Construction General Ledger Accounting Software

The FOUNDATION® General Ledger Accounting Module enables contractors to perform daily transactions and period-end procedures easily, plus report from a robust and scalable database.

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General Ledger Accounting Features

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Construction Company Financials — Change Orders and WIP Reports

Instantly prepare professional income statements, balance sheets and cash flow reports with construction ledger software to show the health of your construction business for any point in time — as well as:

View and post over/under billing (WIP) and overhead.
Run standard and comparative trial balances.
Set account budgets for any length of time, and report for any period.

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Daily and Period Construction Bookkeeping

Manage your daily, monthly, quarterly and yearly construction financials with construction accounting software designed to reduce data entry and time spent on routine processes.

Reconcile bank accounts simply by selecting each of your cleared transactions.
Schedule recurring journal entries, or easily enter one-time adjusting entries.
Close out year-end in just a few-steps when you’re ready — and reverse if you need to.

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Secure Audit Trails of Ledger Activity

Count on a steel-trap database to record every transaction in the life of your construction ledger — even reversals. FOUNDATION® provides you with a detailed and reliable audit trail that helps protect your business against bookkeeping mysteries and enables you to see general ledger activity for any timeframe.

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Other Modules to Help You Work

Improve your workflow with America’s #1 Construction Accounting Software’s modules so that your team can
work at maximum efficiency and let you focus on what is important.

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Job Costing

Enjoy complete tie-out between your job costing and construction financial software. Post a single transaction to hit both your job cost reporting and your general ledger simultaneously, without reentry.

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DataGenie™ Construction Report Designer

Simply drag and drop rows and columns to modify or create custom construction financial reports from your company’s general ledger.

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Executive Dashboard

Find quick, high-level overviews of your company and project financials with easy-to-read graphs and charts. Then, instantly drill down for increasing detail — all the way to individual transactions and invoice images.

Business Financials at a Glance

The accounting side of the software, A/R, A/P and G/L are just as powerful as the job cost side.

Bill Breyton – CEO
AMS Electric

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People Also Ask

FOUNDATION accounting software offers a General Ledger Module loaded with reporting tools for construction projects.

Users can drag and drop rows from their general ledger to create custom construction financial reports.

Some of the reports and tools FOUNDATION users can access include:

Work-in-progress (WIP) reports
Balance sheets
Cash flow statements
Income statements

With FOUNDATION, contractors can automate general ledger processes to save time while receiving accurate financial data they can use to more effectively manage their operations.

Yes, FOUNDATION seamlessly integrates with its sister product — the project management tool ProjectHQ® — to help its users improve their resource allocation on their construction projects.

By pairing these best-of-breed products, users can:

Sync cost codes, cost classes and more directly from FOUNDATION into ProjectHQ
Transfer details from change orders, purchase orders and subcontractors from ProjectHQ to FOUNDATION
Easily update project budgets and contracts in ProjectHQ without logging into FOUNDATION

The integration between FOUNDATION and ProjectHQ gives users unique insights related to inventory, cash, equity, assets and liabilities throughout their projects so they can maximize productivity and profitability.

Yes, cloud-based general ledger software can help your construction business in a few ways:

Users can view the most up to date data at any time
All reporting is done using information gathered in real-time
With cloud functionalities, data is accessible anywhere on any device

Contractors can simplify bookkeeping with software and automate general ledger processes when they choose FOUNDATION.

FOUNDATION accounting software has several features for managing subcontractor payments, including:

Importing subcontracts to easily track costs
Creating and approving change orders based on subcontracts
Saving, storing and easily finding key subcontract information with an organized, searchable database
Monitoring committed expenses at any level of detail to help you make the right decisions fast

With FOUNDATION’s general ledger software, contractors can effectively manage their subcontractor payments and other accounts receivable items on their balance sheet. This gives contractors more accurate cash flow statements.

Foundation Software Case Studies

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See What Foundation Software can do for You!

Get an overview of your financial accounts. Schedule a personalized demo today and see how our General Ledger Module lets you perform daily transactions and track financial data.

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