Bookkeeping and financials for a solar company
Solar bookkeeping breaks where ordinary trade bookkeeping holds, and the reason is timing. Money arrives at signature, at install and at turn-on, sometimes with a lender in the middle. Costs land on a different schedule entirely, and lender funding lands on a third. The bank balance can look strong while three jobs are quietly underwater.
The specific traps are deposits recorded as revenue while they are still a liability, dealer fees on financed deals booked as a discount instead of a cost of sale, equipment bought ahead for a job that slipped a quarter, and subcontracted electrical or roofing work that never gets tied back to the job it belonged to.
Job costing per install is the fix. Panels, inverter, racking, labor hours, permit, interconnection, crane and the finance fee, all set against contract value. Do that for ninety days and the jobs you should stop selling identify themselves without an argument.