Accounting Built for How Construction Firms Actually Grow
One company becomes two, a service division grows, someone starts stocking materials. SCPM Construction Accounting is built for that reality – native multi-entity with consolidation, Divisions, real inventory, and one-click WIP schedules.
By Ed Warmoth, Founder of Conquest Consultants
Construction firms don't stay simple.
One company becomes two when the owner sets up a holding entity. A service division grows alongside the general contracting work. Someone buys a warehouse and starts stocking materials. Before long, the accounting system that worked fine at the start is held together with journal-entry duct tape and a consolidation spreadsheet that only one person in the office fully understands.
SCPM Construction Accounting is built for that reality.
Multi-entity is native. Each company keeps its own complete, standalone set of books, with a unique GL. A derived, read-only combined layer then presents the consolidated statements the way a CPA would build them by hand - without anyone rekeying a single number.
Divisions let you slice one company's performance the way you actually run it. The service arm and the commercial arm each answer for their own numbers instead of everything disappearing into one big bucket. Your service arm does work for the new construction arm - no problem; SCPM Construction Accounting keeps it all straight.
Inventory is treated as real inventory. Warehouses, yards, and trucks become stock locations. Material is received, transferred, issued to a job or a service ticket, and valued on the books the way it should be.
Then there are the WIP schedules – the reports your surety and your bank actually look at. Live WIP is available any day of the week, pulled straight from posted transactions, so a project manager can check margin on a Tuesday without waiting for month-end. Definitive WIP at period close is frozen, reconciled to the general ledger to the penny, and bonding-grade. Both versions are a single click. Because the ledger is native - not an integration bolted onto some other package - the WIP numbers never quietly drift away from the books they're supposed to tie to.
Your accounting system shouldn't be the thing that slows the firm down when it's ready to grow into its next shape. Get the books that already fit the way construction companies actually operate.
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