Roofing · Illinois
Insurance work and retail work are different businesses. Your books treat them as one.
Roofing carries three problems at once: two revenue streams with different margins, subcontractor costs that never tie back to a job, and a schedule the weather controls.
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Roofing bookkeeping for Illinois contractors
We do monthly roofing bookkeeping for contractors running insurance restoration work, retail replacement work, or both. Every transaction categorized, accounts reconciled monthly, and a US CPA review and sign-off before anything reaches you.
Roofing accounting has a problem most trades do not: two revenue streams with genuinely different margins that get reported as one number. A roofing bookkeeper who knows the trade splits insurance from retail, ties subcontractor cost back to the individual job, and builds books that reflect a schedule the weather controls.
What is different in Illinois
The Illinois context.
Season and demand
Hard winters and hot, humid summers give HVAC two strong peaks. Deep winter freezes produce concentrated bursts of emergency plumbing work, often across a handful of days.
The market
The Chicago metro anchors a mature, competitive market with a large commercial and industrial base. Prevailing wage work is common on public projects, which puts more weight on payroll classification and record-keeping than in most states.
Tax and entity context
Illinois applies a flat personal income tax rate, which makes owner distributions predictable to plan around.
We work with roofing contractors throughout Illinois, including Chicago, Aurora, Naperville, Rockford and Springfield.
What we build into your books
The three things that change first.
Insurance versus retail, separated
Two margins, tracked apart. It usually changes where the marketing money goes.
Subcontractor cost per job
What went out to subs, measured against what came in on that job. The jobs that do not work stop being invisible.
Weather-driven cash flow
Books that reflect a rained-out month, so a bad stretch is something you planned for rather than something you discover.
Roofing clients
In their words.
Roofing
Weather runs my schedule and my cash flow, and I'd never had books that reflected that reality. They set it up so I can see what a rained-out month actually does to me. First time in 12 years I've felt ahead of it instead of behind it.
Steven Bauer
Excel Roofing LLC
Weather-driven cash flow planning
Roofing
Insurance work versus retail work — completely different margins, and I was lumping it all together. Splitting those out was eye-opening. I've shifted where I spend my marketing money because of it.
Brett Hansen
Hansen & Group
Separated insurance vs. retail job margins
Roofing
I was 8 months behind and had a bank asking for financials for a line of credit I needed. They got me current in time. That's not an exaggeration — that deadline was real and they hit it.
Matthew Novak
Durabest Roofing
Books brought current for bank financing deadline
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