This page lists bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve home-service and trades businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, and general contracting in Detroit, MI. Each entry summarizes the firm based on its own website, and notes when a firm serves the area remotely rather than from a local office.
Firms listed: 3.
John A. Sanchez & Company – Detroit, MI #
Website: https://www.jsanchezcpa.com
Phone: 248-747-8351
John A. Sanchez & Company is a CPA firm serving the Metro Detroit area, with its office located at 3201 University Drive in Auburn Hills, Michigan, a suburb within the greater Detroit region. The firm provides accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services to individuals and small businesses, and its website notes that it serves clients across a wide geographic range in addition to the local market.
The firm positions its accounting work as year-round support rather than a once-a-year tax filing relationship. According to its website, business accounting needs extend well beyond tax season, so the firm works with clients throughout the year to manage finances and tax obligations. It describes designing customized packages of accounting services intended to keep finances organized, current, and accurate. Stated services on the accounting side include small business accounting, business incorporations, QuickBooks setup and support, financial planning, outsourced accounting, outsourced CFO services, and business valuation.
On the tax side, the firm offers tax planning and tax preparation. Its materials describe a proactive approach to reducing taxes, looking for ways to control tax exposure throughout the year so that tax season does not bring large surprises. When preparing filings, the firm states it works to apply appropriate deductions, incentives, and credits.
A notable focus for the firm is the construction industry. Its construction accounting page describes experience serving the accounting needs of builders, contractors, and tradesmen. The firm explains that it works to provide a clear view of money moving in and out of accounts so that owners know where their jobs and their business stand financially. It states that its solutions are intended to keep job costing accurate and to make expense management easier, allowing owners to focus on running work sites and finishing projects on time and within budget. The firm also describes forming tax strategies aimed at reducing tax obligations for construction businesses and taking advantage of deductions, incentives, and credits available to the industry.
The construction accounting services listed by the firm include full-service accounting, fixed asset accounting, outsourced bookkeeping services, job estimating and costing, payroll services, month-end closings, cash balance tracking, bank reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, operational reviews, tax planning and compliance, sales tax processing, and QuickBooks support. These services reflect the firm’s stated emphasis on contractors and the broader trades.
Beyond construction, the firm identifies several other industries it serves. Its website lists dental practices, medical practices, law firms, real estate, and veterinarians among its industry specializations. For dental practices, the firm describes accounting solutions for family dentists, orthodontists, and other oral healthcare practitioners. For veterinary practices, it describes accounting and tax services aimed at saving time, preserving resources, and increasing profits. The firm states that its skills allow it to consult on industry-specific issues such as tax compliance, budgeting, and new business advisory.
The firm also offers a secure client portal for sending files, a newsletter providing tax tips and due dates, and an online payment option. It describes offering a free initial consultation to individuals and businesses, and its website provides both a local telephone number and a toll-free number, 866-475-5210.
In terms of how the firm characterizes its own role, its materials state that the type of CPA firm a business chooses can make a difference in success, and that John A. Sanchez & Company aims to be instrumental in helping a business grow and become more profitable rather than simply filing taxes at year-end. The firm describes itself as passionate about working with small business owners and oriented toward helping clients understand their larger financial picture so they can track expenses, monitor cash flow, and identify opportunities to expand. For businesses in Detroit and the surrounding Metro Detroit area, the firm presents itself as an accounting and tax resource with particular depth in serving contractors and construction businesses, while the office itself is based in nearby Auburn Hills.
TTH Bookkeeping Solutions – Detroit, MI #
Website: https://www.tthbookkeepingsolutions.com
Phone: (616) 737-2322
TTH Bookkeeping Solutions LLC is a bookkeeping firm focused on the construction trades and contractors across Michigan. Its listed address is 54 Springview Dr, Battle Creek, Michigan 49037-2856, and the firm describes serving contractors throughout the state, including Detroit. Its website specifically names an electrician in Detroit among the kinds of clients it works with, alongside a roofer in Grand Rapids and a general contractor in Battle Creek, and it lists service across Michigan from Battle Creek to Grand Rapids and Detroit to Lansing. For Detroit-area contractors, the firm presents itself as a financial partner that works remotely and regionally rather than from a Detroit office.
The firm describes its specialty as construction bookkeeping for contractors who want financial clarity. Its stated mission is to deliver clear financial insights that help contractors make profitable decisions, manage cash flow, and understand whether individual jobs were profitable. The firm describes itself as a strategic bookkeeping partner for contractors and frames its work in plain, trade-oriented language rather than corporate or accounting jargon. It indicates it works with roofers, electricians, plumbers, and general contractors, and its packages are described as designed for roofing contractors, landscaping professionals, and construction specialists.
Job costing is a central part of the firm’s offering. According to its website, the firm tracks the full cost of a project, including labor, materials, permit fees, and incidental expenses such as extra trips to the hardware store, in order to show which jobs actually made money. The firm states that the goal is to help contractors bid more accurately and avoid jobs that appear profitable but are not.
QuickBooks setup is another described service. The firm states that it sets up QuickBooks specifically for contractors rather than using a generic small business configuration, with job tracking and expense categories matched to construction purchases such as concrete and rebar, and reporting intended to show real profit margins by job. The firm describes the result as clean books that make sense to contractors.
