Bookkeeping for Van Nuys businesses

Short answer: A bookkeeper for Van Nuys businesses keeps books for aviation shops, auto businesses, contractors and family retail, closing each month remotely in QuickBooks, Xero and more. Equipment loans follow the lender's schedule, and sales tax on parts is kept apart from income. You get a profit and loss, a balance sheet and a short list of questions.

Van Nuys at work

Van Nuys is one of the Valley's working centers. The Van Nuys Airport, owned by the City of Los Angeles, supports charter operators, maintenance shops, flight schools and the suppliers around them. The streets north and west of the airport hold light industrial buildings: machine shops, cabinet makers, printers, auto body and repair. Van Nuys Boulevard and Sepulveda carry restaurants, markets, dealerships and family-run retail. The Van Nuys Civic Center brings city, county and federal offices, and the lawyers and service firms that work around them.

These are businesses with real equipment, real inventory and payroll. The books need to keep up.

What we handle for Van Nuys businesses

• Equipment loans and leases recorded with the asset and the payment schedule.
• Parts and materials inventory for repair shops and fabricators.
• Job or work order tracking so you see margin per customer job.
• Payroll from your provider booked by wages, taxes and benefits.
• Vendor 1099s for subcontractors and independent mechanics or instructors.
• Sales tax collected on parts and retail kept apart from income.

What Van Nuys owners ask us for

• QuickBooks cleanup: A lift, CNC machine or truck bought on a loan is often expensed in full or missing from the file. We set up the asset and the loan to match the lender's schedule.
• Bank reconciliation: Repair and body shops that take cash for small jobs need daily deposits tied to tickets. Otherwise the shop software and the books never show the same sales.
• Monthly bookkeeping: Fabricators and airport suppliers with inventory and staff get a close every month, with payroll split into wages, taxes and benefits and parts sales kept apart from labor.

City business tax for Van Nuys

Van Nuys is a neighborhood of the City of Los Angeles. Businesses here register with the Office of Finance for a Business Tax Registration Certificate and renew every year by the end of February, based on gross receipts. Owners with worldwide gross receipts of $100,000 or less qualify for the small business exemption when they renew on time. Sales in the city carry the 10.25 percent rate in effect since October 1, 2026.

Shops that sell parts and labor need those two kinds of revenue split, since sales tax applies differently to each. We set that up in the chart of accounts from the start.

Ask your CPA or the CDTFA how sales tax applies to your mix of parts and labor.

Common cleanup jobs in Van Nuys

Many Van Nuys shops have run for years on a mix of a POS or shop system, a checking account and a shoebox for the accountant. The most common cleanup we see is equipment: a lift, a CNC machine or a truck bought on a loan and either expensed in full or never recorded, with every payment booked as an expense. We set up the asset and the loan with the lender's schedule, so interest and principal are split and the balance sheet is right.

The second is cash. Shops that take cash for small jobs need daily deposits matched to tickets, or the sales total in the books will never match the shop software.

How we work

Our team works remotely. We connect your bank and card accounts to your books in QuickBooks, Xero and more, pull reports from your shop or point of sale software, and close the books each month. You get a profit and loss, a balance sheet, and a short list of questions. If you are behind, we rebuild past months first.

Nearby

We also work with businesses in Sherman Oaks, North Hollywood, Panorama City, Lake Balboa, Reseda and North Hills.

• San Fernando Valley
• Sherman Oaks
• North Hollywood
• Woodland Hills

Bookkeeping services in Van Nuys

• Bookkeeping cleanupWhen the books exist but nobody trusts them, cleanup finds what went wrong and fixes it at the source.
• Catch-up bookkeepingMonths behind, or a full year, the missing months get entered and reconciled from your statements.
• Emergency bookkeepingA deadline that will not move and books that are not ready. Here is how the work gets ordered.
• Monthly bookkeepingEvery month categorized, reconciled and closed, so the numbers you look at are numbers you can trust.
• QuickBooks cleanupA QuickBooks file that no longer matches the bank, fixed account by account and month by month.
• QuickBooks bookkeepingQuickBooks Online kept the way it was meant to be used, so the reports it gives you are right.

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