A bookkeeper for Los Angeles businesses
Monthly books, cleanup and catch-up in QuickBooks or Xero, kept by people who answer your questions.
- QuickBooks and XeroOnline books, kept current
- Monthly, cleanup, catch-upFrom one month behind to years
- Across Los Angeles CountyFrom the Westside to the San Gabriel Valley
Where do your books stand?
Behind, messy or almost current, the first step is the same: tell a bookkeeper what you have. Here is what happens next.
How it works
Three steps
Tell us where your books stand
Which months are done, which software you use, and what has fallen behind.
A bookkeeper reviews them
We look at your accounts and tell you which help fits: monthly, catch-up or cleanup.
Your books get current
Then we reconcile them every month, so tax time is not a scramble.
What we do with your books
Most owners in Los Angeles did not start a business to match bank lines to receipts. The work still has to happen every month, or it piles up until a tax deadline, a loan application or a partner asks for numbers you cannot produce.
- 01Bookkeeping cleanupWhen the books exist but nobody trusts them, cleanup finds what went wrong and fixes it at the source.
- 02Catch-up bookkeepingMonths behind, or a full year, the missing months get entered and reconciled from your statements.
- 03Emergency bookkeepingA deadline that will not move and books that are not ready. Here is how the work gets ordered.
- 04Monthly bookkeepingEvery month categorized, reconciled and closed, so the numbers you look at are numbers you can trust.
- 05QuickBooks cleanupA QuickBooks file that no longer matches the bank, fixed account by account and month by month.
- 06QuickBooks bookkeepingQuickBooks Online kept the way it was meant to be used, so the reports it gives you are right.
- 07Xero bookkeepingXero reconciliation, rules and month end kept current, by bookkeepers who work in Xero every week.
- 08Bank reconciliationIf the books and the bank disagree, every other report is wrong. Reconciliation is where accuracy starts.
Neighborhood by neighborhood
We work remotely, so the neighborhood changes the local rules and the kind of business, not the service.
The City
Westside
Eastside
Gateway Cities
South Bay
How it starts
A short call
Tell a bookkeeper what software you use, how many accounts you have and how far behind things are.
A look at the books
With read-only access, the team checks what is reconciled, what is missing and what was coded wrong.
A plan in plain words
You hear what needs fixing, what monthly work looks like and what the team needs from you.
The work
Cleanup or catch-up first if needed, then a steady monthly close.
Why owners switch to a bookkeeping team
A part-time bookkeeper can be great until they move on, and the knowledge of your books leaves with them. A team keeps notes on your accounts, so the work carries on when someone is out.
You also stop being the person who explains the same transfer every month. Rules and notes live in the file, and questions come to you in one batch, not one at a time.
Who does the work
Los Angeles Bookkeeper is an independent site. When you ask for a call, your request goes to our bookkeeping partner, a bookkeeping team based in Southern California. The partner's team does the work and signs any agreement with you directly. You see their name before you agree to anything, so there are no surprises.
Who we work with
Every trade keeps its books a little differently. Each page covers what matters in yours.
Questions owners ask
Short answers. Ask a bookkeeper for the long ones.
Do you work in person in Los Angeles?
The work is done remotely through QuickBooks Online or Xero and your bank feeds. Most owners prefer that, because nothing has to be dropped off and questions are answered in writing or on a call.
Which software do you use?
QuickBooks Online and Xero. If you are on QuickBooks Desktop or spreadsheets, ask on the call; moving to an online file is often part of a cleanup.
Can you file my taxes?
The focus is books your CPA can file from. If you do not have a CPA, ask on the call and the partner team will tell you what they can help with.
How much does it cost?
It depends on how many accounts you have, how many transactions run through them and how far behind the books are. The team talks pricing with you after looking at your file.