Construction & Building Products
Job-level financial control for contractors and the building products companies that supply them.
Construction is a business of thin margins and long timelines. A job can move from profitable to underwater through unapproved change orders, labor overruns, material price spikes, or a subcontractor falling behind, and most of it stays hidden until the WIP schedule catches up. Building products manufacturers and distributors face a version of the same problem: commodity input costs, rebate-heavy pricing, and inventory tied to a cyclical order book.
Buxbaum works with general contractors, specialty trades, and building products businesses to see job and product economics as they unfold, not months later. We help leadership know which jobs, crews, and product lines actually make money, catch cost and billing gaps early, and produce financials that hold up with sureties, lenders, and buyers.
What We Offer Construction Companies:
- Job cost and WIP reporting under percentage-of-completion, including estimated cost to complete, over and under billings, and gross profit fade analysis by job and project manager
- Change order, retainage, and subcontractor billing accounting so earned margin is captured and billed rather than lost in the paperwork
- Bond-ready financial statements and working capital reporting that meet surety, lender, and covenant requirements
- Cash forecasting built around pay applications, retainage release, pay-when-paid terms, and equipment and labor commitments
- Product and customer margin for building products companies, covering landed cost, manufacturer rebates, freight, and inventory turns across a cyclical demand curve
- Job cost and ERP systems support on Sage, Epicor, Foundation, and other project management and ERP systems that reconciles job cost to the GL
- Quality of Earnings and diligence support covering WIP accuracy, backlog gross profit, contract-level margin history, and owner compensation normalization