Bookkeeping for Small Manufacturers Who Need Clearer Numbers
You build quality products. We help you understand what they are truly costing—and what they are truly making.
For custom fabrication shops, machine shops, metalworking companies, and small manufacturers, the difference between a busy month and a profitable month is not always obvious from the bank balance.
Accounting & Computer Concepts helps small manufacturers organize the financial side of the shop: job costs, material purchases, payroll, overhead, invoicing, cash flow, and monthly reporting that helps you make decisions with confidence.
Serving manufacturers in Northeast Indiana and beyond.
A Full Shop Does Not Always Mean a Profitable Shop
When orders are coming in, machines are running, and the team is busy, bookkeeping can easily become something you catch up on later.
But if the numbers are behind—or if costs are not landing in the right places—it becomes difficult to answer the questions that matter most:
Which jobs are actually profitable?
Are material costs and shop labor being recovered in your pricing?
Is payroll rising faster than revenue?
Are you carrying too much money in materials, work in process, or finished goods?
Can you afford the next machine, hire, or expansion?
Why does the profit-and-loss statement look good while cash still feels tight?
Are you quoting work based on real costs or old assumptions?
You should not have to guess at the financial health of the business you work so hard to build.
Your Books Need to Match How Your Shop Works
A manufacturing or fabrication business has more moving pieces than a typical service business. Material purchases, direct labor, subcontracted processes, tooling, equipment, freight, machine repairs, and overhead all affect whether a job makes money.
Good financial reporting helps connect those day-to-day activities to the bigger picture.
Manufacturing costs generally include direct materials, direct labor, and manufacturing overhead. In a custom-job environment, job costing helps connect those costs to an individual customer order or fabrication project instead of treating every dollar as a general expense.
That is especially important for businesses that make custom parts, fabricate assemblies, machine components, build one-off products, or combine production work with metal sales.
We understand the pressures behind the numbers
You may be dealing with:
Material prices that change after a quote has already gone out
Jobs that take more shop time than expected
Overtime, payroll, and labor costs that are difficult to connect to specific work
A backlog that looks strong but does not yet equal cash in the bank
Large customer receivables that slow down working capital
Equipment payments, repairs, tooling, and capital purchases
Inventory or work-in-process balances that are not being reviewed consistently
Financial reports that arrive too late to help you make a decision
Inventory matters because cash is often tied up in raw materials, work in process, and finished goods long before the customer pays. Accurate costing and inventory visibility provide a foundation for reliable margin analysis and cash-flow planning.