Accounting · Industries

Accounting built around how your industry actually runs.

Every industry breaks its books in a different place — job costing, trust accounts, netted payouts, prime cost. TechBrot configures your books around the number that actually runs your business, in a fixed-fee scope.

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§ 01 · In brief

Industry-specific accounting, summarized.

§ In brief

Industry-specific accounting builds the books around the number that runs a particular business: netted payouts and sales-tax nexus in e-commerce, job costing and WIP in construction, client trust accounts for law firms, prime cost for restaurants. TechBrot sets it up in your own QuickBooks file at a fixed fee; monthly bookkeeping runs $500–$2,500+/mo.

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§ 02 · Industry expertise

Where we go deep.

Six industries with dedicated expertise pages — each built around the number that actually runs that business.

§ 03 · Why it matters

Generic bookkeeping misses the number that runs your business.

Generic bookkeeping treats every business the same: categorize, reconcile, produce a P&L. That’s fine until you need to know the thing your industry actually turns on — job profitability on a build, prime cost on a Friday night, collection rate against what you billed, whether trust funds reconcile to the penny. Those numbers don’t appear by accident; the books have to be built to surface them.

TechBrot configures QuickBooks and your monthly process around how your industry operates, so the financials answer the questions you actually ask — and so the work is ready the moment you want advisory on top of it. As automation commoditizes routine data entry, that industry judgment is exactly where the value now lives.

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§ 04 · More industries

We work across these too.

The same operating standard and QuickBooks ProAdvisor delivery, applied to the way each of these runs.

Additional industries TechBrot serves, the number that runs each one, and its industry page.
Industry What the books turn on Industry page
Cannabis · hemp · CBD IRC 280E and the COGS boundary Cannabis & hemp
Professional services Utilization & project margin Professional services
SaaS & software MRR, deferred revenue & churn SaaS
Nonprofit Fund & grant restrictions Nonprofit
Dental Production vs collection Dental
Manufacturing Inventory & cost of goods Manufacturing
Trucking & logistics Cost per mile & settlements Trucking
Retail Margin, shrink & sales tax Retail
Agencies Billable hours & pass-throughs Agency
Franchise Royalties & multi-unit rollups Franchise
Home services Job profitability & crews Home services
Auto repair Parts, labor & RO margin Auto repair
Fitness & wellness Memberships & deferred revenue Fitness
Landscaping Crew & equipment job costing Landscaping
Property management Trust/deposit ledgers & owner statements Property management
Short-term rentals Per-listing P&L & platform payouts Short-term rentals
Rental property Per-property P&L, deposits & owner equity Rental property
Amazon sellers Settlement reconciliation & FBA COGS Amazon sellers
Shopify sellers Payout reconciliation & sales tax Shopify sellers
Law firm trust / IOLTA Three-way trust reconciliation Law firm trust accounting
Specialty trades Per-ticket margin & service agreements Specialty trades
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§ 06 · FAQ

Industry accounting questions.

What industries does TechBrot serve?

TechBrot serves U.S. small and mid-sized businesses across many industries, with dedicated expertise pages for e-commerce, construction, real estate, legal, restaurants, and healthcare, plus professional services, SaaS, nonprofits, dental, manufacturing, trucking, retail, and more. The same operating standard and QuickBooks ProAdvisor delivery applies across all of them.

Do you serve industries not listed here?

Yes. The underlying work — accurate books, correct QuickBooks setup, reconciliation, payroll, sales tax, and advisory — applies to nearly any business. If your industry isn’t listed, a 30-minute discovery call maps your specific accounting needs and how we’d handle them.

What does industry-specific accounting cost?

Pricing depends on your industry, transaction volume, complexity, and the services in scope, and is always quoted as a fixed monthly fee against a written scope with no hourly billing. Monthly bookkeeping typically ranges from $500–$2,500+ per month with complexity adjustments.

My industry books are already a mess. Where do we start?

With a cleanup. We reclassify what’s mis-booked, rebuild the industry-specific structure your books need, and reconcile to a known-good baseline — then transition into accurate monthly bookkeeping. Starting mid-mess is fine: it’s how the industry-specific structure gets built in correctly the first time.

Can you handle inventory, job costing, or multi-entity books for my industry?

Yes — those are exactly the mechanics generic bookkeeping tends to get wrong. We configure QuickBooks for inventory and COGS, job and project costing, class and location tracking, and multi-entity or multi-location rollups, matched to how your industry actually runs. If the existing setup needs heavier structure, we build it during onboarding or a cleanup.

How quickly can you get my industry books up to date?

It depends on how far behind and how complex the file is: a bookkeeping cleanup runs two to eight weeks and a catch-up four to twelve, set in the written scope before you move into accurate monthly bookkeeping. We scope the timeline in writing before starting, and then book a free 30-minute discovery call and we’ll estimate yours. Cleanups are fixed-fee against a written scope, never hourly.

Do you work in our existing operational platform, or do we have to switch?

We work in the platform you already run. The goal is to connect your existing field-service, POS, e-commerce, or membership system to QuickBooks cleanly — not to make you re-platform. The operational system can stay exactly as it is, and the accounting work is building and maintaining the bridge so the numbers reconcile. We’ll flag a platform change only when the existing tool genuinely can’t produce reconcilable data — and even then it’s a recommendation with the trade-offs laid out, never a requirement to start. The integration discipline is the same across platforms: map the data once, reconcile totals every month, and keep QuickBooks as the auditable system of record. If your industry runs on a platform we haven’t named, the discovery call confirms whether it integrates the way we need it to.

Where do the books end and the CPA begin?

TechBrot performs QuickBooks and bookkeeping work — setup, cleanup, monthly close, reconciliation, industry-specific configuration, KPI reporting, and advisory — and produces the financial statements and supporting detail your tax preparer files from. TechBrot does not prepare or file tax returns; we work with your CPA or EA. We also don’t do IRS representation, audit, or assurance. That boundary is deliberate and it works in your favor: clean, industry-correct books make your CPA’s job faster and your return more accurate, and we coordinate directly with them on anything that touches the line — entity structure, multi-state nexus, depreciation methods.

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Tell us where the books stand. We’ll tell you which engagement fits, if any.

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What happens after you call
  1. 01We talk for up to 30 minutes.You tell us where the books stand; we ask the questions that decide the scope. No charge.
  2. 02We look at the file if we need to.You add us as an accountant user in your own QuickBooks file, and you can remove us at any time. If the file cannot be priced without working inside it, we say so and propose the paid diagnostic, whose fee is credited in full against the cleanup.
  3. 03You get a fixed fee in writing.What we will fix, what you will receive and one fixed fee. Nothing starts until you accept it.
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