Bookkeeping Cleanup Services: Start Fresh with Clarity

Bookkeeping cleanup is quoted as a flat one-time fee based on how many months are affected, transaction volume, and the severity of the errors. Industry-wide, cleanup projects commonly range from a few hundred dollars to $2,000 or more depending on scope. After a free diagnostic review of your accounts, we give you a fixed quote before any work begins, so you never get an hourly bill that keeps growing.

Most cleanups take between 1 and 4 weeks depending on how many months of records are involved and how quickly we receive bank statements and supporting documents. A few months of light cleanup can often be finished within a week, while multi-year rebuilds take longer. We give you a specific timeline with your flat-fee quote, and you get progress updates throughout.

There is no limit. We have handled everything from a few messy months to multiple years of unrecorded or unreconciled books. Even if you have no usable records and we are rebuilding from bank statements, it is fixable. Multi-year catch-up projects are common before tax filing deadlines, loan applications, or business sales, and we prioritize the years that matter most for your immediate deadline first.

Common signs your books need a cleanup: your bank balance does not match QuickBooks, your profit and loss shows numbers that feel wrong, you have negative balances or large uncategorized entries, accounts have not been reconciled in months, or your tax preparer keeps asking questions you cannot answer. If any of those sound familiar, a diagnostic review will tell you exactly what is broken and what it costs to fix.

Yes, the diagnostic review of your books is completely free. We examine your accounts, identify unreconciled accounts, miscategorized transactions, and balance sheet issues, and send you a written summary of what needs fixing along with a flat-fee cleanup quote. There is no obligation to proceed, and the findings are yours to keep either way.

When your cleanup is complete, you receive fully reconciled bank and credit card accounts, a corrected chart of accounts, accurate financial statements for every period covered, and a summary report of what we fixed and why. Your books will be tax-ready and accurate going forward, and most clients transition straight into monthly bookkeeping so they never fall behind again.