Construction
At a glance
We understand your need to enhance performance, improve financial growth, reduce costs and build connections to grow your construction business.
Our construction accountants provide a proactive approach to deliver effective construction advisory services, tax and assurance to your complex finance and operation needs. You can depend on Baker Tilly to identify and capitalize on opportunities and provide solutions related to structuring, financing alternatives, and balance sheet planning.
With an extensive team of construction accountants, we have a wealth of experience working with general contractors, heavy highway contractors, specialty contractors, and architecture and engineering firms. Our experience goes beyond assurance, tax and construction advisory services. As you work to build your business, you can rely on the straightforward advice from our construction accountants to resolve disputes, plan for ownership transition and leadership succession, execute acquisitions and divestitures, and improve internal controls.
Industry recognition
Construction trade associations and labor unions rely on Baker Tilly’s construction accountants to advise them on their support of the industry through strategic planning, workforce development and more.
Our construction accountants are active participants in their field and the construction industry. In addition to national and state accounting memberships, we are also involved with the following associations:
- American Road and Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA)
- The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
- Associated Builders and Contractors, Inc. (ABC)
- Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA)
- National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)
- National Association of Women in Construction (NAWIC)
Our solutions
Collaboration is an important standard at Baker Tilly. Working with our clients, we establish a mutually beneficial relationship to identify needs, recognize opportunities and find innovative ways to meet your short- and long-term goals through a wide array of services.
- Audits, reviews and compilations of financial statements
- Federal, state and local tax
- Tax credits and incentives
- Tax planning and compliance
- Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance
- Benchmarking
- Business process improvement
- ESG and sustainability
- Contract compliance risk assessment
- Corporate renewal and turnaround services
- Bankruptcy and restructuring
- Digital strategy and enterprise solutions
- Cybersecurity and IT risk
- Employee benefit plan audit
- Forensic, valuation and litigation services
- Government contract advisory services
- Internal audit and internal controls
- Leadership assessment and competency modeling
- Mergers and acquisitions and due diligence
- Ownership transition and management succession planning
- Talent recruitment, retention and management
They are more than consultants. The Baker Tilly team raised the quality of our internal audit and risk management functions and helped us through the change management required to ensure success. We are extremely pleased with their work.Craig Campbell, Chief Administrative and Risk Officer, WPS Health Solutions, Wisconsin Physicians Service Insurance Corp.
Construction survey and reports
Baker Tilly works with construction organizations and associations across the industry to collect data on regional and nationwide trends. The goal? To bring you valuable data and analysis that helps benchmark your company against competition — so you can make informed decisions about everything from salaries to inventory. To learn more, visit our construction survey and reports page.
2025 Construction salary report
Measure your employee compensation and benefits against industry peers with our annual construction salary report.
2025 Construction financial analysis report
Discover current trends, analyses and tips to mitigate risk and stay competitive in a shifting business environment.
Featured insights
How AI can be used in construction bidding, negotiation
Baker Tilly tells CFO Dive how AI and predictive analytics help contractors create smarter bids, manage risks and protect profitability.
CMMC assessment guide: Getting started and what to expect
Successfully prepare for a CMMC assessment with this guide from Baker Tilly.
Energy Community Mapping Tool
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) of 2022 has created tax credit opportunities for clean energy projects sited within an energy community in the U.S.
Better together
Baker Tilly expands construction capabilities with Sockeye, a top Sage Intacct partner
Sockeye, a top Sage Intacct partner recognized for its deep industry expertise and technology-enabled finance, accounting and project management solutions has joined Baker Tilly. The acquisition significantly enhances Baker Tilly’s Sage Intacct capabilities and accelerates its strategic focus on the construction sector.
As chief financial officer, I need a top notch firm that understands the financials from a global perspective. I also need a team that is accessible, reliable, and who knows how to lead through acquisitions. At Baker Tilly, they are committed to our success.Rod Petschauer, CFO, Atwell, LLC
Baker Tilly is named a 2025 top construction accounting firm
Featured insights
Featured services
ASC 606 Revenue Recognition
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Baker Tilly Advantage
Tax, accounting, HR and payroll back-office outsourcing for growing organizations
Digital Solutions
Foster the future through a continuous culture of innovation.
Complex Disputes & Litigation
When the numbers don’t add up, we cut through the clutter to deliver independent financial analysis that sets the record straight.
Corporate Renewal & Turnaround Services
Baker Tilly works with companies to design and execute a comprehensive turnaround plan to help mitigate risk and improve operations during an economic downturn.
Cybersecurity
We provide cybersecurity services to maximize the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your critical information assets and reduce cyber risk.
Digital Strategy
Digital transformation is so much more than just implementing the latest technology. See your big picture, understand your “why” and chart a course for success.
