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Bookkeeping Consultation

Get clarity and confidence in your business finances with a personalized bookkeeping consultation. Whether you’re just starting out, scaling up, or need your accounts cleaned up.

What the consultation includes

• Quick intake: We review your business type, accounting software, and current bookkeeping processes.

• Records assessment: We evaluate your books for completeness, organization, and common issues such as uncategorized transactions, bank reconciliation problems, or outdated chart of accounts.

• Tax-readiness check: We highlight items that affect payroll, sales tax, and income tax reporting so you’re prepared for filing.

• Workflow recommendations: Tailored suggestions on bookkeeping routines, internal controls, documentation practices, and best ways to track income and expenses.

Format and timing

• 60-minute session with a written summary and recommended next steps delivered within 48 hours.

• Optional follow-up session available to implement recommendations or discussion of written summary

A bookkeeping consultation helps small business owners understand their finances, tidy up records, and set up time-saving systems that cut mistakes. The bookkeeper reviews your records, finds missing or wrong entries, suggests better payroll and invoicing.

Monthly Bookkeeping Services

Monthly bookkeeping ensures your financial records are accurate, organized, and ready for decision-making during tax time. Handling routine transaction recording, reconciliation, and reporting so you can focus on running your business with confidence that your books are current and compliant.

What's included

• Transaction recording: Enter all bank, credit card, and cash transactions into your accounting system with proper categorization and memo notes.

• Bank and credit card reconciliations: Reconcile accounts each month to ensure balances match statements and to detect errors or fraud early.

• Accounts payable management: Enter and track bills, schedule payments, and maintain vendor records to avoid late fees and preserve vendor relationships.

• Accounts receivable management: Create and send invoices, track payments, record customer deposits, and follow up on overdue balances.

• Payroll account reconciliation: Reconcile payroll liability and expense accounts (payroll processing itself can be managed separately or coordinated with your payroll provider).

• Expense categorization and coding: Apply consistent account codes and business-appropriate classifications to support budgeting, tax filing, and financial analysis.

• Month-end close: Perform necessary adjustments, review accruals, prepaid items, and depreciation entries to produce clean month-end balances.

• Financial reporting: Prepare monthly financial statements including Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Summary, plus a short narrative highlighting key trends and action items.

• Sales tax tracking: Record and reconcile sales tax collected and payable; prepare summaries to ease periodic sales tax returns.

• Ongoing support: Ask questions, request reports, and get guidance on accounting best practices throughout the month.

Deliverables

• Monthly reconciled accounts and closing package

• Digital copies of financial statements and supporting schedules

• Summary email highlighting financial position, cash flow concerns, and recommended next steps

How it helps your business

• Accurate, up-to-date books for better cash flow management and faster decisions

• Reduced risk of errors, missed payments, and penalties

• Faster and less expensive year-end accounting and tax preparation

• Clear picture of profitability and spending trends to inform strategy

• More time for you to focus on operations and growth

Monthly bookkeeping is ideal for small to mid-sized businesses, nonprofits, and busy solo entrepreneurs who need consistent, reliable recordkeeping to support growth, compliance, and financial clarity.

What’s included

• Initial assessment: scan file for red flags (unreconciled accounts, duplicate or mismatched transactions, inconsistent class/location use, missing opening balances, and corrupt lists).

• Bank and credit card reconciliation: clear outstanding items, match transactions, and fix reconciliation discrepancies.

• Transaction review and correction: correct dates, amounts, account classifications, vendors/customers, and splits. Remove duplicates and merge or reassign miscategorized transactions.

• Chart of Accounts cleanup: consolidate or rename accounts, remove unused or inactive accounts, and ensure account types follow best practices.

• Accounts receivable and payable cleanup: reconcile customer invoices and payments, apply credits/overpayments, clean vendor bills and payments, and resolve negative balances.

• Payroll and tax items review: verify payroll liability balances and payroll tax accounts (if payroll in QuickBooks), flag items needing outside payroll provider correction.

• Opening balances & historical adjustments: correct opening balances and, when necessary, make clear, documented adjustments (not silent edits) to preserve audit trail.

• Reconciliations and supporting documentation: attach or note supporting documents where available, and reconcile key balance sheet accounts (bank, credit card, merchant accounts, loans).

• Final review & summary: provide a concise report of issues found, actions taken, remaining items (if any), and recommended next steps or controls to prevent recurrence.

Deliverables

• Cleaned QuickBooks file (or set of recommended journal entries when direct edits are not advisable)

• Reconciliation statements for bank/credit card accounts worked on

• Change log: a clear list of edits and reasons

• Short guidance checklist for maintaining clean books going forward

Timeline Typical cleanup time Pricing Pricing is based on file condition and time required. I will provide a custom estimate after the initial assessment. Fixed-fee options available for common cleanup scopes.

When to request a cleanup

• You’re behind on reconciliations or bookkeeping

• Reports don’t match bank statements or tax returns

• You see negative balances, duplicate transactions, or unknown account activity