Builder Accounting Should Tell You More Than What You Spent.
Your accounting system keeps the project numbers straight. Bivvit helps you compare completed projects and use what happened when you look at the next budget.
Your accounting system records transactions, assigns costs to jobs and cost codes, and produces the reports your CPA and your lender expect. That work matters, and Bivvit depends on it.
Accounting tells you what happened. Bivvit tells you what it means.
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What your books already do well
For a residential builder, accounting is mostly about keeping project financial activity organized well enough to be trusted later.
- Job cost tracking
Every invoice, subcontract payment and change order coded to a project and a cost code, so hard costs and soft costs land in the right place.
- Cost codes
A consistent chart of cost categories — sitework, foundation, framing, mechanical, finishes — that makes project comparison possible later.
- Vendor and payment records
Who was paid, when, against which contract, and what remains committed.
- Budget tracking
The original budget held alongside actuals so variance is visible during the job, not only after it.
- Financial reporting
Period reporting, work-in-progress schedules and statements prepared with your accountant.
- Tax and compliance
Returns, entity reporting and the records that support them — work your CPA and accounting system own.
Your accounting system can tell you what was spent
It is not designed to tell you whether the spending was good. Bivvit helps answer:
- Was the project actually profitable, after financing and carry?
- Which cost categories missed budget, and by how much?
- What did the project cost per square foot, hard and total?
- How did it compare to prior projects you have built?
- Where was margin lost between the estimate and the sale?
- How long was capital tied up before it came back?
- Which project types perform best for your company?
- What should change on the next project budget?
Two different jobs
- Records transactionsInterprets project performance
- Tracks job costsCompares job costs across projects
- Organizes cost codesFinds cost trends by category
- Produces financial reportsExplains what the project did
- Reports actual spendingExplains variance
- Focuses on individual transactions and projectsCompares your completed projects
- Records historyHelps you use history on the next project
You need accounting. Bivvit makes that data more valuable.
Related Guides
- Construction Job Costing
How to understand costs by job and cost code.
- Budget vs Actual
How to see where the project missed and why.
- Construction Accounting
How project accounting works on residential jobs.
Put It Against Your Own Projects.
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