Payroll services are also offered. The firm describes handling regular payroll, certified payroll for government jobs, union reporting, and varying pay rates that change by project, including different overtime rules depending on the job. It states that this is intended to keep payroll compliant and help clients avoid issues such as a Department of Labor audit. The website lists payroll services starting at $50 per month, and it lists tier options for its services starting at $100 per month. The firm describes itself as a veteran-owned business and offers packages noted as designed for veteran-owned businesses.
The firm reports 15 clients served and refers to years of experience, and it notes a background that includes having delivered to contractors through Lowe’s. It offers a free financial strategy session as an entry point for prospective clients and provides a contact telephone number, an email address of tthbookkeepingsolutionsllc@gmail.com, and a secondary number, (269) 223-9764, listed on its site. The firm states that after a session is reserved it reviews the submission and contacts the prospective client within 24 hours.
In describing the kind of relationship it offers, the firm emphasizes that contractors know construction while it knows contractor financial management, and it frames its role as handling the numbers so owners can focus on building. It returns repeatedly to the idea that an owner should know whether a given job actually turned a profit, and it positions monthly tracking of material costs, subcontractor payments, and project profitability as the means to deliver that information. The firm also stresses cash flow management for construction businesses, describing the aim of keeping owners from scrambling between projects and helping them build a more stable financial footing.
The firm describes itself in promotional terms as Michigan’s trusted bookkeeping partner for contractors, a characterization drawn from its own marketing. In neutral terms, TTH Bookkeeping Solutions is a Michigan bookkeeping firm based in Battle Creek that concentrates on the construction and trades sector, offering job costing, QuickBooks setup tailored to contractors, payroll including certified and union payroll, and cash flow management. For Detroit contractors, plumbers, electricians, roofers, and landscapers, the firm presents construction-focused bookkeeping delivered as a statewide service rather than from a local Detroit location.
WCO Accounting – Detroit, MI #
Website: https://wcoaccounting.com
Phone: 586.203.2113
WCO Accounting is a Michigan-based accounting firm serving Southeast Michigan, the region that includes Detroit. The firm describes itself as locally owned and operated and lists its service areas as Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Rochester Hills, Clinton Township, Shelby Township, Sterling Heights, and Washington, Michigan. It provides accounting, bookkeeping, and advisory services to law firms, medical and dental practices, and small and medium-size businesses, and it also serves clients nationally according to its website.
The firm’s core offering centers on monthly accounting. It states that it provides monthly accounting services so that clients have real-time cash flow information and accurate reporting to support decisions. The firm describes integrating accounting systems, reducing cost leaks, and monitoring profit by case. Among the outcomes it lists for clients are real-time clarity into cash position, accurate monthly financial statements, properly maintained bookkeeping, QuickBooks Online setup and optimization, automation of routine processes, optimized tax strategy, and CFO-level guidance.
QuickBooks Online migration is a stated specialty. The firm describes helping clients migrate from QuickBooks Desktop, Sage, or other accounting applications to QuickBooks Online, and it indicates that a typical migration takes about seven to ten business days while keeping the client operational during the transition. The firm identifies itself as having QuickBooks ProAdvisor and QuickBooks Online expertise.
WCO Accounting also offers fractional controller and CFO services, described as access to high-level CFOs, CPAs, and controllers for a fraction of the cost of full-time employees, available on an hourly or project basis. The firm describes building budgets, creating projections, and overlaying strategy as part of its advisory work. Additional services listed on its website include forensic accounting, payroll processing, and Michigan business tax strategy and advising. On the topic of taxes, the firm states that it does not prepare or file taxes itself; instead, it partners with a client’s CPA or tax preparer and delivers books and strategies intended to reduce the year-end tax burden.
The firm serves several specific industries. For law firms, it describes handling Michigan IOLTA trust accounting, creating separate classes and accounts and reconciling every account monthly, and coordinating with a client’s tax or wealth advisor. For medical and dental practices, it describes cost-per-case visibility and accounting support tailored to healthcare businesses. The firm’s website also lists residential and commercial construction accounting among its industry-specific services, alongside legal and professional services accounting and trust and estate accounting. The firm states that it works with law, medical, and dental practices ranging from $2 million to $40 million in annual revenue.
The firm emphasizes cash flow management, describing analysis of financial statements, tracking of incoming and outgoing cash, and identification of bottlenecks, with the aim of helping owners who worry about meeting payroll. It states that many Michigan small business owners feel stress about cash flow and whether they will be able to make payroll, and it describes providing detailed forecasts and real-time dashboards intended to give them financial clarity. It also stresses timely, accurate financial reports for forward-looking decision making, noting that accounting looks backward while business decisions need to look forward, and proactive tax planning intended to identify missed deductions and structure expenses before year-end.
The firm also describes advisory work that goes beyond bookkeeping, including help with determining which ERP system to use and which third-party applications integrate with a client’s current platform. It frames its accountants and CPAs as acting like a client’s personal financial team, available when answers are needed.
WCO Accounting reports more than 25 years of high and mid-level accounting experience and notes CPA and CMA credentials. Its website includes client testimonials, including one client stating a working relationship of more than 20 years, and references to a team member named Kelly Wellington and to longstanding work with a local chamber of commerce. The firm offers an initial inquiry and a free discovery analysis as entry points. For Detroit-area businesses, particularly law firms, medical and dental practices, and small businesses in the surrounding Southeast Michigan communities, WCO Accounting presents monthly accounting, QuickBooks Online migration, and fractional CFO support as its primary services.