Helping you build a better business
Building something that lasts feels great, whether it’s a large construction project or a successful business. Struggling to get timely financial statements so you can increase bonding? That doesn’t feel so great. Come to think of it, neither does wrestling with wage and hours issues, or wishing you had better tools to interpret your WIP and real-time project profitability.
There’s a better way. When you partner with James Moore, you can focus on doing what you do best while we focus on what we do best: helping you increase profitability, improve operations, and build the value of your company at every point in the business cycle.
Measurably Better
James Moore brings innovative solutions and niche-specific insights to support the full range of construction professionals:
- General contractors and subcontractors
- Federal and state government contractors
- Commercial contractors
- Residential contractors
- Multi-industry contractors
- Multi-state contractors
Building Stronger Bottom Lines: A Guide to Tax Planning for Construction Companies
Smart tax planning can determine whether a construction company thrives or struggles. This whitepaper highlights industry-specific strategies to help you build financial strength and long term success, from maximizing deductions and credits to optimizing business structures, contracts and succession planning.
Fix Job Costing Errors Before They Hit Your 2026 Profits
Grow Your Construction Business with a Fractional CFO
Need c-suite financial expertise but not the c-suite cost? See how our fractional CFO services can help your construction company level up!
On-Demand Webinar: Financials for Bonding
If you have aspirations of taking your construction business to the next level, securing bonding capacity is key to your success.
In this on-demand webinar, James Moore’s Webb Shephard explains the key financial reports and statements your business must have to secure the bonding to work on government and public works projects.
A Comprehensive Guide to Construction Accounting
Understanding the complexities of construction accounting is essential as your business grows, especially when you move from smaller residential projects to large commercial and government contracts. This guide provides invaluable insights into the unique accounting challenges construction companies face — the differences between construction and traditional accounting, key financial statements, effective accounting management practices and more. Let this essential resource be your guide to responsible financial management and sustainable growth!
Why do you need a CPA that specializes in construction?
The specialized financial reporting, income tax rules and cyclical nature of the construction business mean that it’s essential to partner with a construction CPA firm that knows your industry. There are numerous rules, requirements and regulations that are unique to construction. And to keep you up to date, we provide a comprehensive guide to construction accounting.
Bottom line, when it comes to your accounting needs, a one-size-fits-all approach simply won’t cut it. For example, a CPA that doesn’t fully understand the nuances of material price trends and the allocation of overhead will make mistakes that, over time, can cripple even the biggest construction companies. Like many aspects of construction itself, precision and expertise are essential when it comes to budgeting and accounting.
After all, your finances are the foundation of your business because they affect every other aspect—from day-to-day operations to future plans for growth and transition. If you build on a weak foundation, your future plans may come crumbling down.
Why hire our construction CPAs?
Our goal is to continually improve your business and make it run more smoothly. That means we’re constantly working to increase our knowledge and the level of service you receive. It’s a commitment to always be bettering ourselves. To go above and beyond every day. Just like you.
When you partner with us, you’ll work with a team focused on understanding your business and finding effective strategies to help you achieve your objectives. For the construction industry, that means improving job cost controls, implementing the right accounting software, interpreting the numbers to accurately project profitability, and creating timely and accurate financial statements to help increase bonding.
Outsourced Accounting Services
Having a robust in-house accounting team is ideal. But in reality, this isn’t feasible for many construction companies due to the tremendous investment of time and money to operate that way. By partnering with our experienced outsourced construction accountants, you can fully manage your accounting operations. (Consider us your off-site accounting department.)
Depending on your company’s needs, we can grow or shrink the scope of our services to provide the targeted solutions you’re looking for. We have experience handling everything from bill payment, payroll processing and maintaining a general financial ledger to preparing financial statements, month-end adjustments, taxes and annual audits.
In particular, small and mid-sized construction companies have benefited from our outsourced accounting services.
Our Construction Accounting
Solutions & Services
As a contractor, your financial statements tell an important story about your past, present and future performance. Accurate and timely financial reporting helps you operate your business successfully and profitably, and it shows others about your financial capabilities.
Your potential clients want accurate financial statements so they can make an informed decision about potentially hiring you.
