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Three people at a table with papers in a traffic control company office, a hard hat on the wall and barricades outside the window

Running the business

Cash or Accrual: Which Profit and Loss to Run a Traffic Control Company On

What cash and accrual profit and loss each tell a traffic control owner, why they disagree so often in a business with slow receivables and retainage, what the IRS says about the two methods, and how to read both without confusing your management view with your tax method.

Nov 10, 2026 · 7 min read

Stacks of orange barricades and drums in a traffic control yard, with a folder, a blank form and a calculator on a table in the foreground

Running the business

Sales Tax on Barricade Rentals, Traffic Control Services and Material Sales

How sales tax generally treats the three things a traffic control company bills — rented devices, crew services and sold materials — with Texas as the worked example, the questions to take to your tax agency, and how to keep the invoice lines that make the answer provable.

Nov 10, 2026 · 7 min read

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