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Plan Beyond The Next Job

Running an electrical contracting business takes skill, long hours, and the ability to solve problems in real time. But as your business grows, the questions get bigger than the next project, payroll cycle, or tax deadline. Adair Advisory Group, led by John H. Adair, CPA, MBA, helps electrical contractors think ahead about business value, tax planning, retirement income, and what life could look like when you are ready to step back, sell, or slow down.

Frequently Asked Questions From Electrical Contractors

Electrical contractors should consider how their business taxes, cash flow, retirement plan, personal investments, and future exit strategy work together. Because the business is often one of the owner’s largest assets, planning should look beyond the next job or tax filing and focus on how the business can support long-term personal wealth.
Tax planning can help electrical contractors make more informed decisions about compensation, retirement contributions, business expenses, cash flow, and long-term income. The goal is to move beyond annual tax preparation and use proactive planning to support both the business and the owner’s personal financial goals.
Electrical contractors should start exit planning years before they are ready to sell, transfer, or step away from the business. Starting early gives you more time to improve business value, prepare for taxes, think through retirement income, and decide what you want life to look like after ownership.
A financial advisor can help you prepare for the financial side of selling an electrical contracting business, including taxes, retirement income, personal wealth planning, and what comes next after the sale. While other professionals may handle valuation, legal work, or the transaction itself, we help coordinate the planning around your broader financial life.
Yes. Adair Advisory Group works virtually with electrical contractors and business owners. Our process is designed to help clients share information securely, meet efficiently, and receive planning guidance without needing to come into a physical office.

Build A Strategy That Connects Your Business & Personal Goals

Tax Planning That Looks Ahead

Your tax picture should be part of the larger plan. We help you think through business taxes, personal taxes, compensation, retirement contributions, and planning opportunities before decisions become urgent.

Retirement Plans For Owners & Teams

A retirement plan can support your own future while helping you take care of key employees. We help review options such as owner-focused retirement planning, business retirement accounts, and strategies that fit your goals.

Exit Strategy Before The Exit

You may not be ready to sell today, but that does not mean it is too early to plan. It's good business strategy to think through what your business could become, how it may support retirement, and what needs to be in place before a transition.

You Need An Advisor Who Can Walk The Talk

John H. Adair, CPA, MBA didn’t start in an office. His first job in the electrical trade was laying rigid pipe between steam pits in the middle of a Baltimore summer. He came up through electrical contracting and later moved into general contracting — years in the field doing the actual work before being recruited inside to handle estimating, collections, project management, and dispatch. He understands the realities of running a contracting business because he lived them.

That perspective matters. When you’re talking about cash flow, change orders, employees, equipment, retirement plans, business value, or the day you may want to step away — you deserve a conversation with someone who knows how your business actually works, not just what your financials say.

Turn Your Business Into Future Options

Your electrical contracting business may be one of your most important financial assets. But the value of that business does not automatically become retirement income, lifestyle flexibility, or a smooth exit. We help you plan early and connect today’s decisions to tomorrow’s options, from tax planning and business structure to investments, retirement income, and the bigger question behind it all: what are you building this for?

Connect The Pieces Before You Step Back

Business Tax Planning

Look beyond annual filing and use tax planning as part of your larger business and personal financial strategy.

Cash Flow Decisions

Think through how money moves through the business, how you pay yourself, and how those choices support future goals.

Retirement Strategy

Build a plan that considers income, investments, taxes, and the business value you may one day rely on.

Exit Planning

Prepare for a future sale, internal transition, gradual step back, or other ownership changes early, before it becomes urgent.

Personal Wealth

Coordinate the business with your family’s financial life, long-term goals, and the lifestyle you want to create.

Frequently Asked Questions About Working With Adair Advisory Group

Financial planning begins with a fit meeting. This first conversation helps us understand your business, your personal financial picture, what you are trying to accomplish, and whether our planning relationship is the right fit.
A tax preparer typically focuses on completing your return. Adair Advisory Group looks more broadly at tax planning, business decisions, retirement planning, investments, and how the business you are building can support your future life.
A business can become personal wealth when the owner plans ahead for valuation, taxes, cash flow, retirement savings, succession and the eventual sale or transition of the company. Adair Advisory Group helps owners look at the business as part of their broader financial life, not as a separate asset disconnected from retirement and personal goals.
Yes. For electrical contractors and business owners, the business and personal financial picture are often closely connected. We look at business taxes, personal taxes, retirement accounts, investments, income needs, and long-term goals together.
Yes. Exit planning does not always mean selling the business all at once. We can help you think through what it may look like to reduce your role, stay semi-involved, prepare a successor, or structure the business around a different version of work.
Adair Advisory Group uses a virtual process and tools such as TaxDome to help clients securely upload documents, complete organizers, and prepare for planning conversations. This helps make the process more organized and allows meetings to focus on the decisions that matter most.

An Advisor Who Understands Electrical Contractors

Adair Advisory Group is led by John Adair, who brings together tax planning, financial planning, business ownership experience, and firsthand knowledge of the field and office contracting world including: estimating, collections, project management, dispatch and more. That combination helps him connect with electrical contractors who want practical guidance from someone who understands both the numbers and the work behind them.

John’s approach is comprehensive, forward-looking, and built around fit. He helps clients look at what they have built, why they are building it, and how their business can support the life they want now and next.

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Before You Plan The Exit, Know The Why

What Are You Building Toward?

Your business has taken years of time, energy, and sacrifice to build. The next step should be connected to what you want that work to make possible.

When Do You Want To Step Back?

Whether you want to sell, slow down, or stay involved in a different way, planning early gives you more room to shape the transition.

What Should The Business Provide?

We help you think through how business value, retirement income, tax planning, and personal wealth can work together.

What Comes After Ownership?

The goal is not just getting out of the business. It is having a plan for the life, freedom, and purpose you want on the other side.

Talk to an Advisor Who’s Been on the Job

Whether you are growing your electrical contracting business, thinking about selling one day, or wondering what retirement could really look like, the first step is a conversation.

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