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ACCOUNTING & BOOKKEEPING | QuickBooks Expert | Financial Statements | (REMOTE)
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Are your books behind, unreconciled, confusing, or simply not giving you useful information?
I provide professional Accounting, Bookkeeping, QuickBooks, Financial Reporting, Cleanup, Reconciliation, and Controller-level support for businesses that need more than basic transaction entry.
My objective is simple:
CLEAN BOOKS.
ACCURATE NUMBERS.
RECONCILED ACCOUNTS.
USEFUL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS.
BETTER BUSINESS DECISIONS.
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## ACCOUNTING SHOULD BE MORE THAN DATA ENTRY
Entering transactions is only the beginning. Professional accounting means making sure those transactions ultimately produce financial statements that accurately reflect what is happening in your business.
Every month, the accounting process should answer questions such as:
• Did the bank reconcile?
• Are credit cards reconciled?
• Are receivables accurate?
• Are vendor balances accurate?
• Are loans reconciled?
• Are payroll liabilities reasonable?
• Are expenses properly classified?
• Are revenues recorded correctly?
• Are Balance Sheet accounts supported?
• Are unusual transactions investigated?
• Do the financial statements make sense?
My focus is ACCOUNTING INTEGRITY — not simply getting transactions entered.
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## MONTHLY ACCOUNTING & BOOKKEEPING
Services can include:
• Daily, weekly, or monthly bookkeeping
• General ledger accounting
• Transaction review and classification
• Bank reconciliations
• Credit-card reconciliations
• Accounts payable
• Accounts receivable
• Customer invoicing
• Vendor bill management
• Journal entries
• Accruals and prepaid expenses
• Fixed-asset accounting
• Loan and debt reconciliations
• Payroll accounting
• Month-end close
• Year-end accounting support
• Financial statement preparation
• Management reporting
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## QUICKBOOKS ONLINE & DESKTOP
QuickBooks support may include:
• Company setup
• Chart-of-accounts design and cleanup
• Bank feeds
• Transaction categorization
• Reconciliation
• Accounts payable and receivable
• Customer invoicing
• Vendor management
• Classes and tracking structures
• Journal entries
• Financial reporting
• Payroll-related accounting
• Historical cleanup
• Catch-up bookkeeping
• Balance Sheet cleanup
• Profit & Loss review
• Accounting workflow improvement
The goal is not simply to operate QuickBooks. The goal is to make QuickBooks produce financial information you can trust.
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## CATCH-UP BOOKKEEPING & CLEANUP
Behind on your books? That can be fixed.
Cleanup services can include:
• Historical bank reconciliation
• Credit-card reconciliation
• Uncategorized transaction cleanup
• Duplicate transaction investigation
• Opening-balance corrections
• Balance Sheet cleanup
• Accounts receivable cleanup
• Accounts payable cleanup
• Loan reconciliation
• Payroll-account reconciliation
• Suspense-account investigation
• Prior-period accounting review
• Financial-statement reconstruction
• Chart-of-accounts restructuring
I do not believe in forcing accounts to zero or hiding unexplained differences. The objective is to understand what happened and establish books that can be supported.
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## MONTH-END CLOSE
A disciplined month-end close transforms bookkeeping into financial reporting.
Month-end procedures can include:
• Bank and credit-card reconciliations
• Accounts Receivable review
• Accounts Payable review
• Payroll reconciliation
• Loan reconciliation
• Accrual entries
• Prepaid expense review
• Revenue review
• Expense classification review
• Balance Sheet review
• Profit & Loss review
• Comparative analysis
• Financial statement preparation
• Management reporting
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## FINANCIAL STATEMENTS & ANALYSIS
Reporting can include:
• Profit & Loss Statement
• Balance Sheet
• Cash Flow Statement
• Comparative financial statements
• Budget vs. Actual
• Monthly trend analysis
• Department or class reporting
• Project or job profitability
• Customized management schedules
• KPI reporting
• Executive summaries
Depending on the engagement, I can also analyze:
• Revenue trends
• Gross margin
• Operating expenses
• Payroll costs
• Vendor spending
• Customer concentration
• Expense increases
• Profitability trends
• Cash-flow trends
• Budget variances
• Working capital
• Accounts Receivable trends
• Accounts Payable trends
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## BUDGETING, CASH FLOW & FINANCIAL MODELING
Services can include:
• Annual and monthly budgeting
• Cash-flow forecasting
• Revenue and expense forecasting
• Payroll forecasting
• Budget-to-actual reporting
• Variance analysis
• Scenario modeling
• Financial modeling
Financial models can incorporate revenue, pricing, sales volume, gross margin, COGS, payroll, headcount, operating expenses, debt, capital expenditures, working capital, cash, growth assumptions, and best-case / expected / downside scenarios.
