FINANCIAL SOLUTIONS BUILT FOR CONTRACTORS
Know Which Jobs Are Making You Money
You know what you bid the job for. Do you know what you actually made?
HillTex Business Solutions helps contractors turn their QuickBooks data into actionable financial insights—so you can protect margins, improve cash flow, and make better decisions on every job.
WHY JOB COSTING MATTERS
Revenue Doesn't Tell You If a Job Was Profitable
A project can generate significant revenue and still miss its profit target. Labor overruns, material costs, subcontractor expenses, missed change orders, and inaccurate estimates can quietly eat away at your margins.
HillTex helps you understand what's happening at the job level—not just what's sitting in the bank account.
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Compare estimated costs with actual labor, materials, subcontractors, and other job expenses to see exactly where a project went off plan
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Understand revenue, direct costs, gross profit, and gross margin for each project—not just the business as a whole.
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Identify where labor, materials, subcontractors, or other project costs are exceeding expectations before they consume your margin.
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Identify completed work, change orders, and other billable items that may not have made it onto an invoice.
HOW HILLTEX HELPS
Job Costing & Project Profitability
Knowing whether your business is profitable isn't enough. You need to know which jobs are driving that profit—and which ones are hurting it.
HillTex helps contractors build a job-costing system in QuickBooks that connects project revenue with the actual costs required to complete the work.
TRACK THE TRUE COST OF EVERY JOB
Contract & project revenue
Materials & supplies
Employee labor & payroll burden
Subcontractors
Equipment & rentals
Other direct job costs
Change orders
The goal isn't more reports. It's knowing where you're making money, where you're losing margin, and what to do about it.
UNDERSTAND THE RESULTS
Estimated vs. actual costs
Gross profit by project
Gross margin by project
Cost overruns
Unbilled work
Project performance trends
Opportunities to improve future estimates
ESTIMATE VS. ACTUAL
See Where the Profit Went
Winning the job is only the beginning. HillTex helps you compare what you expected a project to cost with what actually happened—so you can identify margin erosion and improve future estimates.
JOB COST ESTIMATED ACTUAL
Revenue
MATERIALS
LABOR
SUBCONTRACTORS
TOTAL JOB COST
GROSS PROFIT
GROSS MARGIN
$100,000
$36,500
$28,000
$16,000
$80,500
$19,500
19.5%
$100,000
$30,000
$25,000
$15,000
$70,000
$30,000
30.0%
BEYOND JOB COSTING
From Bookkeeping to CFO-Level Insight
$10,500
OF EXPECTED PROFIT LOST
The project still generated $100,000 in revenue, but higher material, labor, and subcontractor costs reduced gross margin from 30.0% to 19.5%.
Job costing shows you where the profit went.
CONTRACTOR BOOKKEEPING
Accurate QuickBooks bookkeeping with project-level income and expense tracking.
Best for: Contractors who need clean books and basic visibility into individual jobs.
JOB COSTING PLUS
Bookkeeping plus job costing, estimate-vs.-actual analysis, project profitability, change-order tracking, and regular financial reviews.
Best for: Contractors who want to understand what they're actually making on each job.
CONTRACTOR CFO
Job costing plus cash-flow forecasting, WIP and backlog analysis, overhead and break-even analysis, budgeting, KPIs, and CFO-level financial guidance.
Best for: Growing contractors who want a financial partner helping them manage the business.
WHY HILLTEX
More Than Bookkeeping
Contractors don't just need someone who understands QuickBooks. They need someone who understands how financial decisions connect to the way a construction business actually operates.
HillTex Business Solutions brings more than 20 years of business and financial leadership experience, including financial ownership of major product lines, business management, fractional CFO experience, and several years of experience as the COO of a commercial construction company.
That experience allows us to look beyond whether the books are accurate and help you understand what the numbers mean for your jobs, margins, cash flow, and overall business.
We're not here just to tell you what happened. We help you understand why it happened—and what to do next.
LET'S TALK
Know What Your Jobs Are Really Making
Better job costing can give you greater visibility into your projects, margins, and cash flow.
Whether you need accurate QuickBooks bookkeeping, project-level job costing, or CFO-level financial guidance, HillTex can help you build a financial system that supports better decisions and a stronger business.
Bookkeeping • Job Costing • Fractional CFO