Together we’ll create opportunities
Contractors face extremely complex challenges. Government spending is uncertain. Business relationships and international ownership can be difficult to navigate. Technology continues to evolve rapidly, both in your office and on the worksite. When you recognize the impact of these changes on your business, you can position your business to create opportunities in the future.
We’re committed to addressing what matters most to you:
- Obtaining adequate financing, bonding capacity, and cash flow
- Relevant, timely, and accurate management reporting
- Understanding changes in tax regulations and their potential impact on planning strategies
- Monitoring profitability and risks in a changing market
- Planning for management and ownership succession
- Pursuing renewable energy opportunities
With decades of experience in the construction industry, we can assist a variety of construction clients:
- Architecture and engineering firms
- Civil contractors
- Clean technology industry
- Commercial and residential real estate developers and managers
- Concrete and masonry contractors
- Demolition contractors
- Earthwork, paving, and utility contractors
- General commercial building contractors
- Government contractors
- Heavy highway and contractors
- Homebuilders
- Specialty trade contractors
Experience our client-focused approach
You get more than numbers and reports from CLA — you develop a personal connection with our people. Our 350 construction professionals provide audit, tax, and consulting services to more than 5,250 construction clients nationwide. We serve commercial and residential real estate developers and managers, as well as a large number of manufacturers and distributors that provide materials to the building trades.
We also have strong relationships with bonding agents and banks that have a significant presence in the construction field. We know and work with your suppliers, your subs, and your clients — just about everyone you do business with. Ultimately, we help owners and those in management positions plan for long-term financial success, identify information needed to make good business decisions, and understand how business investments can impact future growth.
Services for contractors and construction companies
Industry-specialized services
- Business planning with executive and key management
- Claims, disputes, and litigation
- Consulting on business structure and tax reporting methods
- Cost verification
- Cybersecurity and systems management
- Evaluation of financing, bonding capacity, and cash flow
- Evaluation of business investments on financial position
- Federal excise tax (FET) review service
- Lean construction and process improvement
- Management processes
- Market trend analysis
- Project cost and overhead analysis
- Risk management, business operations, and technology consulting
- Succession and ownership planning
Assurance and tax services
- Accounting for Income Taxes
- Audit, review, and compilation of financial statements
- Credits and incentives
- Employee benefit plan audit, tax, and consulting
- Evaluation of changes in tax regulations and impact on planning strategies
- Federal tax strategies, credits, and incentives
- Research and development credit
- Energy tax credits and incentives (including the energy efficient building deduction for commercial and government buildings)
- Industry-specific tax methods
- Cost segregation studies
- Fixed asset study
- Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)
- Individual tax
- International, federal, and state and local tax planning and compliance
- Sustainability and ESG
Specialized advisory services
- Affordable Care Act reporting and compliance
- Business management and strategic planning consulting
- Cybersecurity
- Enterprise risk management
- Forensic accounting and fraud investigation
- Forensic auditing
- Fraud risk management
- Internal audit
- M&A advisory and investment banking
- Outsourced accounting for construction
- Transaction support
- Wealth advisory