Business Accounting Services
QuickBooks Setup & Cleanup
Professional QuickBooks support for businesses that need a reliable accounting foundation. Montano's Income Tax Services helps organize accounts, correct existing records, and create a cleaner system for ongoing bookkeeping and tax preparation.
What This Service Provides
A cleaner and more useful QuickBooks file.
QuickBooks works best when the company settings, accounts, balances, and transaction categories reflect how the business actually operates. An organized setup helps produce more accurate records and useful financial reports.
Montano's can establish a new QuickBooks file or review an existing file for duplicated transactions, incorrect balances, unreconciled accounts, and classification problems that may affect bookkeeping or tax preparation.
Included in the Service
From initial setup to organized financial records.
Configuration of a new QuickBooks company file using the business structure, accounting method, reporting needs, and available beginning information.
Creation or reorganization of income, expense, asset, liability, equity, and other accounts to better reflect business activity.
Assistance organizing bank and credit-card connections, imported transactions, opening balances, and account-mapping information.
Review of duplicated, missing, uncategorized, or incorrectly classified transactions and corrections based on available records.
Comparison of QuickBooks balances with bank, credit-card, loan, and other statements to identify unresolved differences.
Review of profit-and-loss statements, balance sheets, and other reports to confirm the file is organized for continued bookkeeping and tax preparation.
Common QuickBooks Needs
Support for new, overdue, or disorganized files.
QuickBooks cleanup depends on the number of accounts, transaction volume, age of the records, and condition of the existing file. Corrections are based on the documentation and information available.
The QuickBooks Process
A structured path to cleaner records.
Assess
Review the business needs, existing QuickBooks file, financial accounts, and available records.
Organize
Configure company settings, accounts, balances, and transaction categories.
Correct
Investigate and correct identified transaction, reconciliation, and reporting problems.
Review
Review the cleaned file and financial reports and explain recommended next steps.