Monthly bookkeeping and accounting, reviewed by a CPA

Month end arrives.

Nobody can tell you when the books will be closed. It happens when someone has capacity, which is usually after the decision you needed it for.

The close runs to a schedule you were told in advance, and you hear from us if anything is going to move it.

You are three years behind.

Every firm you call quotes hourly and none will tell you where it ends. The number grows as they find things.

A CPA scopes the cleanup and gives you a flat price and a date before any work starts. It runs alongside your operations.

You ask what a transaction was.

It takes two days and the answer is a guess, because the account was never reconciled and the detail is gone.

Every account ties to the statement, to the penny. The answer takes a message, not a project.

Something in the numbers looks off.

You find out in April, from the tax preparer, about a month that closed eleven months ago.

It is in the variance report that month, with the account named and the dollar amount next to it.

• ReconciliationBank and credit card accounts reconciled to the statement, to the penny. No rounding, no plugs, no suspense account carrying a balance into next month.
• Accounts payable and receivableBills entered and scheduled, invoices issued, customer payments applied, and aging reviewed each month rather than at year end.
• PayrollPayroll journal entries mapped to your QuickBooks setup, with liability accounts confirmed against what the payroll provider remitted.
• Financial statementsAn income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement prepared to a standard a lender, an auditor, or a buyer will accept.

We rebuild and reconcile the history inside your existing QuickBooks file until every account balances. You get a fixed scope, timeline, and price agreed before we begin, rather than an open hourly bill that grows as we find things.

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Migration from QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, Wave, or spreadsheets is part of onboarding and included in the engagement fee. Most cleanups run alongside your normal operations without disrupting them.

• The close, categorized to your structureBy job, client, location, or department. Whichever dimension you use to decide where the next dollar goes.
• A forward cash viewReconciled to the bank rather than to invoice dates, so it reflects when money moves instead of when it was promised.
• A variance reportEvery movement in revenue, cost, and overhead explained account by account, ending in a numbered list of items to address.