Our construction CPAs can help you tell your story in the best light possible. We’ll advise you about the level of assurance that best suits your needs and show you how to improve your internal reporting to help you better manage your business.
Contractors, home builders, engineering firms, real estate companies …they all have specialized accounting and income tax rules to follow. Contractors working across state lines also have additional income and payroll tax liabilities in those states. You want to make sure you’re taking full advantage of the numerous special deductions, credits, excise taxes and other elections available.
As experienced accounts specializing in the construction industry, we are well versed in the details of construction tax issues. We will help you select the best accounting method to help delay reporting income, deferring tax and more. By taking advantage of the tax breaks available to you, you can minimize your tax burden while maximizing your cash flow.
You’ve got goals for your construction company, like taking on bigger projects, growing your book of business, managing job costs and obtaining desired licenses. But achieving them takes work beyond your day-to-day accounting and operations. It requires expert knowledge in financial analysis, budgeting and strategic planning, as well as construction-specific accounting experience to meet your unique challenges and needs.
Our fractional CFO services provide the knowledge and expertise of a chief financial officer without having to have one on your payroll. We handle risk management and compliance, financial forecasting, relationships with your banks and much more — all at a price that works for you.
Your construction company’s financial success depends on solid and consistent accounting practices. But finding qualified people for the job isn’t always easy. It’s also expensive to bring them onboard, train them and pay their salary and overhead.
Our construction CPAs have worked with companies of all sizes and disciplines to perform bank and credit card reconciliations, job costing, monthly financial statement preparation, accounts payable and receivable and much more. We can help you in a way that best fits your business, be it a la carte services or a complete outsourced accounting solution (or somewhere in between).
Whether you need to complement your existing financial staff or take it off your plate entirely, our construction CPAs can provide a customized accounting solution that suits your needs — and grows with you.
Construction accounting, reporting and software are complicated. There are many methods of accounting that can be used in your industry. And you have multiple construction jobs running simultaneously, with each job requiring you to monitor its budget, cash flow, job progress, expenditures… It’s almost like running several businesses at once.
So it stands to reason that construction accounting involves much more than debits and credits. Do you have the tools and reporting you need? And do you really understand how to read them (and the story they are telling you)?
As knowledgeable construction CPAs, we can help you with these and other complexities you encounter. We invite you to leverage our expertise to help run your business better and more profitably.
When bidding and obtaining a bid bond for a proposal, time is of the essence. The last thing you need is a delay caused by a CPA unfamiliar with the importance of responding quickly to bid-related requests—or a communications gap between you, your CPA, your bonding agent and the surety. You also don’t want to have difficulty explaining your financial statements to surety professionals.
Timely, clear and consistent financial communication with your bond agent and surety underwriter is critical to maintain or increase your bonding capacity so that you can continue to replenish and grow your backlog.
Our construction CPAs can help paint your financial story in the best light and make sure there are no misunderstandings. We understand the surety underwriting process, and we can effectively bridge the communication and knowledge gaps between your company and other parties.
With the growth in new construction, many construction companies face an increasing need for qualified workers—from general laborers to plumbers, masons, electricians and other skilled tradespeople. If you don’t have a qualified workforce, you have a delay on the job that costs you time and money.
As a result, many construction companies are turning to outsourced human resources service providers to address their needs. From recruiting and retention to long-term personnel planning, external HR consulting helps firms like yours find and retain qualified employees to jobs done faster and better.
Our HR Solutions team brings decades of combined experience to your company so that you can find the right help for your jobs. We can also show you how to stay in compliance with ever-changing employment regulations and safety requirements in order to protect your company from costly lawsuits and state and federal penalties.
From a one-time consult to a consistent HR presence, we have a solution for every firm.
In construction, families and key management team members often work together and stay in business for decades. So it’s expected that a construction company will continue operating long after the founder retires. Yet many owners have no transition plan established.
Leaving the helm might seem like a long way off, but time moves quickly and life (like projects) doesn’t always go as planned. A written transition plan ensures that your vision for your firm is fulfilled and protects your family, your employees, and your customers.
We have the construction transition planning knowledge to help contractors prepare for an expected (or unexpected) transfer of ownership. By drafting a written plan documenting the steps to be taken when the time comes, you and your team will have peace of mind knowing that nothing is left to chance.
