PAVING: PLANT AVAILABILITY AND THE PAVING WINDOW

Paving contractors at $1M to $5M net 5.5 percent on average, rising to 8 percent by $25M to $50M; the CFOS target at $1M to $5M is 10 percent. The gap concentrates in unhedged asphalt exposure on private work, ticket-to-yield leakage, and a fleet carried through the off-season. Every net profit figure here is stated before taxes, the same basis CFMA reports on, so the two are directly comparable.

Check the ticket-to-yield spread: you buy by the ton and sell by the square yard at a depth, and waste, over-depth, and handwork live in between. A quarter inch of extra depth across a large lot is tons of silent donation; reconcile plant tickets to placed quantity on every job.

Yes, as its own division. Crack seal, striping, and sealcoating run different crews, margins, and sales cycles, and they're the recurring counterweight to a seasonal paving calendar. Blended books hide whether the annuity is funding the iron or the iron is starving the annuity.

Three tiers, and which one you are in depends on how much of the work you want off your desk. Core is where you stop guessing: job costing built against the way you estimate, a 13 week cash forecast, monthly WIP, and a monthly meeting that ends in decisions, while your bookkeeper keeps doing the books. Executive is where you stop touching the books, because we run the bookkeeping and the controllership as well. Strategic is where every job shows its margin while it is still running, because the job costing and WIP platform is set up and managed for you. No payroll. No scope gaps.

Sixty days. We migrate your books back to the start of your last taxable year, set up ControlQore, and build your job costing structure from scratch. Fully operational in two months.