Books messy, or months behind? We clean up your QuickBooks or Xero file, reconcile every account and bring your bookkeeping up to date, so your numbers are ready for tax time, a lender or an investor.
Most cleanups start with one of these situations:
If the books have not been touched for a while, we start from your bank and credit card statements. We record each missing month in order, reconcile it, and hand back books that are current to your latest closed month.
From there, our monthly bookkeeping service keeps them current, so you don't fall behind again.
Tell us which software you use, how many accounts you have and how far behind the books are.
We review your file and statements, then confirm the scope and timeline before any work starts.
We correct, categorize and reconcile, and list any transactions we need you to confirm.
You get reconciled books and financial statements, and can move on to monthly bookkeeping.
A client moving from another payroll system was missing payroll records in QuickBooks, which affected their employees' W-2 reporting.
We reviewed the payroll data, found discrepancies in pay schedules and tax calculations, and worked with QuickBooks Support on the historical entries it would not accept. We then set out a journal-entry approach to keep the financial records accurate, and flagged the tax reporting implications.
A US construction and general contracting business needed five years of books corrected, 2021 to 2025, covering about 5,000 transactions.
Working directly in the client's QuickBooks file, we reviewed and categorized the historical transactions, reconciled the bank and credit card accounts, and corrected accounting entries. We also reviewed equipment financing, loans and fixed assets, so that each year's profit and loss statement and balance sheet is more accurate.
We delivered the cleanup one year at a time, and the client approved all five years between June and September 2026, about three months from the first approval to the last. The work also identified loan reconciliation issues that need further documents before they can be closed.
A cleanup corrects the books you already have: fixing miscategorized and duplicate transactions, reconciling bank and credit card accounts, and correcting balances so your reports match your statements.
Catch-up bookkeeping records the months that were never entered. We work from your bank and credit card statements, enter each missing month in order and reconcile it, until your books are current.
It depends on how many months and accounts are involved and how far off the books are. We confirm the timeline after reviewing your file, before any work starts.
Yes. We work mainly in QuickBooks and Xero. If you use other software, tell us on the call.
Access to your accounting software, and bank and credit card statements for the period we are fixing. We send a short checklist after the first call.
Yes. Once the cleanup is done, our monthly bookkeeping service keeps the books current. See outsourced bookkeeping services.
Book a free call. We'll look at where your books stand and tell you what it takes to bring them up to date.
