Bookkeeping Services for Business Owners

Closed monthly. By the 10th. Every time.

If Your Books Aren't Closed Monthly, You're Making Decisions Blind.

Most business owners find out about their books six weeks late. Or six months late. Or when their accountant is scrambling to file their return in April. By then the numbers can't be used for anything. You can't plan. You can't spot problems. You can't tell if you're actually making money on the work you're doing.
Late books aren't a small nuisance. They're the reason cash flow surprises you. They're the reason your tax bill isn't predictable. They're the reason you can't compare this month to last month and know what changed.
FM Accounting closes your books by the 10th of every month. Reconciled. Categorized. Delivered with financial statements you can actually read. Same schedule, every month, for as long as you're a client.

What You Get Every Month

Every month with FM as your bookkeeper includes:
Everything runs on our calendar. You don't chase us for the report.

What We Actually Handle

Cleanup of prior periods

If your books are behind. Most new engagements start here.

Monthly reconciliation

Of every bank account, credit card, and loan.

Financial statements

You can hand to a bank, an investor, or your tax preparer without cleaning them up first.

Payroll coordination

We work with your payroll provider (Gusto, ADP, Rippling, or whoever you use) so payroll lands in the books correctly.

Sales tax and multi-state filings

If you sell in multiple states, we track where you owe and file it.

Accounts payable and accounts receivable management

When the scope calls for it.

Year-end close and tax preparer handoff

When it’s time to file, the books are already tax-ready. No delays. No last-minute cleanup.

One point of contact

Who knows your business and picks up when you call.

What We Actually Handle

Cleanup of prior periods

If your books are behind. Most new engagements start here.

Monthly reconciliation

Of every bank account, credit card, and loan.

Financial statements

You can hand to a bank, an investor, or your tax preparer without cleaning them up first.

Payroll coordination

We work with your payroll provider (Gusto, ADP, Rippling, or whoever you use) so payroll lands in the books correctly.

Sales tax and multi-state filings

If you sell in multiple states, we track where you owe and file it.

Accounts payable and accounts receivable management

When the scope calls for it.

Year-end close and tax preparer handoff

When it's time to file, the books are already tax-ready. No delays. No last-minute cleanup.

One point of contact

Who knows your business and picks up when you call.

Who This Is Built For

Bookkeeping becomes worth outsourcing at the point where doing it yourself, or hiring one person to do it in-house, costs more than it saves.
The owners who get the most out of it:
If the business is profitable and the books aren't closed monthly, or are closed but not usable, outsourced bookkeeping pays back the fee.

How It Starts

Step 1

Discovery call

Thirty minutes on your business, your current setup, and what’s not working.
Step 2

Diagnostic

We look at your existing books and the last three months of activity to understand the state of things.
Step 3

Scope and quote

We come back with a fixed monthly fee, a separate cleanup fee if your books need it, and a start date. Everything in writing before you sign.
Step 4

Onboarding and first close

Once you sign, we get access to your accounts and close your first month within 30 days.

Why FM

Closed by the 10th. Every month. If we miss it, we tell you why and what we're doing about it. Most months we don't miss it.
Fixed monthly fee. No hourly billing. No surprise invoices for asking a question.
Bookkeeping, tax prep, and planning are one team. Which means what shows up on your books is already set up correctly for the tax return. Most firms split bookkeeping from tax prep and every year-end becomes a scramble.
One point of contact. Not a support ticket. Not a queue. A real person who knows your business.
Cloud-based, works anywhere. We serve business owners in all 50 states through QuickBooks Online, Xero, or whatever cloud system you're already on.

What It Costs

Bookkeeping runs between $500 and $5,000 a month, depending on the size of the business, transaction volume, number of accounts, number of entities, and how clean the starting point is.
Every engagement is quoted in writing before you sign, with the monthly fee and any one-time cleanup fee spelled out separately. No hidden charges. No hourly billing.
For most owners, the fee is meaningfully less than what a full-time in-house bookkeeper actually costs when you add salary, benefits, PTO, and management time. And the work gets done by a team, not one person who could quit next week.
FAQ's

Answers to Common Questions

Cost, redundancy, and quality. An in-house bookkeeper is one person with one set of skills who takes time off, gets sick, and can quit. Our team has multiple bookkeepers, an accountant, and a CPA reviewing the work, at a fraction of what a full-time hire costs when you add benefits and management overhead.

Whatever you're already on, in most cases. We work in QuickBooks Online, Xero, and a few industry-specific platforms. If you're on desktop software or something we don't support, we'll talk through options during the discovery call.

Yes. Most new engagements start with cleanup. We diagnose what's wrong, quote the cleanup separately from the monthly fee, and get you current before the ongoing work starts.

We coordinate with your payroll provider so payroll lands correctly in the books. Full payroll processing (running the paychecks, filing payroll taxes, direct deposits) is handled by a provider like Gusto or Rippling. We'll help you pick one if you don't already have one.

Yes, if you want us to. Most clients bundle bookkeeping with tax preparation and tax planningso it all sits inside one team. You can also use us for bookkeeping only.

Usually within two weeks of signing. Cleanup engagements take longer depending on how far behind the books are.

No. We work with business owners in all 50 states through cloud-based accounting.
Yes. You have one point of contact who knows your business and picks up when you call.
Yes. Law firms are our deepest specialty. See bookkeeping for law firms for the trust-accounting-aware version.
Yes. Every month you get a short summary explaining what the numbers say, not just what they are. If you want deeper analysis, that's what our tax planning and advisory engagement adds on top.
Yes. We hand off tax-ready books to any preparer. That said, most clients eventually consolidate everything under one roof because the split-vendor version keeps creating year-end problems.
Get Books That Actually Close on Time.
Late books cost you visibility. They cost you tax planning. They cost you sleep. Fixing them is a 30-minute conversation and a written quote. Book a free discovery call. We'll look at your current setup and tell you what it would take to get things running clean.
No commitment. No pressure. Just numbers.