Quick answer: Our Construction Reporting Package is a sample set of the management reports we build for contractor clients — detailed job costing, billing and WIP position, labor efficiency, labor-and-insurance burden, an executive profitability summary, a bonding and banking dashboard, a backlog-to-cash forecast, and a profit-fade risk monitor. Every figure shown is illustrative sample data.
What’s inside the package
- Detailed job costing — cost-code level estimate vs. actual with variance and margin impact.
- Executive job profitability summary — multi-project portfolio view with revised contract value, costs to date and committed costs.
- Billing & WIP — billed vs. costs, over/under billing position and retainage held.
- Profit fade & risk monitor — early warning on margin erosion, underbilling exposure, retainage drag and aging change orders.
- Bonding & banking dashboard — working capital, current and quick ratios, and the indicators sureties and lenders actually review.
- Backlog & cash flow forecast — projected revenue, gross profit, payroll and net cash position from remaining backlog.
- Labor efficiency & margin — revenue per field employee, wages and average loaded rate by project.
- Cross-project labor & burden analysis — wages, union dues and fringes, and workers comp/GL burden against target, built for bid accuracy and margin control.
Why contractors ask for these reports
Most contractors can tell you what a job billed. Far fewer can tell you, mid-job, whether the margin they bid is still there — or whether they are underbilled and quietly financing the owner. These reports are built to answer that while the job is still running, which is the only point at which the answer is useful.
They also answer the questions a surety or lender asks before increasing a bonding line: what is working capital, how disciplined is billing, and how reliable is the backlog forecast.
Download the sample package
Download the Construction Reporting Package (Excel sample)
All projects, owners, project managers and dollar amounts in the sample are illustrative and do not represent any actual client.
Related construction accounting reading
- Construction job costing: how contractors track cost by cost code
- WIP schedules and percentage of completion
- Overbilling and underbilling explained
- Retainage accounting
Want these built from your own books? Learn about our construction accounting services and construction job costing services, or contact us for a consultation.