Iron House runs the whole construction back office — Xero, GST, payroll, payables and debtors, plus the part a normal bookkeeper will not touch: payment claims under the Act, contract administration, retentions and variations.
You priced the job. You did not price the six hours a week it takes to chase the supplier statement, code the invoices, get the timesheets in, file the GST, follow the debtor and write the claim.
So it gets done at ten o’clock at night, or it gets done in a hurry, or it does not get done.
That is where a normal bookkeeper finishes. Construction does not finish there.
Every job gets coded to a fixed standard — cost codes on one axis, jobs on the other. At any point in the build you can see what that job has cost, by element, against what you priced it at.
Get the coding wrong and the numbers still come out. They are just wrong, and they look fine.
The most common one: payroll posts to the ledger as a journal, so the wages never appear on the job cost export. Every job reads better than it is, and nothing on the report warns you. We have seen a single job come out roughly $10,000 light for exactly that reason.
We check the coding before anything goes live. Every time, including when you have set it up yourself.
Ankica came out of a corporate background and spent 25 years running the office of a construction company with Eddie. Contract administration, Construction Contracts Act compliance, quantity surveying, tenders, back-costing, budgets, Xero.
She is not a bookkeeper who picked up a few building clients. She ran the office of a building company that won awards for how it operated.
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