Stress-Free Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the day-to-day recording of your business's financial activity — sales, expenses, payroll, and bank transactions. For a small business, it's what turns a pile of receipts and statements into a clear picture of where your money actually goes. Accurate books mean tax season without the scramble, early warning on cash-flow problems, and numbers you can hand to a lender or accountant with confidence.

Bookkeeping is the ongoing work of recording and organizing transactions. Accounting is the analysis built on top of it — tax filing, financial strategy, and formal reporting. A bookkeeper keeps your ledger accurate month to month; a CPA uses those records to file returns and advise you. The two work best together: clean books make accounting faster, cheaper, and far less painful at year end.

You can, and many owners start out doing it themselves — it works fine while transactions are few and you have time to stay current. Hiring a bookkeeper starts to pay off when reconciliations slip behind, payroll enters the picture, or you're spending evenings fixing last month's entries. If your books are already behind, having someone clean them up is usually faster than untangling it yourself.

I work in QuickBooks, Wave, and QFloors, so in most cases you can keep using the tools you already know and trust — there's no migration to sit through and no new system to learn. I work with payroll platforms as well, and can fit into whichever one you already run. If you're not on any software yet, I'll help you pick something that fits the size of your business rather than defaulting to the most expensive option.

Small businesses across a range of industries — over 25 years I've worked with plumbing companies, restaurants, and flooring businesses, among many others. Trades and service businesses bring job costing and contractor tracking; restaurants bring high transaction volume and tight margins; flooring brings QFloors and inventory. The bookkeeping fundamentals carry across all of them, and the details get tailored to how your business actually runs.

Yes. I handle the full cycle: running payroll on schedule, keeping employee and contractor records straight, and making sure every run reconciles cleanly against your books. If you already have a payroll system in place, nothing needs to move — I work inside the setup you have. If you're not set up yet, I can help you choose a platform that fits the size of your team.

Cost depends on workload rather than business size. Pricing starts at $150/month for straightforward books and scales with transaction volume, number of accounts to reconcile, payroll, and any backlog that needs cleanup. A solo owner with one account sits near the low end; a business with payroll, contractors, and two years of catch-up work sits higher. Email me what your books look like and I'll send a specific number.