Catch-Up & Cleanup Bookkeeping
For records that go back further than one year or were built wrong.
Catch-Up & Cleanup Bookkeeping
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For owners who keep their own records through the year and need them turned into something a lender or a tax preparer can rely on.
An annual engagement takes twelve months of raw records and produces a closed, reconciled year. We work from bank and card statements rather than from whatever was typed into a spreadsheet along the way, because the statement is the only document neither of us can argue with.
The output is a year that stands up: every account reconciled to its December balance, every transaction coded, a balance sheet that actually balances, and a profit and loss that reflects the year as it happened rather than as it was remembered.
Statements from the institution, never a memory or a spreadsheet total.
Every account tied to its December balance before anything is called finished.
A closed year plus the supporting detail, in a format your preparer can use.
Owners who have been running the books themselves and want a professional pass before the year closes. Businesses that were dormant or very quiet and do not need ongoing service. Anyone who has just been told by a lender or a partner that they need real financial statements and does not currently have any.
It is also the common entry point for a business that intends to move to monthly bookkeeping. We build the year, establish clean opening balances, and then the monthly work starts from solid ground rather than from a guess.
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Account count, transaction volume, and what records actually exist. That review is what the engagement is quoted against.
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Statements for every account for all twelve months. Where a month is missing we tell you exactly which one and where to request it.
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Coded month by month in order, then tied to each account's year-end balance.
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Closed statements plus the supporting detail, ready to go to whoever prepares your return.
A lot of the year-end work we take on around Humble and the Lake Houston area comes from owners who were told in February that the shoebox was not going to work this time. The earlier in the year that call happens, the less it costs, because chasing a bank statement in March is easier than chasing it in October.
There is no hard limit. Anything older than the current year is scoped as catch-up and cleanup work rather than an annual build, because the method is different and so is the effort.
We work with what exists and give you a specific list of what is missing and which institution to request it from. We do not fill gaps with estimates.
That is the point of the handoff pack. Reconciled statements plus the supporting detail is what a preparer needs. If yours asks for something in a particular format, tell us at the start and we will build it that way.
Yes. An annual engagement has a defined start and finish and does not commit you to anything ongoing.
For records that go back further than one year or were built wrong.
Catch-Up & Cleanup BookkeepingStatements produced from reconciled records for a specific period.
Financial Statement PreparationThe structure the year gets built on, matched to how you actually earn.
Chart of Accounts SetupA consultation with the owners, a straight read on what this would take, and a scope in writing before anything starts.
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