Bookkeeping · Vancouver WA / Portland OR
Most small businesses don't have a bookkeeping problem. They have a reconciliation problem, a payment-processor problem, and a shoebox of receipts nobody's touched since March. We fix all three and keep them fixed.
Priced on how much there is to reconcile, not on what you earn. Move up or down a tier any month.
A sole operator or a business running one account with steady, modest volume.
A business taking card payments and collecting sales tax. Most clients land here.
Multiple revenue streams, multiple entities, or a business that needs the numbers right weekly rather than monthly.
Bank feeds cleared, ghost inventory and negative liability balances investigated, miscategorized expenses corrected. However many months it's been, and with absolutely no judgment about it.
Priced by how far behind you are, quoted up front before any work starts.
QuickBooks, Xero, Wave or something else — set up for your industry rather than out of the box. Custom chart of accounts so you can see each revenue stream, and clear rules for owner equity and asset tracking.
One time, whichever platform you use.
What the work is
Months of pending transactions piled up and the software stopped agreeing with the bank. We clear the backlog until the ledger matches the real statements, then chase down the ghost inventory and negative liability balances that caused it.
They deposit net payouts, not gross sales. Your revenue looks smaller than it is, merchant fees are invisible, and the sales tax you collected is mixed in with everything else. We split the batches back out so each number means what it says.
A default chart of accounts tells you what you spent, not which part of the business is making money. We rebuild it around your actual revenue streams and set rules for the messy parts — owner equity, personal money used for the business, assets.
It shouldn't be. The same close checklist runs every month whether or not anyone asks, weekly reserve sweeps mean the money is already set aside, and sales tax is tracked as you collect it. Your CPA gets verified books at year end instead of a folder and an apology.
Next step
Tell us what state the books are in and how far behind. You'll get a straight answer about what it takes to fix and what it costs, before you commit to anything.
