For builders and trade contractors working in Kennesaw and north Cobb. Job costing, WIP schedules, bonding support and tax planning from a licensed CPA firm, in English or Spanish.
Free 30-Minute ConsultationKennesaw grew about 14% between 2020 and 2025, to roughly 38,000 residents by the Census Bureau's estimate, including a jump of nearly 2,900 people in a single year. New homes and new development mean impact fees, new code editions and more jobs open at once. We set up job costing that captures those costs by job, a WIP schedule that ties to your books, and the CPA-prepared statements banks and sureties ask for.
Growth, in a city that had been holding steady. The Census Bureau's estimates show Kennesaw at 33,231 residents at the 2020 base and 37,970 in July 2025. Most of that came at once: the city added about 2,865 people between July 2023 and July 2024 alone.
The city is building too. Kennesaw opened its new 25,000-square-foot Public Safety Facility at 3074 Moon Station Road on September 23, 2026, paid for entirely with SPLOST money. It pulls police operations under one roof, replacing part of City Hall and a former Cobb County fire station from the 1950s.
And the rules changed this year. Kennesaw Building Services lists a new set of mandatory codes effective January 1, 2026, including the 2024 International Residential Code and International Building Code with Georgia amendments and the 2023 National Electrical Code. New code editions change details that end up in your bids, so estimates built from old jobs deserve a second look.
Check before you price it. Kennesaw's Building Services department, at 3080 Moon Station Road, handles permits, inspections, land disturbance permits and impact fees inside the city, and it tells anyone unsure whether a property is inside city limits to call 770-429-4554 or email permits@kennesaw-ga.gov. Cobb County Community Development is listed separately for county matters.
The city also notes that impact fees apply only to new development. On a new house or building that's real money, and it belongs in that job's cost, not buried in overhead. We code permit, impact fee and inspection costs to the job, so your margins by job are honest and your next bid starts from real numbers.
Sureties usually start with the smaller of your working capital and your equity and apply a multiple, often somewhere between 10 and 20 times for your total program. Here's what happens when a surety discounts $150,000 of underbillings it doesn't trust, using a 10x multiple to keep the math simple.
| Line | As reported | After surety adjustment |
|---|---|---|
| Current assets (including $150,000 of underbillings) | $1,250,000 | $1,100,000 |
| Current liabilities | $850,000 | $850,000 |
| Working capital | $400,000 | $250,000 |
| Equity | $450,000 | $450,000 |
| Smaller of working capital and equity | $400,000 | $250,000 |
| Bonding program at 10x | $4,000,000 | $2,500,000 |
One adjustment cut $1.5 million of capacity. The fix isn't clever accounting. It's billing on time, keeping underbillings small and explainable, and a WIP schedule the underwriter believes. Plug your own numbers into our bonding capacity calculator, or read how bonding capacity works.
Permits, impact fees and inspections coded to the job alongside labor and materials. Our job costing guide shows the setup.
Over and underbillings calculated every month and tied to the general ledger, so nothing surprises you at year end. Try the WIP calculator.
CPA-prepared financial statements and the supporting schedules surety underwriters ask for, managed over several quarters.
A rolling 13-week forecast built from your jobs, billings and retainage. Here's how construction cash flow really moves.
Business and owner returns, with planning through the year on equipment, entity setup and the timing of income and expenses.
Contabilidad, costos por obra, impuestos y fianzas en español para constructoras hispanas de Kennesaw y el norte de Cobb.
Our office at 1775 The Exchange SE, Suite 520, is in the Cumberland area of Cobb County, the same county as Kennesaw. Clients meet us there, on a job site when it helps, or entirely by video and secure portal. We're a licensed CPA firm and a member of the Associated General Contractors of America, and construction has been our main focus for a decade.
Nearby, we also cover Marietta, Cobb County and Cherokee County. For everything we do, see our construction CPA services.
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