QuickBooks Cleanup & Catch-Up Bookkeeping in Jacksonville

These are the symptoms we see most often in Jacksonville businesses that come to us for a cleanup:

• Bank balance in QuickBooks doesn't match the actual bank balance
• A large 'Uncategorized Expense' or 'Ask My Accountant' balance
• Negative balances in Undeposited Funds, A/R, or A/P
• Hundreds of unmatched transactions sitting in the bank feed
• Opening balance equity that never went to zero
• Income that's double-counted because invoices and deposits were both recorded as sales
• Loan balances that don't match the lender's statement

First we get accountant access to your file and spend about 30 minutes reviewing it at no charge. You get a short written summary of what we found and a fixed price. If you proceed, we work period by period, starting from the last date the books were known to be correct (often the last filed tax return), reconciling each account and fixing errors as we go. We keep a change log so you and your tax preparer can see exactly what moved.

Cleanups are typically done in two to four weeks. Multi-year cleanups or files with inventory and job costing take longer, and we'll tell you up front.

If your file is less than two years old and the errors are mostly categorization, a cleanup is cheaper and keeps your history. If the file has years of unreconciled activity, broken inventory, or was migrated badly from Desktop, a fresh file with correct opening balances is often faster and more reliable. We'll recommend one after the diagnostic and never charge you to clean up data that's better abandoned.

Our minimum cleanup project is $500. Beyond that we price per month behind, at roughly 75% of what your ongoing monthly bookkeeping rate would be, because catch-up work is faster per month than live bookkeeping. A business that would pay $395 a month and is nine months behind can expect a cleanup around $2,700. The calculator gives an instant estimate, and the diagnostic review confirms the final price.