Bookkeeping for contractors, small businesses, truckers, and trades in Cambridge and Guernsey County.
Local Context · 01
Cambridge contractors and small businesses are running operations where the margin is tight and every job needs to count. Without job costing, you're bidding on instinct — not numbers.
A generic bookkeeper sets it up wrong from the start. No job costing. No project tracking. Materials and labor dumped into categories that tell you nothing.
Equipment decisions, hiring, bigger contracts — every major call gets made without a current number to back it up.
Services · 02
Both start with getting your QuickBooks right.
Monthly bookkeeping, CFO advisory, and ongoing support — so you never have to think about it again.
We clan up your books, train your admin, and leave behind a guide — so your team can handle it going forward.
What that actually looks like. Cleanup. Monthly close. The leave-behind playbook. Three things we do every day for trades businesses across Cambridge and Guernsey County.
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We go into your existing file, clean it up, and make it right. No blowing it up. No losing your history.
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We keep your books clean every month and actually talk to you about what the numbers mean. No surprise reports you don't understand.
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We train whoever handles your books, show them the right way to do it, and leave behind a written guide they can use every day.
The Transformation · 04
You know which jobs are profitable before you bid the next one. Your books hold up when a Guernsey County lender or bonding company asks for your financials. Every major business decision backed by real numbers.
Job costing built for trades means every Cambridge contract tells you the truth. Profitable jobs become clear before the next bid goes out.
Monthly close means you're never caught flat-footed. Equipment purchases, adding crew, taking on bigger work — all backed by clean numbers.
Clean, reconciled financials built around how your operation actually runs. When a lender or bonding company 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 Cambridge contractors and small businesses search for a bookkeeper.
740 Accounting & Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping and business advisory for trades businesses and small businesses across Cambridge and Guernsey County — contractors, plumbers, electricians, truckers, landscapers, and remodelers.
Most Cambridge trades businesses come to us because their QuickBooks was set up generically and never adapted to how they actually work. Wrong categories, no job costing, accounts that haven't been reconciled in months. Our QuickBooks Cleanup service fixes the foundation without starting over.
From there, we take over 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 — no charge, no obligation.
We work with businesses in Cambridge and throughout Guernsey County — including Byesville, Caldwell, and communities across the central Ohio region. In-person when you need it. Virtual when that works better.
We're not a national firm. We're based in Barnesville — close enough to know the local economy and the challenges of running a trades business in rural Ohio. Kristal Hunkler ran a trades business for over 20 years. She's been serving Ohio Valley businesses since 2011.
Searching for "bookkeeper Cambridge Ohio" or "QuickBooks bookkeeper Guernsey County"? Start with a free QuickBooks review — no sales pitch, just an honest look at what's there.