Know Exactly Which Jobs Make You Money.
Stop guessing on margins. We give you true cost-per-job so you can bid smarter, protect your profit, and stop finding out too late that a job lost money.
Construction Job Costing & Cost Accounting for Arizona Contractors
Built for Contractors Who Want to Bid With Confidence
You're bidding and winning work — but you're not actually sure which jobs made money and which quietly bled. You want to know your true cost per job so you can bid with confidence and stop guessing on margins.
Owner-Operators
You wear every hat and estimate on the fly. Job costing gives you real numbers behind your gut feelings.
Growth-Minded Contractors
You're scaling up and need visibility into which jobs are actually worth taking on.
Small to Mid-Size Crews
Multiple jobs, crews, and subs running at once. You need clarity before the month ends, not months later.
Looking for a different service?
If You Can't Cost a Job, You're Bidding Blind.
Most contractors know their bank balance but not their margins. Labor, materials, equipment, overhead, change orders — if those aren't tracked against each job, 'profitable' is just a feeling, not a number.
You win the bid, do the work, and hope it penciled out. One badly-costed job can wipe out the profit from three good ones — and you'd never see it coming.
You feel busy but can't tell if you're actually profitable
Labor, materials, and overhead are tracked in one big bucket
Change orders quietly eat into margin without anyone noticing
One bad job wipes out the profit from three good ones
Real Numbers Behind Every Job.
Job-level reporting and bookkeeping that turns guessing into confident bidding.
True Cost-Per-Job Tracking
Labor, materials, equipment, and overhead assigned to each job — not dumped in one account.
Job Profitability Reports
See which jobs are winners and which are quietly bleeding, so you stop repeating mistakes.
Estimating Support
Use real historical costs to build bids that reflect what the job actually takes.
Change-Order Tracking
Scope creep is flagged before it turns your margin into a loss.
Clean Books for Accurate Costing
Your books are organized so job costing isn't a guessing game at month-end.
WIP Reporting
Work-in-progress reporting for larger contractors managing multiple active jobs.
Kevin Wannlund
Enrolled Agent & Founder
I'm Kevin Wannlund, an Enrolled Agent and the founder of Guidepost Tax & Accounting. I work exclusively with Arizona contractors and construction businesses, helping them keep their books clean, lower their tax bills, and make cash flow predictable.
The Plan
Three steps to bidding with confidence.
Book a Call
Tell us how you bid today and where you're stuck.
We Set Up Job Costing
We build job-level tracking that matches how your business actually works.
You Bid Smarter
Know your margins, protect your profit, and stop flying blind.
Know Your True Margin on Every Active Job — or Your Onboarding Is Free.
Within 60 days you'll know the true profit margin on every active job — or your onboarding is free. Numbers you can bid from, not guesses.
Ready to Stop Bidding Blind?
Book a free call and we'll show you how job costing can give you confidence on every bid.