Bookkeeping Services
No Judgement, Just Clean Financials
Last year I opened a set of books and found a $6,904 laptop sitting in a monthly expense line and a $2,350 payment to a sales rep filed under office supplies. Neither one was anybody's mistake — both were coded the way a generic chart of accounts tells you to code them, and both would pass a tax return without a comment. But the laptop made one month look like a catastrophe, the rep payment made the cost of selling look smaller than it actually was, and when we sat down to figure out what the business had to earn in a month to cover itself, the number came out wrong in both directions.
That's the part I care about. Books that are correct for the IRS and books that can answer a question are two different jobs, and most bookkeeping only does the first one.
What this is
Monthly reconciliation, categorized transactions, and statements that come out on a schedule you can count on. A chart of accounts built around how your business actually makes money — by trip type, product line, payer, crew, whatever the real unit turns out to be — instead of the default list. Owner's pay pulled apart from the business's costs, so the draw is a number you can see rather than something buried between gas and groceries.
Whether your records live in QuickBooks or a notebook in the truck. I have worked from both.
What it Costs
Tier
Alongside, Financial Planning or Analysis Work
Monthly Cost
One - two accounts or fewer, under 100 transactions, no payroll, one revenue stream
Three - six or more accounts, 300+ transactions, or any of the following: inventory, sales tax, job costing, second entity
$400
Two - three to five accounts, 100-300 transactions, payroll, two or three revenue streams tracked separately
Clean Up
Starting at $1,200
I specialize in Quickbooks cleanup. Behind by a few months or a few years, it's the same job — reconcile what's there, rebuild what isn't, and fix the categories that are sending you the wrong signal. No judgment about how it got this way. You end up with books your CPA won't argue with and a starting line you can work from.