Fort Worth books, job by job.

Every step of it. The work happens in your QuickBooks file against statements you send securely. For a Fort Worth contractor or supplier, the rebuilt months carry job costs back to the right jobs, set equipment purchases up as fixed assets rather than expenses, and hold collected tax at a combined rate that includes Trinity Metro's 0.5% transit tax, so retainage and job margins read correctly for every recovered month.

Retainage — the percentage a general contractor or owner withholds from each pay application until a job is accepted — has to sit in its own receivable account, separate from revenue you've already collected in cash, so your books don't overstate what's actually in the bank. We track retainage by job and reconcile it out only when it's actually released, not when the job wraps, so it doesn't quietly inflate what looks collectible.

Work-in-progress is the value of a job that's underway but not yet billed or completed — the labor, materials, and overhead already spent on it. Without a WIP schedule, a half-finished job with costs already incurred can either look like pure profit, if you've been paid ahead of the work, or a loss, if you're behind on billing, when neither is true. We build a WIP schedule into the monthly close so job profitability reads accurately while the job is still open, not just after it closes.

Equipment and vehicles get set up as fixed assets with their own depreciation schedules, not expensed all at once or lumped into a general equipment account. That keeps your balance sheet accurate, your depreciation expense correct for your CPA at tax time, and gives you a real per-asset cost to weigh against what it earns — whether it's a crew truck, a piece of heavy equipment, or a tooling asset on an aerospace supplier's floor.

Yes. Purchase-order-driven revenue needs to be recognized against the PO and the delivery milestone it's tied to, not just when a check arrives, or revenue timing drifts from when the work was actually done. We build the chart of accounts to separate PO-driven revenue, work-in-process inventory, and equipment costs from overhead, and close the books every month so your CPA gets numbers that are already reconciled.

The combined rate is the same either way, but which side of a transaction it belongs on differs — tax on what you buy and tax on what you charge a customer are two different bookkeeping entries, and mixing them up leaves a sales-tax-payable account that won't tie out. Per the Texas Comptroller, Texas levies a 6.25% state sales and use tax, and local jurisdictions can add up to 2% more. The Fort Worth share includes a 0.5% transit tax from the Fort Worth Transportation Authority — branded Trinity Metro since 2018 — in place since April 1, 1984, known for decades before that as "The T." We track both sides correctly so the account ties out; taxability itself stays a question for your CPA.