Services

Your books kept current and closed every month, so you always know what the business made and what it owes.

• Every bank, card and loan account reconciled to its statement
• Transactions categorized, with receipts matched where you send them
• Profit and loss, balance sheet and a short note on anything unusual, by the 15th
• One email a month with any questions we have, never a drip of them
• Quarterly estimated tax figures, so the payments are based on real numbers

2 accounts are included; each extra account is $25 a month.

For businesses that are months, or years, behind. We rebuild the missing months from bank and card statements until the books are current, then carry on monthly if you want us to.

• Statements gathered and every month reconciled in order
• Owner draws, loans and personal spending separated out properly
• A list of anything that can't be explained from the statements, for you to answer once
• Books ready for the overdue returns to be filed

Catch-up months cost 75% of the monthly bookkeeping rate for the same volume. You get the full figure before we start.

Payroll run on time through your payroll provider, with the filings that come with it handled for you.

• New employees set up with their W-4 and state forms
• Paychecks and direct deposit on your schedule
• Quarterly 941 and annual 940 returns, and state payroll filings
• W-2s to employees and the Social Security Administration each January
• A reasonable salary worked out for S corp owners who pay themselves through payroll

The payroll provider's own subscription is separate and paid by you directly, so you can see exactly what it costs.

The federal business return prepared from books we already know, filed electronically, with the deadline tracked for you.

• Extensions filed when they make sense, with the tax still paid on time
• Quarterly estimated tax worked out from your actual year to date
• A walk-through of the finished return before it is filed

Prices assume we kept the books for the year. If we didn't, we will quote the return after looking at your records. State returns are quoted on the call, since they vary so much between states.

Sales tax returns prepared from your books and filed in each state where you are registered.

• Returns filed on each state's schedule, monthly, quarterly or annually
• Sales tax collected reconciled to what is paid
• Help registering in a new state when your sales there cross its threshold

Contractors tracked through the year so January is a formality.

• W-9s requested from new contractors before their first payment
• Payments totalled from the books, not from memory
• 1099-NECs sent to contractors and filed with the IRS by the deadline

Questions that come up between month-ends, answered from your own numbers.

• Whether an S corp election would save you money, and what it would cost to run
• How much to set aside for tax each month
• Whether you can afford to hire, and what an employee really costs
• What to expect at year end, before it arrives