Job detail, firm books
Jobs vs firm
A Job Is Not a Second Company
Project accounting lets you attribute costs and invoices to a build. The contractor still closes firm books unless each job is its own legal entity.
For construction & tradesAccounting Software
Accounting Software
for Construction
Each job has its own costs and billings. The contractor still needs invoices, bills, and reports the firm can close — without pretending to generate AIA packages or file 1099s.
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The category in one sentence
Keep Job Costs on Closable Books
A job is how you deliver. Accounting software for construction still has to show billings, costs, cash, and firm reports. Progress invoices are accounting documents — not an AIA G702 generator.
Invoice, not G702
Progress vs forms
Progress Invoices Are Not AIA Output
Bill percent-complete or milestones from the ledger while construction documentation stays in the specialist workflow.
COI, 1099, liens
Paperwork stays adjacent
Compliance Packs Live Next Door
Certificates of insurance, lien waivers, and 1099 filing belong in the tools and processes that already handle them. They are not built into NewLedger.
In the ledger
What Job Work Looks Like on the Books
Field apps run the site. These are the records the contractor actually costs, bills, and closes.
How the work moves
From Job Cost to a Closed Firm Period
The jobsite system runs the field. The ledger runs costing, billing, and close.
- 01
Cost the Job on the Books
Attribute materials, sub bills, and invoices to a job so job P&L is a view of the ledger.
- 02
Bill Progress from Invoices
Percent-complete and milestone invoices are accounting documents. They are not G702 output.
- 03
Close the Firm Books
Reconcile draws, review change-order money, and report from the records just approved. WIP schedules remain a reporting process on top of those records.
A job walkthrough
Job Cost, Change Order, Then the Invoice
Costing and billing are accounting documents on the job. Payment applications remain a specialist pack beside the books.
Cost the Job as It Happens
Materials and subcontractor bills post to the job so job P&L is a view of the ledger.
A Change Order Becomes Billable Work
When the owner agrees a change, the extra work is billed as an invoice on the same job — not as a note in a field app.
Progress Billing Is Still an Invoice
Percent-complete or milestone invoices are accounting documents the firm can review. They are not G702/G703 output.
AIA payment applications, COI, and lien waivers stay in the documents and processes that already handle them. NewLedger does not generate those packs.
What the ledger holds
Invoices, Bills, Recon, and Reports
The accounting work is the same as any other contractor. The operating model is jobs instead of a construction ERP.
Job Costing on the Books
Attribute materials, sub bills, and invoices to a job so job P&L is a view of the ledger.
Project accountingProgress and Milestone Invoices
Bill from the same invoicing tools used elsewhere in NewLedger. Retainage is an accounting treatment you post — not an automatic withhold module.
Online invoicingReconcile Draws and Deposits
Match receipts to billed work so cash and AR can be explained together.
Bank reconciliationFirm Reports from Those Records
P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow come from the books just reviewed. WIP schedules remain a reporting process on top of those records.
Financial reportingReview Change-Order Money
Route material bills, journals, and invoice changes to an owner before they close into the period.
Approvals and audit controlsConnect Where a Connector Exists
Payments and operations connectors are listed on the integrations page. Confirm coverage; do not assume a tax-engine or AIA product is included.
Accounting software integrationsWhat stays adjacent
Field Tools Are Not the Ledger
NewLedger keeps the books. Estimating, AIA packages, COI, and tax filing belong to the products that already do that work.
NewLedger
Invoices, bills, job attribution, reconciliation, review, and firm reports.
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Estimating and Project Ops
Bids, schedules, and field apps stay in construction operations software.
NewLedger keeps their accounting impact on the books.
AIA, COI, Liens, 1099
Payment applications and subcontractor compliance packs are specialist documents and filings.
Not generated or filed by NewLedger.
Tax Engines
Nexus, sales and use tax, and filing products stay next to accounting.
Tax outputs can support the entries finance reviews.
Is this the right door?
For Contractors and Trades
Use this page when you cost jobs and still need closable firm books. It is not a construction ERP.
For accounting firms managing client books, multi-entity finance teams, or software platforms requiring embedded accounting, explore the corresponding NewLedger or Paprel route.
Start at accounting firms, finance teams, growing businesses, or Paprel.
You cost jobs and still need closable firm books
Progress invoices can live on the ledger without an AIA generator
COI, lien, and 1099 work can stay adjacent
You want invoices, recon, and reports in one accounting system
Other Industries on NewLedger
Next step
Start from a Ledger You Can Review
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