Bookkeeping for Dayton manufacturers, trades, and service pros.

Dayton's economic DNA is industrial. Wright-Patterson Air Force Base remains the single biggest employer in the region, feeding a dense ecosystem of aerospace and defense suppliers, precision manufacturers, and mechanical contractors across Montgomery and Greene counties. Downtown Dayton's revival and the growth of Kettering, Beavercreek, Centerville, and Miamisburg have added a steady layer of residential services — HVAC, roofing, landscaping, cleaning, remodeling — on top of the traditional industrial trades. We work with both sides: shop owners with CNC machines and work orders, and home-services owners with trucks and service calls.

What unifies our Dayton clients is a need for better job and work-order margin visibility. For the manufacturing and industrial-trades side, that means work-order costing, inventory accuracy, and clean labor burden math so that bids reflect real cost — not a gut estimate inherited from 2019. For the residential-services side, it's per-job P&L, estimate-vs.-actual on bigger replacements and remodels, and category-level margin analysis across maintenance, install, and service call revenue. In both cases, we rebuild the chart of accounts around how you actually run the business, deliver a clean monthly close on a consistent rhythm, and sit down once a month to talk about what the numbers mean for the next quarter.

Dayton's tax picture includes city income tax (2.5% currently), Ohio CAT for higher-revenue operations, and sales/use tax obligations that get complex for manufacturers dealing with exempt sales, consumer use tax on equipment purchases, and multi-state supply chains. We handle all of that inside the monthly rhythm, and coordinate with your CPA at year-end so nothing slips.