Two-part webinar series
Close your 2026 books like a pro: The builder’s year-end checklist
On Dec. 1, Buildertrend’s kicking off our year-end webinar series with Carla Merrill of Builder’s GoTo, an Elite QuickBooks ProAdvisor with 30+ years of construction accounting behind her. She’ll share best practices to close your books with numbers you can trust.
Keep the momentum going by registering for the second session in the series on Dec. 8 where Breakthrough Academy will walk through a strategic planning template for the new year.
Save your spot for our live webinar on Tuesday, Dec. 1 at 12 p.m. CDT
What you can expect from this webinar:
Close the year with numbers you can trust
Learn what to reconcile, what to clean up and how to structure and read your profit and loss statement so you can see how your business performed.
Turn your 2026 results into a clearer 2027 outlook
Explore where QuickBooks stops and job costing in Buildertrend starts, connecting your company’s financial picture to the jobs behind it.
Live Q&A with Carla
Get your questions answered live about year-end cleanup, financial reports and connecting your accounting with your job costs.

Carla Merrill
Owner of Builder’s GoTo
Meet the speaker
Carla Merrill helps builders make sense of their numbers. With more than 30 years of accounting experience and expertise as an Elite QuickBooks ProAdvisor, she specializes in construction job costing, QuickBooks setup and cleanup and connecting accounting with project management tools like Buildertrend.

Charley Burtwistle
VP of Commercial Strategy at Buildertrend
Meet the moderator
Charley Burtwistle brings a background in data science and business performance to his role leading strategy for commercial builders at Buildertrend. A former host of “The Building Code” podcast, he’s spent years connecting with builders and industry experts to explore practical ways to run stronger construction businesses.


