QuickBooks cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, and business advisory for Ohio Valley electrical contractors.
Local Context · 01
Your Books Should Be Too.
You're managing projects, tracking materials by job, handling subcontractor payments, and trying to figure out if your bids are actually covering your costs.
A generic bookkeeper sets up your QuickBooks the same way they'd set it up for a coffee shop. No job costing. No project tracking. Materials lumped into one category.
You have no idea which jobs made money and which ones cost you. That's not a bookkeeping problem. That's a business problem.
Services · 02
Project billing, materials by job, subcontractor payments, bonding requirements — electrical books need someone who understands how the work actually gets done. Kristal has been setting them up right for Ohio Valley electrical contractors since 2011. Both tracks start with getting your QuickBooks right.
Monthly bookkeeping, CFO advisory, and ongoing support — so you never have to think about it again.
We clean up your books, train your admin, and leave behind a guide — so your team can handle it going forward.
What that actually looks like for electricians. Cleanup. Monthly close. The leave-behind playbook. Three things we do every day for electrical contractors across Ohio and West Virginia.
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Electrical contractors deal with project billing, material costs, and subcontractors that most generic QuickBooks setups never account for. We go into your file and build the foundation an electrical operation actually needs.
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We keep your books clean every month and talk to you about what the numbers mean for your electrical operation. Bid decisions, equipment purchases, adding crew — you'll have real numbers behind every call.
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Most electrical contractors have an office person handling the books who has never been trained on how an electrical operation should be coded. We fix that — without making anyone feel bad about how it got here.
The Transformation · 04
You know your margin on every project before you bid the next one. Materials and labor are coded correctly by job. Your books hold up when a bonding company or lender asks for your financials. No more finding out a project cost you money after the crew has moved on.
Job costing by project means every electrical engagement tells you the real numbers. Profitable projects become clear. The ones eating your margin become visible before you commit to the next bid.
Materials by job, labor by project, subcontractor payments in the right place. Your P&L reflects the real cost of running an electrical operation — not a generic approximation.
Clean, project-level financials built around how electrical contracting actually works. When a bonding company or lender asks for your P&L, you hand it over without hesitation.
Next Steps · 05
We spend about an hour in your books. We tell you exactly what we find. No charge, no obligation.
Based on what we find, we put together a proposal — either we take over the books or we train your team. Whichever makes more sense for your business.
Cleanup first, every time. Then monthly bookkeeping or team training — whichever track you chose. No surprises.
Start with a free QuickBooks Review and find out exactly what your books are telling you.
We'll be straight with you — we wrote this section so Google shows this page when Ohio Valley electrical contractors search for a bookkeeper.
If you're an electrical contractor in Ohio or West Virginia looking for a bookkeeper who actually understands your business, you're in the right place. 740 Accounting & Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping and business advisory for electrical contractors — residential electricians, commercial electrical contractors, and electrical subcontractors — across the Ohio Valley.
Most electrical contractors are running QuickBooks without job costing set up correctly — or at all. You can't tell which projects made money, which customers are worth keeping, or whether your bids are actually covering your costs. Our QuickBooks Cleanup service fixes the foundation and sets up job costing the way an electrical operation actually runs — by project, by phase, by crew.
From there, we either handle the books through our monthly bookkeeping service or clean everything up and train your team through our employee training service. It always starts with a free QuickBooks review — about an hour, no charge.
Electrical contractors who want to grow need books that hold up. Bonding companies want clean, auditable financials. Banks want a P&L that makes sense. General contractors awarding bigger subcontracts want financial credibility.
If your books can't demonstrate profitability and stability, the bond doesn't get approved and the loan doesn't go through. We make sure your books can hold up when it counts.
We're not a generalist bookkeeper who serves every kind of business. We specialize in trades — and our owner Kristal Hunkler ran a trades business herself for over 20 years. She knows project billing, subcontractor payments, and what an electrical contractor's books need to look like to support growth and stand up to a lender's review. She's been serving Ohio Valley trades businesses since 2011.
Searching for "bookkeeper for electricians Ohio," "electrical contractor bookkeeping Ohio Valley," or "QuickBooks job costing electrician"? We've been serving Ohio and West Virginia since 2011. Start with a free QuickBooks review.