Webinar · 1 hour · Nov 12, 2026 · 12:00 PM ET
From Certified Payroll to Accurate WIP Schedules: What Contractors Need to Get Right on Prevailing Wage Jobs
Every registrant gets the Payroll-to-WIP Health Check: a one-page checklist to run against your own books before your next audit, bond renewal, or covenant review. Live or replay, it's yours. The problem: Your certified payroll passed DOL review. Your WIP schedule still surprised your CPA. Those two things are related. Why: One miscoded hour or one wrong fringe rate compounds for the life of the job. Then it shows up all at once as: - An over-billing that gets clawed back - An under-billing hiding a cash problem - Profit fade right before bond renewal
What you'll walk away with:
- The field-level mistakes that pass DOL review and still feed wrong numbers into job costing
- How one wrong rate becomes a wrong percent-complete number
- What your CPA, surety, and bank look for first in a WIP schedule
- The Payroll-to-WIP Health Check to run before your next audit, bond renewal, or covenant review
- Red flags to catch in the 60 days before year-end
Who it's for: Owners, CFOs, controllers, payroll and accounting managers, and PMs at contractors doing public works or government-funded work. CPAs, sureties, and lenders welcome too.
About the presenters
Shawna Coronado
Digital Content Strategist, eBacon
Shawna Coronado is eBacon’s Digital Content Strategist and the regular host of its webinar series. She helps payroll managers and workforce management teams make sense of complex construction compliance topics, turning regulations into clear, actionable guidance.
Chris Mast
Partner, Assurance & Advisory, GBQ Partners
As Partner within the firm's assurance and advisory practice, Chris serves various privately held clients, primarily in the construction and real estate industries. He is also part of the employee benefit plan audit group and has experience directing audits for defined contribution plans. Chris is a Certified Construction Industry Financial Professional (CCIFP), the sole accounting certification for construction financial professionals. He is also a 2018 graduate of the Builders Exchange of Central Ohio Rising Leader Institute, in partnership with The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business.
Bruce Orr
Founder, ProNovos
Bruce Orr is the founder and CEO of ProNovos, a data scientist, and a speaker on AI, construction finance, and business growth. He helps construction leaders connect emerging technology with practical decisions about profitability, capital, and growth. Through his speaking, education, and work at ProNovos, his mission is to give contractors the tools, the technology, and the education to reach their goals.