Due Diligence
Whether it is for an acquisition, sale or refinancing, Baker Tilly provides due diligence services tailored to meet your specific needs.
Employee Benefit Plan Audit
We help meet your employee benefit plan’s annual audit and filing requirements, and work to protect the plan’s integrity.
Enterprise Systems
A strong, integrated enterprise solution can help strengthen your company’s core processes, improve performance and help you achieve your business goals.
ESG & Sustainability
Leading in specialties including compliance, reporting, risk, controls, assurance, decarbonization strategy development and technology consulting, we provide comprehensive environmental, social and governance (ESG) and sustainability advisory that spans solutions for any company, function or challenge.
Federal Tax
Baker Tilly offers specialized federal tax management services including compliance and planning expertise to help businesses optimize value while minimizing their tax burden.
Financial Statement Audit
Baker Tilly marries technology with the extensive experience to provide clients with an innovative financial statement audit service.
Forensic Accounting
When critical situations arise, organizations count on Baker Tilly to deliver accurate and reliable financial analysis to help forge a path forward.
Human Capital
Baker Tilly’s human capital consulting teams help organizations leverage the most updated approaches and latest technologies to reshape the employer/employee relationship, driving success and business returns.
Inflation Reduction Act Tax Credit Solutions
The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes the largest clean energy incentive effort in U.S. history. Find out how your organization can leverage IRA energy tax credits to save as much as 50% or more on qualifying project costs.
Internal Audit
Leverage industry-specialized internal audit services for organizational success.
Lease Accounting (ASC 842 and GASB 87)
Are you ready to implement ASC 842 or GASB 87, one of the new lease accounting standards? With new practical expedients, organizations should re-evaluate their implementation plan. No plan in place? Our lease accounting specialists can help.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Middle market business owners, investors, and corporations rely on our sell-side, buy-side, mergers and acquisitions advisory, and financing solutions to execute their growth strategy.
Ownership Transition & Exit Strategies
Providing business owners with a clear, feasible execution road map for succession
Prevailing Wage & Apprenticeship Bonus Credit Solutions
Get started with our end-to-end prevailing wage and apprenticeship compliance solution to maximize your Inflation Reduction Act tax credits.
Project Finance
We take a comprehensive view of available federal, state and local tax credit and incentive programs and loan programs when developing a project’s capital stack.
Research & Development Credits
Baker Tilly's research and development tax credit professionals can help you find R&D credits in areas you may not have thought qualify.
Real Estate Advisory Services
Baker Tilly’s real estate advisory services are designed to help leaders across various industries and communities with their ever-changing real estate and infrastructure needs.
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance
Strengthening controls. Enhancing confidence. Ensuring compliance.
State & Local Tax
Our state and local tax services professionals offer specialized expertise to help businesses and individuals understand increasingly complex state and local tax rules.
Talent Management
Having a culture of high performance, development opportunities and a full view of your talent plays a significant role in achieving both organizational and employee goals.
Our clients
Ceroni Piping Company has greatly benefited from Baker Tilly’s guidance on tax structures and ideas regarding succession planning, as well as the industry-specific training seminars they provide. It’s the depth and breadth of their services as well as their industry-specific knowledge and experience that makes Baker Tilly the complete package. They have helped our business immensely thanks to the depth of their team. To sum it up, Baker Tilly truly stands behind their work.Steve A. Ceroni, President/CEO, Ceroni Piping
Maximizing our clients' value
Industry leader
Baker Tilly is growing to serve you better
Baker Tilly continues to invest in coast-to-coast and global advisory, tax and assurance capabilities to help enhance and protect our clients' value.
Baker Tilly to acquire Berkowitz Pollack Brant, strengthening Southeast presence and East Coast reach
Advisory, tax and assurance firm Baker Tilly plans to acquire Berkowitz Pollack Brant Advisors + CPAs (Berkowitz Pollack Brant), one of Florida’s largest and most respected accounting and advisory firms.
Baker Tilly and Moss Adams to Combine to Create an Industry-Defining Advisory and Accounting Firm in a Strategic Merger Backed by Hellman & Friedman
Expanded industry specialization, geographic reach and private equity investment position the firm for long-term growth and innovation.
Baker Tilly to expand Southeast presence with addition of KraftCPAs
Leading advisory, tax and assurance firm Baker Tilly announces its intent to acquire KraftCPAs PLLC (KraftCPAs), a Nashville-based accounting and advisory firm with a decades-long track record of service and specialization across key industries.
Baker Tilly to acquire Sockeye to expand Sage Intacct capabilities, construction industry focus
Leading advisory, tax and assurance firm Baker Tilly announces its intent to acquire Sockeye, a top Sage Intacct partner recognized for its deep industry expertise and technology-enabled finance, accounting and project management solutions.