for equipment-heavy fleets
Job-level P&L
Margin by project, not just by month
Elsewhere in Middle Tennessee