Bookkeeping cleanup and catch-up for books that are behind

Messy books usually have the same few problems. A bookkeeper quit halfway through a year, bank feeds were accepted without review, or an owner did the books at night and ran out of time.

• Thousands of uncategorized transactions sitting in the bank feed
• Duplicates from feeds connected twice or statements imported over feeds
• Opening balances that don't match the bank, often from a Desktop conversion
• Personal spending mixed with business spending
• Loan payments recorded as expenses instead of principal and interest
• Undeposited funds and old uncleared checks that inflate the bank balance

Cleanup starts at $250. The final price depends on how far behind the books are, how many transactions each month holds and how many accounts need reconciling, so ask for a quote once you know how many months are missing.

How long it takes depends on the same things, plus how quickly we get your statements. Sending every statement at the start is the single biggest thing you can do to speed it up.

If your books were kept with Bench and are incomplete, download the statements and reports it gives you, and we rebuild the missing months in QuickBooks Online or Xero. If an auditor is coming, a cleanup first means the audit tests clean numbers rather than finding your errors for you.

If your books were converted from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online, we check every opening balance against your statements, since conversions often carry old errors across.

Whether you hire us or do it yourself, a cleanup is finished when all of these are true:

• Every bank, card and loan account is reconciled to its statement for every month.
• No transactions remain uncategorized or in suspense accounts.
• Opening balances match the prior year's tax return or last good balance sheet.
• Personal and business spending are separated, with owner draws recorded as draws.
• Payroll in the books matches the payroll reports and filings.