Accounting Built for How Your Industry Actually Works
Generic bookkeepers don’t understand job costing, progress billing, field software feeds, or multi-property depreciation. Elemental delivers proactive bookkeeping, tax planning, and compliance tailored to Texas small businesses and trades.
Texas Fiduciary Diagnostics
AIA G702 progress billing matched to bank draws; materials tracked down to individual cost codes.
Truck inventory, technician commission splits, and invoice batching pushed automatically to QBO.
Cost segregation integration, multi-property LLC distributions, and zero commingling audits.
Reasonable compensation analysis, R&D credit logs, and automated monthly recurring billing.
The Cost of “One-Size-Fits-All” Bookkeeping
Texas state tax laws, specific franchise thresholds, and operational software integration cannot be managed with standard default charts of accounts.
The Annual Tax Scramble
Traditional bookkeepers dump twelve months of uncategorized bank feeds into generic “Ask My Accountant” buckets in March, leaving you blind to your actual margins during peak operating season.
Monthly closed books by the 10th business day, synced with your trade field software and reconciled against Texas sales tax liabilities.
Job Margin Blindness
Materials, 1099 subcontractors, and direct equipment rentals get lumped into general overhead instead of tied directly to individual work orders, project bids, or property addresses.
Strict job-costed accounting that isolates gross profit per project, per tech, or per rental unit before invoices clear.
Texas Compliance Traps
Overpaying Texas Franchise Tax due to poor Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) election or getting hit with state Comptroller penalties for improper resale certificate tracking.
Deep familiarity with the Texas Comptroller’s 05-158 PIR reporting, franchise tax deduction formulas, and local county property renditions.
Engineered for Your Operational Realities
Click into any vertical to examine our tailored chart of accounts, software pairings, and specific monthly deliverables.
Construction & General Contractors
Eliminate project margin leakage. We synchronize your bids, subcontracts, materials purchasing, and bank draws to prevent cash crunches before completion.
Trade & Field Services
HVAC technicians, electricians, plumbers, and roofers. We connect your daily dispatch software directly to your books so you track true truck profitability.
Professional & B2B Services
Marketing agencies, IT managed services (MSPs), law firms, and consulting practices. Structure healthy owner cash flow and maximize S-Corp tax velocity.
Recurring Retainer Tracking • S-Corp Reasonable Salary Calibration • 0% Partner Commingling Proof.
Real Estate & Rental Portfolios
Residential landlords, commercial property syndications, and STR hosts across Texas. Protect profits through accurate multi-entity asset allocation.
Schedule E Segregation • Multi-Entity Series LLC Ledgers • 1031 Exchange Escrow Prep • Stessa / AppFolio Sync.
Startups & Tech Ventures
High-growth Texas software and hardware ventures. We provide investor-ready clean books, monthly burn rate oversight, and R&D payroll tax credits.
Stripe / ChartMogul Revenue Recognition • Section 41 R&D Credit Documentation • Dual-Class Equity Logs.
Industry Software We Command & Reconcile Daily
You never have to switch software. Elemental plugs directly into your operational core, reconciling invoices, merchant payouts, and field data without double data entry.
“We discovered three jobs were operating at a -14% loss. Elemental caught it before our previous CPA even opened our file.”
“Our previous local bookkeeper just matched bank deposits once a month and sent an estimate of what we owed in taxes every April. Elemental stepped in, integrated our ServiceTitan invoices directly into QuickBooks Online, and broke down our costs by technician and job tier. Within 90 days, we reclaimed $44,000 in untracked subcontractor change orders and lowered our Texas franchise tax liability through proper COGS itemization.”
How Industry Accounting Works at Elemental
Our pricing is transparent and tied to monthly transaction volume, job-costing complexity, and software integration requirements. While a professional agency might require standard monthly reconciliation and payroll management, a general contractor requires AIA progress billings, subcontractor lien release tracking, and CSI phase allocations. We provide an exact, flat-rate monthly quote during your discovery call—no surprise hourly billing.
Absolutely not. We build financial systems around your field operations, not the other way around. Whether your crews use ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Jobber, Procore, or Buildertrend, our team verifies and calibrates the bi-directional API connection to QuickBooks Online to ensure field sales map to your general ledger seamlessly.
Texas is unique: while there is no personal state income tax, the Texas Franchise Tax applies to entities with revenues exceeding the state threshold. We ensure that trades and retail operators elect the optimal Cost of Goods Sold (COGS) or compensation deductions under Chapter 171 of the Texas Tax Code, and we prepare and file both the Annual Franchise Report and Public Information Report (PIR).
We handle 100% of the transition heavy lifting. Our team conducts an initial Diagnostic Ledger Audit, requests read-only historical files from your past accountant or pulls them directly from your software, reconciles any discrepancy between prior tax filings and bank registers, and takes over your payroll and accounts without interrupting your daily customer invoicing.
Ready for Bookkeeping That Actually Understands Your Trade?
Get a complimentary 15-Minute Industry Discovery Call. We’ll review your current software stack, inspect your chart of accounts, and outline immediate tax deductions unique to Texas operators.