QuickBooks Cleanup and Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Behind on your books? We help businesses clean up inaccurate records and bring their books up to date.
Falling behind on your books happens: a busy season, a staffing change, or simply not having the right support in place. The result is messy records, missed deductions, and growing anxiety around tax deadlines.
We take a structured approach to cleanup and catch-up work: reviewing historical transactions, identifying errors, reconciling accounts, and bringing your books up to date accurately and efficiently.
Once the cleanup is complete, we help you put a strong foundation in place so your books stay current and organized going forward.
Who This Is For
Businesses and property managers who are months or years behind, whose books were kept by someone who left, or whose numbers no longer match the bank. CPA firms also send us client files that need a cleanup before tax work can start.
Our Key Offerings
Review & Organize Historical Data
Thorough review of past transactions to identify gaps, duplicates, and miscategorizations across all accounts.
Identify & Correct Errors
Systematic error identification and correction across your general ledger, bank accounts, and financial statements.
Update & Reconcile Past Periods
Catch-up bookkeeping for all outstanding months, bringing every period up to date and fully reconciled.
Stop Problems Recurring
Workflow recommendations and process improvements to prevent the same issues from recurring.
Prepare Clean Reports
Delivery of accurate financial statements covering the cleaned-up periods, ready for your CPA or tax preparer.
What You Get at the End
Every account reconciled for every period we cover, bank and credit cards included.
Corrected financial statements for the cleaned-up periods, ready for your CPA or tax preparer.
A documented trail of the corrections we made, so your CPA can see what changed and why.
Workflow recommendations so the same problems do not come back, and the option to keep us on for monthly bookkeeping.
Specialist Cleanups
Rental books have their own failure points. For a 150-property vacation rental manager we reviewed 18 months of owner statements and corrected $24,000 in errors. For another manager we ran a 48-month forensic reconciliation of an escrow account where guest deposits had been mixed with operating cash, and the state audit that followed found nothing.
If your rentals need ongoing help after the cleanup, see vacation rental bookkeeping.
How It Works
- 01
Assessment
We review the current state of your books to scope the cleanup and identify priority areas.
- 02
Cleanup & Correction
We work through historical periods systematically, correcting errors, filling gaps, and reconciling all accounts.
- 03
Future-Proofing
We deliver clean financial reports and put processes in place to keep your books current and accurate going forward.
Results From Clients
Written up from real engagements, with the numbers from each.
150-Property Portfolio: $24K Statement Errors Eliminated
92% fewer disputesEliminated $24,000 in Annual Statement Errors
Read Case StudyEscrow Reconciliation: $87K Compliance Crisis Averted
$87K escrow liability identified$87,000 Compliance Crisis Averted Through Forensic Reconciliation
Read Case StudyFrequently Asked Questions
As far as the records go. Our longest written-up cleanup covered 48 months of bank transactions.
Yes. We work in QuickBooks Online and Xero, among other ledgers.
That is the point of it. You get reconciled accounts and corrected financial statements for each cleaned-up period, ready for your CPA or tax preparer.
Access to your accounting file and to bank and card statements for the periods we are cleaning up. We review the current state first to scope the work and agree priorities.
We put processes in place to keep the books current. Many clients then move to monthly bookkeeping so they never fall behind again.