Industries We Serve: Outsourced Finance Office for Construction, EPC, Solar, Renewables & Carbon Credits

TechEdge Accounting runs outsourced finance functions across five industries where most generalist accountants don't have the technical depth: construction, EPC contracting, solar installation, renewables development, and carbon-credit accounting. Same playbook — Finance Manager, Financial Controller, or Head of Finance tier engagements with monthly close, job-cost reporting, 13-week cash forecasting, and bank-facility-grade financial reporting. Different domain knowledge per industry. Here is what we do in each.

Construction & Civil Contracting

We work with builders, civil contractors and head contractors on jobs from $2M to $50M+ project value. The accounting playbook is the same regardless of size: progress claim revenue recognition at expected payment dates not invoice dates, retentions tracked as a separate asset bucket against AASB 15 timing, dayworks and variations forecast at approved value not bid value, and 13-week cash forecasts that separate confirmed receipts from probable variations. Job-cost reporting against the active project register is run monthly, not quarterly. Bank facility narratives are written in the language banks expect: trailing-12-month margin trend, working-capital coverage, single-contract concentration risk modelling.

EPC Contractors (Switchboards, HV/LV, Commercial Solar)

Mid-tier EPC engagement work is where unbilled-variations leakage is most common. We see it in nearly every new EPC engagement past three concurrent projects: approved variations sitting in the gap between 'operations marked complete' and 'finance sent the invoice.' On the engagements we run, job-cost reporting is installed in Month 1 (not Month 6) so the leakage is identified and recovered while it's still fresh. The work also covers retention tracking against AASB 15 timing, daywork accruals, and forecast modelling for working-capital headroom on multi-quarter projects.

Solar Installation & Rooftop Generation

Commercial and residential solar installers run a more complex P&L than they often realise: install revenue, STC monetisation, ACCU income from rooftop abatement methodologies, ongoing O&M revenue, and warranty-claim accruals. Each has different recognition timing under AASB 15 and AASB 138, different GST treatment, and different cash-conversion profiles. We separate the streams in the chart of accounts so monthly close reflects what each line of the business is actually doing — and so STC and ACCU income is recognised at the right point, not when paid.

Renewables Developers (Utility-Scale Wind, Solar, BESS)

Renewables developers operate on long project timelines with non-trivial capital structure. The finance function has to support capex tracking against project stages, LGC generation accounting against the REC Registry, Safeguard Mechanism compliance reporting where baselines apply, and capital-raise-grade financial reporting for equity and debt rounds. Head of Finance tier engagements typically lead this work — board-level financial strategy, bank facility narrative, and capital structure modelling are the core deliverables.

Carbon-Credit Accounting (ACCU, STC, LGC, Safeguard Mechanism)

Most CPA practices stay well clear of carbon-credit accounting because the standards are technical, the GST and tax positions are contested, and the registry workflow takes time to understand. We don't. ACCU recognition under AASB 138, ANREU registry reconciliation as a monthly process, GST-free treatment under Subdivision 38-N and TR 2015/2, ordinary-income tax treatment (not capital), and Safeguard Mechanism compliance for facilities above the 100,000 tCO2-e threshold. See our deeper guide: 'ACCU & Carbon Credit Accounting in Australia.'

How we engage

Three tier engagements cover all five industries: Finance Manager for small operators wanting monthly close and BAS run by a real finance function, Financial Controller for material-volume operators needing job-cost reporting and bank-facility-grade financials, and Head of Finance for boards and renewables developers needing strategic-finance leadership through capital raises and growth phases. CPA-led from Hawthorn VIC, Australia-wide. Book a 30-minute discovery call to scope.