You have stopped opening the reports
Not because you do not care — because you already know they are wrong, so reading them tells you nothing.
Service · Catch-up & clean-up
Catch-up &
clean-up
Restore overdue books and create a clean starting point. This is one of our favourite places to begin: the work is methodical, the outcome is unmistakable, and the relief is immediate.
- Typical starting point
- Months, sometimes years, behind
- Output
- Current, reconciled, tax-ready books
- Then
- A monthly close, so it does not recur
- Coverage
- Cloud-first bookkeeping for business owners in Buda, Kyle, and Austin, and across Hays County, Texas — with remote support nationwide.
- Pricing
- Confirmed after your free consultation
No judgement,
and no estimate before we look
Books fall behind for ordinary reasons. The business got busy, a bookkeeper left, a system migration went sideways, or the year simply got away from everyone. It is a common situation and it is a solvable one.
What we will not do is quote before looking.The honest answer to “how much does a clean-up cost?” depends entirely on how many months, how many accounts, how much of the source documentation survives, and what state the chart of accounts is in. Those get established at the consultation, and the price is confirmed before any work starts.
You probably need this if
Four signs the books
need a reset
The bank balance and the books disagree
And nobody can say by how much, or since when. This is the clearest signal that reconciliation has lapsed.
Your CPA asked for something you cannot produce
Filing season turns into a reconstruction project, usually at the worst possible moment.
Uncategorised transactions have piled up
The bank feed kept importing while nobody was coding it, so the ledger is full but meaningless.
The process
How the reset
actually runs
- 01
Review what exists
Bank and card statements, the accounting file, invoices, receipts, payroll records — whatever is there. The first job is establishing the real scope rather than assuming it.
- 02
Rebuild what is missing
Historical transactions reconstructed and categorised from source documents, with a clear record of anything that could not be substantiated.
- 03
Reconcile every account
Bank, credit card, and loan accounts matched period by period until the books and the statements agree.
- 04
Clean up the chart of accounts
Duplicate, unused, and meaningless categories consolidated, so the structure you carry forward actually reports something useful.
- 05
Hand off, tax-ready
Current books, readable statements, and organised records your CPA can work from — plus a written note of what was reconstructed and what was missing.
- 06
Move onto a monthly rhythm
Most clients move straight from clean-up into monthly bookkeeping, which is what stops the backlog rebuilding.
What you end
up with
- Reconciled bank, card, and loan accounts
- A chart of accounts that reports something meaningful
- Financial statements for the recovered periods
- Organised records your CPA can file from
- A written summary of what was rebuilt and what could not be
- A clear route onto a monthly close
Ready when you are
However far behind,
it is recoverable.
A free 30-minute consultation. Bring the mess as it is — we will tell you honestly what it takes to fix.