Bookkeeping for contractors, small businesses, truckers, and trades in Marietta and Washington County.
Local Context · 01
Marietta contractors and small businesses are running operations where cash flow is tight and every project needs to carry its weight. Without job costing, you're finding out a job lost money after the crew is already gone.
A generic bookkeeper sets up your QuickBooks the same way they'd set it up for any business. No project tracking. No job costing. Materials and labor lumped together where they tell you nothing useful.
Bonding applications, equipment loans, hiring decisions — 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 Marietta and the Mid-Ohio Valley.
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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 made money before you commit to the next contract. Your books hold up when a Washington County lender or bonding company asks for your financials. Every major decision backed by real numbers.
Job costing by project means every Marietta contract tells you the truth. Stop finding out which jobs made money after the crew is already gone.
Clean, reconciled financials built around how your operation actually runs. When a Washington County bank or bonding company asks for your P&L, you hand it over without hesitation.
Monthly close means you see what's coming before it hits. Equipment decisions, hiring, bigger bids — all backed by clean current numbers.
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 Marietta contractors and small businesses search for a bookkeeper.
740 Accounting & Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping and business advisory for trades businesses and small businesses across Marietta and Washington County — contractors, plumbers, electricians, truckers, landscapers, and remodelers.
Most Marietta 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 out of reconciliation. Our QuickBooks Cleanup service goes into the file you already have and fixes the foundation. No 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 Marietta and throughout Washington County — including Parkersburg, Belpre, and communities along the Ohio River into West Virginia. In-person when you need it. Virtual when that works better.
We're not a national remote service. We're based in Barnesville — close to the realities of running a trades business in this part of Ohio. Kristal Hunkler ran a trades business for over 20 years and has been serving Ohio Valley businesses since 2011.
Searching for "bookkeeper Marietta Ohio" or "QuickBooks bookkeeper Washington County"? Start with a free QuickBooks review — no sales pitch, just an honest look at what's there.