A bookkeeping firm that keeps contractor books in QuickBooks Online and ControlQore. SPM refers contractors to DeFran Bookkeeping and is paid nothing for it: no fee, no commission, no revenue share. There's also nothing extra in it for you for coming through us, so this is a recommendation rather than an offer. A contractor who wants the CFO layer without moving the bookkeeping, or who has outgrown a general bookkeeper who has never seen a WIP schedule.
The useful half of any referral is knowing when it's the wrong answer, so that list is on this page at the same weight as the right one. Read both before you call anybody.
Bookkeeping for small businesses and construction contractors, working in QuickBooks Online and ControlQore
Serves clients locally and remotely
SERVES: SMALL BUSINESSES AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTORS.
HOW THIS ONE DIFFERS
IT RUNS BOTH DIRECTIONS.
This is the one referral that runs both directions. DeFran keeps the books; SPM builds the job costing structure and runs the CFO layer on top. A contractor can come in from either side. It's still a referral with nothing paid in either direction.
WHEN IT FITS
THE CASE FOR IT.
You want your books kept by somebody who has seen a construction chart of accounts before
You're on Core, where your bookkeeper keeps doing the books, and the bookkeeper you have isn't one
You're already in ControlQore and want day to day bookkeeping done inside it
WHEN IT DOES NOT
THE CASE AGAINST IT.
Nobody publishes this part, which is the reason it's worth reading. A vendor that fixes the wrong problem costs you the fee and the time, and leaves the real problem where it was.
You want the whole thing off your desk, in which case Executive covers the bookkeeping and the controllership and there's no second vendor to manage
You need payroll, which neither firm does
WHAT WE CAN VERIFY
FACTS, WITH SOURCES.
Read from DeFran Bookkeeping's own material and from independent sources on 10 August 2026. Anything that couldn't be established is absent from this page rather than softened into a claim.
Works in ControlQore, which is the same job costing and WIP platform SPM sets up and operates
Their own site describes partnering with Sulphur Prairie Management for job costing structure, WIP reporting and monthly CFO strategy for commercial contractors
No. No fee, no commission, no revenue share, nothing. Josh refers contractors to DeFran Bookkeeping because the problem they solve is a real one and SPM doesn't solve it, and that's the whole of the arrangement. There's also nothing extra in it for you: a contractor who calls them direct gets the same terms as one Josh sends, so treat this page as a recommendation rather than an offer.
A bookkeeping firm that keeps contractor books in QuickBooks Online and ControlQore. A contractor who wants the CFO layer without moving the bookkeeping, or who has outgrown a general bookkeeper who has never seen a WIP schedule.
DeFran Bookkeeping doesn't publish pricing, so this page doesn't quote any. Ask them directly, and ask what the all-in cost is rather than the headline number. Anybody quoting you a specific DeFran Bookkeeping rate they read on a website is quoting something that was never published.
You want the whole thing off your desk, in which case Executive covers the bookkeeping and the controllership and there's no second vendor to manage You need payroll, which neither firm does
It's who Josh sends people to, and it's not an exclusive arrangement in either direction. Look at the alternatives, and use the fits and does-not-fit lists on this page as the questions to ask whoever you talk to. A referral is a starting point rather than a decision.
Former commercial project manager and master electrician: 150+ projects worth $2.1B combined, from $50,000 to $300M. Now fractional CFO to commercial subcontractors.
Twenty minutes on your numbers. Sometimes the answer is a vendor and sometimes it's that the money is already in the business and nobody can see it. Josh will tell you which.
You don't hire a CFO because it's safe, you do it because the real risk isn't having one.
