North Charleston Bookkeeper · Commercial & Industrial
Industrial parks, port terminals, base contracts and warehouse build-outs. If you sub to general contractors and wait sixty days to get paid, your books need to work differently.
A different kind of trade town
North Charleston is not a residential service market wearing a different name. It is South Carolina’s industrial engine — aerospace manufacturing, the port terminals, a joint military installation, the airport, and the warehouse and logistics corridor feeding all of it.
For a trade contractor that changes almost everything about the accounting. Your customer is usually another business, often a general contractor, not a homeowner writing a check at the end of the day. You invoice on a schedule someone else controls. You wait. A slice of every invoice is held back until the whole project closes out.
Books designed for residential service work fall apart under that. They show you a receivables balance without telling you how much of it is retainage you cannot collect yet, or which general contractor is quietly forty days past their own stated terms.
The commercial pattern
Bonding and lending
Commercial work eventually asks you to prove yourself on paper. A surety wants financial statements before it writes a bond. A bank wants them before it extends a line of credit to cover your net-60 gap. A general contractor may want them before adding you to an approved-subcontractor list.
None of those readers are gentle. They look for work-in-progress that reconciles, revenue recognition that is consistent, and a balance sheet where equity, retainage, and deposits actually make sense. A file full of uncategorized transactions and an Opening Balance Equity account nobody ever cleared will cost you the bond, not just the conversation.
We keep your QuickBooks Online file in a state where handing it over is a non-event. Reconciled every month. Closing date locked once the period is done. Every entry backed by a source document.
What’s included
Categorization, reconciliation, and a close report every month — with a real person reviewing it before it reaches you.
Held-back amounts tracked separately from ordinary receivables, so you always know what is owed versus what is merely earned.
Revenue recognized as work is completed, matched to your schedule of values, not to whenever an invoice happened to go out.
Labor, materials, equipment and subs tagged per job, so you can tell a profitable general contractor from a busy one.
Subs tracked all year and documentation collected up front, so January is a filing task and not an emergency.
Behind on the books before a bonding or lending deadline? We fix the file and get it defensible.
Who we work with
Our North Charleston work concentrates in the trades that serve business customers rather than households:
What they have in common is not the trade. It is that they invoice businesses, wait to be paid, and need books that survive being read by a surety, a lender, or a general contractor’s accounts payable department.
Where we work
We work inside your own QuickBooks Online file, remotely. These are the areas North Charleston contractors most often run work in:
Pricing
No setup fee. No contract. Cancel any time. Start with a free books review.
Send us the QuickBooks file. We’ll show you what your retainage and receivables actually look like — free, no call required.
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