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## INDUSTRIES SERVED
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT & PROPERTY ACCOUNTING
• Property-level accounting
• Development accounting
• Multi-entity accounting
• Development costs
• Rental income and operating expenses
• Mortgage and loan reconciliation
• Cash-flow reporting
• Lender-related reporting
• Intercompany activity
CONSTRUCTION & CONTRACTORS
• Job costing
• Project accounting
• Contract-cost tracking
• Subcontractor, material, and labor costs
• Project profitability
• Budget vs. Actual
• WIP-related accounting concepts
• Project-level Profit & Loss
LEGAL & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
• General ledger accounting
• Client billing support
• Expense management
• Payroll accounting
• Partner and management reporting
• Financial statement preparation
• Profitability analysis
HEALTHCARE & MEDICAL PRACTICES
• Practice bookkeeping
• Payroll accounting
• Operating-expense analysis
• Monthly financial reporting
• Budgeting
• Cash-flow reporting
• Practice profitability analysis
ENGINEERING & PROJECT-BASED BUSINESSES
• Project accounting
• Job costing
• Labor-related analysis
• Project profitability
• Budgeting
• Forecasting
• Management reporting
MANUFACTURING & DISTRIBUTION
• General accounting
• Purchasing and vendor accounting
• Inventory-related accounting support
• COGS and gross-margin analysis
• Freight and shipping analysis
• Working-capital reporting
• Accounts Receivable and Payable
RETAIL & E-COMMERCE
• Sales reconciliation
• Payment-processor reconciliation
• Merchant-fee accounting
• Inventory-related accounting
• COGS
• Shipping expenses
• Vendor accounting
• Multi-channel activity
• Cash-flow reporting
Additional experience extends across consulting, technology, restaurants, nonprofits, professional services, and other small-to-middle-market businesses.
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## PAYROLL, AP & AR
Payroll support can include:
• Payroll accounting and journal entries
• Payroll reconciliations
• Payroll liability review
• Payroll expense classification
• Employer payroll-tax accounting
Accounts Payable support can include:
• Vendor bill entry
• Expense coding
• AP aging review
• Duplicate bill identification
• Vendor reconciliation
• Month-end AP review
Accounts Receivable support can include:
• Customer invoicing
• Payment application
• AR reconciliation
• Aging review
• Historical cleanup
• Customer balance investigation
• Unapplied payment review
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## MULTI-ENTITY ACCOUNTING
Services can include:
• Separate entity accounting
• Intercompany transactions
• Due-to / due-from accounts
• Intercompany reconciliations
• Entity-level financial statements
• Consolidated reporting support
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## YEAR-END & CPA SUPPORT
Support can include:
• Year-end reconciliations
• Balance Sheet review
• General ledger cleanup
• Fixed-asset schedules
• Loan schedules
• Payroll reconciliation
• Accounts Receivable schedules
• Accounts Payable schedules
• Supporting workpapers
• Financial statement preparation
My role is to help deliver organized accounting records and supporting schedules so your tax professional or outside accountant can work from cleaner information.
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## WHY WORK WITH ME?
My background combines more than two decades of accounting and financial-management experience with extensive graduate education, professional certifications, accounting-system expertise, financial analysis, and business-process experience.
Areas of education and professional credentialing include:
• Accounting
• Finance
• Taxation
• Economics
• Management Accounting
• QuickBooks Online
• QuickBooks Desktop
• QuickBooks Payroll
• Financial reporting
• GAAP
• Financial modeling
• Business analytics
• Internal controls
• ERP/accounting systems
• Business-process improvement
I approach bookkeeping from an accountant's perspective and accounting from a financial-management perspective.
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## WHAT YOU SHOULD EXPECT
✓ Accurate books
✓ Reconciled accounts
✓ Organized accounting records
✓ Timely reporting
✓ Clear communication
✓ Confidentiality
✓ Attention to detail
✓ Financial statements you can understand
✓ Problems identified rather than hidden
✓ Accounting designed to support better decisions
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## ENGAGEMENT OPTIONS
• Monthly bookkeeping
• Weekly bookkeeping
• Catch-up bookkeeping
• QuickBooks cleanup
• Accounting cleanup
• Monthly accounting
• Controller-level review
• Financial statement preparation
• Payroll accounting
• Accounts Payable support
• Accounts Receivable support
• Job costing
• Project accounting
• Financial modeling
• Customized management reporting
• Special accounting projects
• Ongoing or as-needed support
REMOTE SERVICES AVAILABLE.
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## YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO TRUST YOUR NUMBERS.
If your accounting is behind, confusing, inaccurate, disorganized, or simply not providing the information you need to manage your business, reply through Craigslist.
Please include:
• Type of business
• Approximate size of the business
• Accounting software currently used
• Number of business entities
• Approximate monthly transaction volume
• Number of bank and credit-card accounts
• Whether your bookkeeping is currently up to date
• Whether you use payroll
• Your biggest accounting challenge
• What you would like improved
I can then determine whether you need ongoing bookkeeping, accounting cleanup, monthly accounting, Controller-level oversight, financial reporting, or a combination.
BEHIND EVERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS IS A SOLID FINANCIAL FOUNDATION.
CLEAN BOOKS.
CLEAR NUMBERS.
TIMELY REPORTS.
BETTER DECISIONS.
STRONGER BUSINESS.
FOCUS ON GROWING YOUR BUSINESS.
I'LL HANDLE THE NUMBERS.
CONFIDENTIAL • RELIABLE • ACCURATE • PROFESSIONAL