Cleanup & Catch-Up
Behind or messy? We get your books current and correct first.
There are two different problems, and most businesses have both. Catch-up means the books are behind — months of transactions never processed. Cleanup means the books exist but are wrong — unreconciled accounts, duplicates, miscoded categories, off opening balances, or a balance sheet that does not make sense. We handle both: we process old periods, reconcile every account, fix the coding, clean the chart of accounts, review AR/AP, correct the balance sheet, and validate the reports — so you can move forward on numbers you trust.
What’s included
What this service includes
- ✓Catch-up of behind or missing periods
- ✓Bank, credit card, and loan reconciliations
- ✓Re-categorization of miscoded transactions
- ✓Investigation of uncategorized & suspense items
- ✓Duplicate transaction and entry removal
- ✓Clearing Undeposited Funds and Opening Balance Equity
- ✓Chart of accounts review and de-duplication
- ✓AR and AP aging review and correction
- ✓Balance sheet review and adjusting entries
- ✓Validated P&L, balance sheet, and reconciliation reports
How a cleanup actually works
A proper cleanup follows a sequence — you cannot fix coding before accounts are reconciled, and you should not touch tax-filed periods casually. This is the path we follow.
- Diagnostic review — report the state of the books (no changes made)
- Protect prior periods — lock or adjust already-filed years
- Reconcile every bank, card, and loan account to statements
- Fix transaction coding and resolve uncategorized items
- Clean and de-duplicate the chart of accounts
- Review and correct AR and AP aging
- Fix balance sheet accounts and post adjusting entries
- Validate financials and hand off a clean baseline
How your fee is scoped
Pricing starts at $300 per month you are behind, with a $750 minimum project fee, and is finalized as a fixed quote from your free diagnostic — not hourly billing. The exact number reflects these drivers; you get one number upfront, before any work starts.
- How many months you are behind
- Average monthly transaction volume
- Number of bank, card, and loan accounts
- Current books-health score (from your diagnostic)
- Complexity — payroll, inventory, sales tax, or multi-entity
Why cleanup comes first
Ongoing bookkeeping built on unreconciled accounts, miscoded history, or unexplained balances simply propagates the problem — and it surfaces at the worst possible time, during a tax filing, fundraise, or audit. A proper cleanup resets the baseline so every month afterward starts from numbers you can trust.
Best for
New clients whose books are behind, were poorly maintained, or have never had a real reconciliation — before moving onto a monthly plan.
Start with a clean, reconciled baseline.
Run the free diagnostic and we will give you a fixed cleanup quote — from $300 per month behind.