Joinery and Civil Contracting Client

Client Profile Details

2M turnover
16 staff

2 min read

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Before Total Accounting

This construction business came to Total Accounting in crisis. An internal finance employee had left, recruitment had failed twice, and a recommendation led the director to pick up the phone. What he found when he arrived was a business running blind — CIS was wrong, VAT was being prepared quarterly instead of monthly, capital allowances on recently purchased assets had never been claimed, and retentions were so inaccurate that £15k of recoverable money had simply been written off. The director had no real visibility of what was happening in the accounts. Excel was still being used to price and control jobs. Cashflow was unpredictable and the overdraft was a regular feature.

What We Delivered

Full cloud accounting platform built from scratch — QuickBooks, Dext and ApprovalMax integrated
Tradify introduced for job management and accurate project pricing
CIS brought under control with a standard operating procedure
VAT moved to monthly — cashflow improved immediately
Project profitability reports set up for every active job
Capital allowances correctly claimed on existing assets
£15k of untracked retentions recovered
Director advised on tax-efficient company car structure

The Impact

£46K

Saved when compared to the previous set up

10%

Increase in margin improvement

Staff admin time saved weekly

The Difference

From struggling to pay merchants to putting £50,000 into a pension in the same year.

“I didn’t know what was going on in my own accounts. Now I have a system, a process, and numbers I can actually trust. We recovered money I didn’t even know we were owed — and I’m saving more than I thought was possible.”

— Managing Director, Construction & Joinery Business

The proof is in the numbers

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