SS-WEB-10 · PRACTICE FILE · BOOKKEEPING

Books, handled.

Monthly bookkeeping with a close date you can circle: transactions categorized, accounts reconciled, and reports written in plain English — organized for your CPA when tax season comes.

Named product · fixed scope

What the engagement includes — in writing.

One named product, one fixed scope, one price fixed in your plan before work starts.

Setup & catch-up

  • Chart of accounts built for how your business actually runs
  • Historical cleanup scoped honestly — you’ll know the size of the mess before we start
  • Works with the major platforms: QuickBooks, Xero, or what you already use

Monthly close

  • Transactions categorized and accounts reconciled every month
  • A written close date you can circle — not “sometime after the 15th”
  • A reconciliation checklist behind every close, same discipline every month

Reports you can read

  • Monthly P&L and cash view with plain-English notes on what changed
  • Flags raised when a number moves in a way you should know about
  • No jargon walls — if you can’t read the report, the report failed

Tax-season ready

  • Clean, organized books handed to your CPA — we do the books, they do the tax
  • Year-end without archaeology: everything categorized, reconciled, documented
  • Your CPA will notice the difference, and so will their invoice

Scope is written down, both directions. Your plan states the accounts, volume, and platforms in scope. Catch-up work is scoped and priced separately, in writing, before it starts.

How it runs

Three steps. No mysteries.

Setup WEEK 1–2

What happens
We assess the current state honestly, build or repair the chart of accounts, and scope any catch-up in writing.
You get
A clean starting point and a fixed monthly scope.

Close MONTHLY, DATED

What happens
Categorization, reconciliations, and the checklist — done by the close date written in your plan, every month.
You get
Books that are actually closed, on a date you can circle.

Report PLAIN ENGLISH

What happens
The monthly report lands with notes on what moved and why — plus flags on anything you should look at.
You get
Numbers you can read, and act on.

The discipline

A close date you can circle.

Bad bookkeeping isn’t usually wrong numbers — it’s late ones. The whole product is discipline:

A written monthly close date, met. Late books are wrong books, because you’re steering on stale numbers.

Reconciliation is a checklist, not a mood: every account, every month, same steps.

We’re bookkeepers, not your CPA — the books hand off clean for tax, and we stay in our lane.

Plain-English notes with every report. If you need a translator for your own numbers, something’s wrong.

What it costs

Priced by scope band — set before work starts.

Your free growth plan scopes the work and fixes the exact price in writing before anything begins — no hourly meter, no surprise line items, and the number doesn’t move after that. Combine services and the discount is automatic:

10% offAny two services together — applied to both.
15% offThree or more services together — applied across all of them.

The full pricing model — published bands, terms, and how ranges work — is on the price list.

Fair questions

Asked by every smart buyer.

Q.1Which software do you work with?

The major platforms — QuickBooks, Xero, and the ecosystem around them. If you’re already on something, we work in it; if you’re starting fresh, your plan recommends the fit and the setup is part of the scope.

Q.2Do you replace my CPA?

No — we complement them. We keep the books clean and current all year; your CPA handles tax strategy and filing. They get organized, reconciled books instead of a shoebox, which typically makes their work faster and their bill smaller.

Q.3My books are a disaster. How bad is too bad?

We’ve yet to meet too bad — but we scope catch-up honestly before touching it, in writing, so you know the size of the cleanup before you commit. No discovering the “real” scope three invoices in.

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Get your free growth plan.

A working session on your goals, then a written plan with the exact scope, price, and sequence we’d recommend — free, and yours to keep whether or not you hire us.