Twelve months of transactions brought into order, tied to the bank, and delivered as statements your CPA can actually use.
Some businesses only need the books touched once a year. Low volume, simple structure, an owner who tracks the important stuff in their head. That works right up until year end, when somebody has to turn twelve months of bank activity into financial statements. Annual bookkeeping is that job, done properly.
This is not a shoebox-of-receipts operation. It's a full year reconstructed in your accounting software, reconciled month by month, with a chart of accounts that makes sense for your industry. We handle annual work for clients in Lexington, Louisville, London, and remotely across Kentucky. When it's finished you have a real set of books, not a spreadsheet somebody typed up.
The year gets worked in order, not all at once. Bank and credit card statements go in first and get reconciled month by month, because that's the only way to catch a missing deposit or a duplicated charge. Transactions get coded against a chart of accounts that reflects how your business actually earns and spends. Loans get amortized. Fixed assets get recorded. Payroll gets tied out to what was actually filed. By December's reconciliation the file tells a true story of the year.
The firm doesn't prepare income tax returns, and that's by design. What it does is hand your CPA a closed year that doesn't need to be fixed before it can be used. That's a meaningful difference. A tax preparer working from clean books spends their time on tax questions instead of asking why the bank balance doesn't match. If you don't have a CPA yet, we can point you toward outside firms that handle income tax work for businesses your size.
Annual bookkeeping is a record, not a management tool. You find out in March what happened last June. For a small operation with stable margins, fine. For a growing company, that lag gets expensive. You can't fix a pricing problem you won't see for nine months. Most businesses that cross into real growth end up moving to a quarterly or monthly close, and that transition is easier when the prior year is already clean. If you're on the fence, the consultation is a good place to sort out which cadence the business actually needs.
Multiple years, if that's the situation. Older years are handled one at a time, in order, since each year's ending balances become the next year's starting point. If you're several years behind, the first conversation is about scoping how much history actually needs to be rebuilt versus what can be left alone.
Bank and credit card statements for the full year, payroll reports, loan documents, and access to whatever accounting file exists. If there's no file yet, one gets set up. A short list of anything unusual that happened during the year helps too, like an equipment purchase or an owner contribution.
No. Income tax return preparation and filing aren't services offered here. The deliverable is closed, accurate books plus the supporting detail your tax preparer needs. Sales tax filings, payroll tax filings, and quarterly estimated payments are separate services that are handled here.
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Behind by months or years? The backlog gets rebuilt period by period until the file is current and every balance ties to something real.
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