Finish and remodel carpentry
Deposit, progress and final billing; lumber-yard and millwork accounts split by job; change orders tracked against the signed estimate so scope creep shows as a number.
Trades. One cost-code tree for each.
Why a desk just for the trades
Generic books can’t see the job. Ours start there.
Contractor books fail in a predictable place. A bank feed shows “Home Depot $412.18” and a bookkeeper who has never held a stud finder files it under Supplies. Nobody learns that the Roslyn bath ran 11% over on tile until the job is closed and the check has cleared.
Dovetail Ledger was set up the other way around. The job is the unit. Materials, labor, subs, permits and equipment each get a cost code, and every transaction is seated into a job before it is allowed into a monthly report. A dovetail holds because the tail and pin leave no gap; the books should hold for the same reason.
If a transaction can’t be tied to a job, it goes in the exception log, in writing, and not into a plug figure.
We work out of 30 North Bayles Avenue in Port Washington. Cleanups happen at our table or on your tailgate; monthly books and payroll run by secure upload and phone for clients anywhere in New York State.
