Catch-up
bookkeeping for
contractors.
Behind, tangled, or never really set up. I specialize in cleanup and getting you current, no judgment.
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It happens to
good contractors.
Cleanup bookkeeping for contractors is how a company months or years behind gets tax-ready books: I rebuild the records in QuickBooks Online, fix the job costing, then keep them current with monthly bookkeeping.
Nobody falls behind on their books because the work was going badly. It happens because the work was going well and the paperwork lost the race.
However far back it goes, the first step is the same: find out what is actually there.
NEVER PROPERLY SET UP
The business grew out of a spreadsheet and a bank app, and a real chart of accounts never got built.
YOUR BOOKKEEPER LEFT
Somebody stopped answering, or handed back a file nobody has been able to make sense of since.
YOU HAVE BEEN DOING IT
Between quoting, running crews, and getting paid, the books became the thing that waited until Sunday, then did not happen.
A DEADLINE ARRIVED
A filing, a bonding request, or a lender wants figures, and the numbers are not ready to give anybody.
From a mess
to a clean close.
Cleanup is a defined job with an end to it. Here is what it consists of, in the order it happens.
We Look First
I go through what exists, the file, the bank records, the open months, before anybody quotes anything.
You See The Scope
How far back it goes and what it takes to close it, agreed before the work starts, not discovered halfway through.
The Books Get Rebuilt
Accounts reconciled, transactions categorized correctly, and costs put back onto the jobs they belong to.
Every Month Closes
Each open period is shut properly, so the year adds up and the numbers stop moving after the fact.
You Get Real Reports
Tax-ready books and statements that mean something, the point of the exercise, not a by-product of it.
Current is the start,
not the finish.
Cleanup ends with books that are current. Keeping them that way is the monthly service, and it is where every cleanup goes. The backlog is the first month of the work, not a job that stands on its own.
Cleanup is the start of monthly bookkeeping, not a one-off. Once the books are current I keep them that way, in QuickBooks Online, every month.
What if I do not
have everything?
Almost nobody does, and it is rarely the obstacle people expect. Bank and card statements carry most of a year on their own, and I work from those first.
Whatever the books are in now, Desktop, a spreadsheet, a shoebox, or a QuickBooks Online file somebody else set up, I get the cleanup done in QuickBooks Online, the only accounting platform I support.
- Bank & card statements
- Bills & receipts
- Your job list
- Whatever file exists
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Bookkeeping that
knows the job.
From job costing to retainage and progress billing, I understand the financial pressure behind every project.
Flooring
Contractors
Materials tied to the right job and labor costed so you know what each install really made.
Roofing
Contractors
Job costing, progress billing, and retainage tracked as the real receivables they are.
Painting
Contractors
Materials and crew hours coded per job, so margin is clear before the next bid goes out.
Cleaning
Contractors
Route and contract profitability kept clean and current, so you know which work pays.
Landscaping
& Lawn Care
Seasonal cash flow tracked so the busy months carry the quiet ones, all year.
After cleanup: monthly books
that stay current.
Cleanup closes the backlog. Monthly bookkeeping keeps accounts reconciled, job costs current, and reports ready for your tax preparer. A real person handles it in QuickBooks Online; payroll and tax filing are outside this service.
Bookkeeping for Contractors: The Full Picture
See how clean books and job costing support the work your crews do.After Cleanup: Monthly Bookkeeping
See what stays current once the backlog is closed.Tax-Ready Books Once You Are Current
Understand the organized reports you can share with your tax preparer.Get your numbers
working for you.
Clean books. Better decisions. A bookkeeper built for the trades.
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