Undeposited Funds is a real account doing a real job, but a balance that never goes down means payments got recorded and never deposited. Here is what causes it, what it does to your numbers, and how to clear it without a journal entry.
Small Business Bookkeeping · September 1, 2026
QuickBooks creates Opening Balance Equity on its own, and a balance sitting in it means something never got assigned. Here is what put it there and how to clear it without plugging the difference.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 31, 2026
Six things you can check inside your own QuickBooks file in about twenty minutes. Each one is a setting or a date, not an opinion, so you get a yes or a no.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 31, 2026
Hourly, freelance, firm, national provider and in-house, with the 2026 ranges each one actually quotes, the factors that move you inside them, and the arithmetic that shows when a cheaper headline costs more.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
Unreconciled accounts, a balance in Opening Balance Equity, three versions of the same vendor. Here is how to read the damage in a QuickBooks Online file and the order that repairs it without doing the work twice.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
Months behind on the books is a solvable problem with a known price. Here are the 2026 ranges by depth of backlog, the documents that decide your timeline, and the order the work actually happens in.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
Most owners hire a bookkeeper after something forces the issue, usually a lender or a missed deadline. Here are the triggers to watch, what doing it yourself really costs, and what changes in the first 90 days.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
A bookkeeper records what happened, an accountant explains what it means, and a CPA holds a license that adds audit opinions and unlimited IRS representation. Here is what each one costs and the order to hire them in.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
A reasonable salary is what you would pay someone else to do your job, and the IRS expects it on a W-2 before distributions. What the factors are, why the 60/40 split is a rule of thumb, and what payroll actually involves.
Small Business Bookkeeping · August 19, 2026
Share accountant access to QuickBooks or Xero 48 hours ahead and we will spend twenty minutes going through what is broken, ranked, with what each one costs you. You keep the findings whether or not you work with us.
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