Fractional CFO & Operations Consulting
Your job costing shouldn’t be a house of cards.
Smith & Company Accounting is a fractional CFO and controller practice built exclusively for mid-market construction companies. We turn your numbers into decisions – not just tax season paperwork.
You didn’t get into construction to become a part-time accountant. Most contractors in the $5M-$20M range hit the same wall: the bookkeeping is technically “done,” but nobody can answer the questions that actually matter.
01
Which jobs are making money – and which ones are quietly bleeding you dry?
02
Is your WIP schedule telling the truth, or just telling your bank what they want to hear?
03
Can you forecast cash three months out – or find out about a shortfall the week it happens?
What we do
Three ways we get inside your numbers – and keep you ahead of them.
Fractional CFO / Controller
Executive-level financial leadership without the executive-level salary. We’re in your numbers monthly — not just at year-end — so decisions get made on data, not gut feel.
Construction Operations Consulting
Job costing, WIP methodology, and process design built for how construction actually works — not a generic bookkeeping template with ‘contractor’ typed into the header bar.
Project profitability & WIP analysis
Our proprietary multi-variance WIP framework shows exactly where a job went sideways — labor, materials, billing, or estimate — before it becomes a pattern across your backlog.
Why construction, specifically
We don’t split our attention across dentists, e-commerce stores, and law firms. Construction accounting has its own dialect — percentage of completion, retainage, underbilling, change order chaos — and most general practitioners are translating it as they go.
We’re not.
We speak fluent WIP schedule. It won’t keep squirrels out of your attic, but it does make audits go a lot faster.
$5M-$20M
Revenue range we build for
4
Variance categories in our WIP methodology
CPA
Licensed, principle-led engagements
Licensed CPA-led practice
Built for $5M-$20M contractors
QBO · Knowify · Ramp · Gusto · BILL
Public accounting to fractional CFO
How we work
Diagnostic, build, run. No 40-page onboarding binder nobody reads.
Phase 01
Diagnostic
We find out what’s actually broken in your financial operation – not guessing, measuring.
Phase 02
Build
We build the reporting, WIP schedules, the controls, and the platform that fix what the diagnostic found.
Phase 03
Run
We stay on as your monthly financial partner — not a once-a-year visitor.
Let’s find out what your numbers have been hiding.
A 30-minute diagnostic call tells you exactly where your financial operation stands — and whether we’re the right fit to fix it.