Construction
Today’s construction environment
presents new challenges—and opportunities
Tailored services to meet your company’s needs
How is your construction or architecture and engineering company handling the pressures on margin, profitability, and cash flows, while adapting to a continuously changing environment? We know operating a construction company or architecture and engineering firm today is very different from ten years ago and will be different ten years from now. Our team of specialized accounting and consulting advisors dedicated to the construction industry offers experience, expertise, and proven leadership to construction and architecture and engineering clients seeking to successfully manage their business.
We focus on going beyond traditional compliance services to provide value added information on systems and controls, key performance indicators and benchmarking, and other operational and ownership issues. We want to make your successful by leveraging our knowledge to maximize the value of your business.
Construction Industry Services
We offer a full range of accounting and consulting services for construction companies, architecture and engineering firms, and related entities all delivered with the highest standards of independence and integrity. Our team is designed to proactively collaborate with you about your long-term financial and strategic goals, and includes the following services:
- Financial statement audits, reviews, and compilations
- Internal controls configuration, implementation, testing, and monitoring
- Overhead audits, Eichleay calculations, and associated analysis
- Outsourced/co-sourced internal audit
- Application of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and FAR/Overhead audits
- Agreed upon procedures
- Due diligence procedures
- Restructuring and reengineering processes and controls
- Preparation of the financial information required by bonding companies and banks
- Income tax preparation and other tax compliance and consulting services
- Multistate tax strategies
- Sales and use tax strategies
- Production deduction analysis
- Cost segregation studies
- Analyzation of corporate structure, including converting from a C-corporation to another form of entity with pass-through tax treatment
- Structuring operation agreements
- Representing clients with federal and state IRS audits
- Accounting and management information system design and implementation, leveraging cloud-based accounting solutions
- Full-service backoffice accounting solutions
- Outsourced accounting staff at all levels—from CFO to accounts payable clerk—depending on the specific needs of your organization
- Key performance indicator development
- Accounting and financial management procedures and practices assessment and configuration
- Business valuation
- Developing financial and business plans
- Litigation support and forensic accounting services
- Cybersecurity
- Managed IT services
- Accounting Software
- IT audit and compliance
- IT network and infrastructure
- Merger and acquisition assistance
- Succession and estate planning
- Strategic planning
- Cash flow forecasting
- Spend analytics and profitability analyses
- Consulting to maximizing your existing bonding and banking relationship
- Structuring a plan to maximize your bonding capacity
- Cash flow analysis, working capital planning, and borrowing needs evaluation
- Assistance in establishing surety bonding and banking relationships
Benefits of Partnering with Dean Dorton
One of the many things we love about our architecture and engineering and construction clients is the strength of our relationships. In the architecture and engineering and construction industries, doing good work, keeping your word, and meeting deadlines are all prized qualities. They are prized qualities with us, too, which may partly explain why serving the industry is such an important part of our business, and why our clients regard us as valued business partners.
Our goal in working with you is to help you achieve your goals. Our ability to listen, to collaborate on solutions, and then apply needed expertise—whether the need is related to accounting, tax issues, or consulting on operational issues—has allowed us to build long-term client relationships. A few of the organizations we are involved with that support of depth and breadth of expertise include:
- Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA)
- Associated General Contractors (AGC)
- National Electrical Contractors Association (NECA)
- The Surety & Fidelity Association of America
- American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC)
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