We position IT as a strategic growth driver, not a background utility. We help clients cut downtime, reduce risk and gain real value through services built around their goals.
Our differentiator is proof, not promises. With guaranteed response times, daily backup checks, recovery drills and training that reduces threats, we hold ourselves accountable to results that matter. Our team combines 24/7 monitoring, proactive planning and compliance expertise with a consultative style that keeps your business first.
We’re more than a managed service provider. We’re an IT partner backed by nearly 60 years of firmwide legacy in audit, advisory and compliance. That means credibility, accountability and financial rigor are built into every engagement.
Bringing credibility and accountability to every engagement, we help small and midsize businesses, nonprofits and public organizations access protections once reserved for larger enterprises:
- Cybersecurity with modern threat detection and fast response
- Disaster resilience through backup testing and recovery planning
- Cloud and Microsoft 365 migrations that minimize disruption
- Technology planning that delivers roadmaps and budgets leaders can trust
Our clients rely on us to turn IT from a cost center into a tool for growth, keeping them secure today and ready for tomorrow.
Construction Success Stories
Ready to see how our construction accounting and consulting services can help build your success?
Check out our case studies to see how we’ve guided construction companies with tailored solutions, from financial management to strategic planning.
How One Construction Company Grew from $250K to $12 Million in 5 Years
How We Unlocked A $500,000 Cash Flow Boost for One Plumbing Company
Transforming Construction Accounting with Outsourced Expertise
What It's Like to Work With James Moore
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Free downloadable resources
November 2024 CICPAC Economic Newsletter
From GDP growth to material costs and labor trends, the November 2024 Economic Newsletter provides a comprehensive outlook on key factors influencing your business decisions. Download now for the latest economic insights shaping the construction industry!
Revenue Recognition Implementation Guide for Construction
ASC 606-10-25-1 requires your company’s management to make additional judgments on recognizing revenue associated with contracts. Download this free whitepaper with all the details.
CICPAC Tax Planning Guide for the Construction Industry
CICPAC's Tax Thought Leadership Committee has recently updated its tax planning missive to summarize the tax guidance that could impact construction companies. Learn more in this informative whitepaper.
CICPAC | PAS, Inc. Compensation Report
The survey provides a multidimensional overview of salaries for three chosen positions in the construction industry, emphasizing the importance of considering multiple categories, position descriptions, and external factors to effectively tailor compensation practices to your company's unique circumstances. Download the report for the complete results.
Webb Shephard, CPA
Partner
As a CPA and consultant with nearly 15 years of experience, Webb has earned the trust of clients from a broad range of industries. His primary focus is serving the needs of construction-related companies.
The leader of our firm’s Construction Services Team, Webb has helped many industry clients with audits/reviews/compilations, tax planning and compliance, bonding and surety support, revenue cycle enhancement, transition planning and more under tax, outsourced accounting and fractional CFO services. He is a member of Construction Industry CPAs and Consultants (CICPAC) (including the CICPAC Emerging Leaders group) and the Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA).
Prior to joining James Moore, Webb was the Director of Operations for a national telecommunications contract company. Being in upper-level management for nearly a decade gave Webb unique experience that not many other CPAs possess – leading to insight that helps him better identify organizational and financial issues that are ripe for improvement. He also has a background in computer engineering and is CompTIA A+ certified.
Alex Gartland, CPA
Tax Manager
Andrew Ferguson, CPA
Senior Manager
Bryant Rafferty
Senior Manager
Caleb Brogan, CPA*
Senior Tax Manager
Chantelle Davis
ACS Manager
Curtis (C.J.) Leonard, Jr., CPA
Senior Manager
Daniel Roccanti, CPA
Director
Jeremy Wright, CPA
Partner
Jordan Irvan, CPA
Senior Manager
Julie Kniseley, SHRM-SCP
President, HR Solutions
Melissa Lingo
Business Development Manager
Michael Messano, CPA
Senior Manager
Rebeca Denahan
Partner
Scott Withrow
Director of Construction Advisory Services
Smoak Allen, CPA, CCIFP
Director





