Services
Bookkeeping in Los Angeles
Reliable, ongoing bookkeeping that keeps receipts, statements, and records organized all year, including QuickBooks setup and rebuilding books that have fallen behind. Delivered on a schedule you can count on, not squeezed in during someone's slow week.
Who Is This For
Anyone whose records have stopped being a reliable picture of the business.
- Owners doing their own books and running out of hours for it
- Businesses whose payroll transactions need to reconcile cleanly every month
- Businesses whose accounts have not been reconciled in months
- Anyone starting from a shoebox, a shared drive, or nothing at all
- New businesses that want QuickBooks set up correctly from day one
- Businesses that outgrew a bookkeeper who fell behind
- Anyone who needs clean books before tax work can begin
However far behind your books are, it's a normal starting point. Tell Michelle where things stand.
What's Included
Ongoing Monthly Bookkeeping
- Bank and credit card reconciliation
- Transaction categorization against a chart of accounts that suits you
- Monthly profit and loss, and balance sheet
- A close on a schedule, not when someone gets around to it
QuickBooks Setup and Cleanup
- New file set up properly from the start
- Taking over and cleaning up an existing file
- Fixing a chart of accounts that grew without a plan
- Clearing duplicated transactions and unreconciled balances
Catch-up and Rebuilding
- Reconstructing records from bank and card statements
- Multiple years brought current
- A clean opening balance to work forward from
- Handover into ongoing monthly bookkeeping
Starting from behind is a normal starting point, not a problem. It is often the first step before any tax work can happen.
Catching Up, One Month at a Time
However far behind the books are, catching up looks the same either way: one statement, one month, at a time.
- Records reconstructed from bank and card statements
- Multiple years brought current, in order
- A clean opening balance to build forward from
Credentials
Why an Enrolled Agent Matters Here
Bookkeeping decisions become tax positions. How a transaction is categorized, what counts as an owner draw, which expenses are substantiated: those choices show up on a return months later. Having the books kept by someone who also prepares the return, and who is licensed to defend it before the IRS, means those decisions are made once and made consistently.
Oak Roots is an Intuit QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Gold Tier. Oak Roots works in QuickBooks every day, at a certification level held, not just claimed.
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Frequently asked questions
Common Questions
Yes, and this is a large part of the work. Michelle regularly starts with clients whose records need rebuilding from bank statements before anything else can happen. It is a normal starting point.
Yes. Oak Roots uses QuickBooks for invoicing and payments, can set up a new file correctly, and can take over and clean up an existing one. Oak Roots is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Gold Tier certified.
There is no such thing. Multiple years can be reconstructed from bank and card statements. The work is larger, but it is the same work.
Not always. If you have very few transactions, quarterly organization can be enough. Monthly bookkeeping starts to earn its cost once you have employees, inventory, sales tax obligations, or enough transaction volume that reconstructing the year at filing time becomes expensive.
It depends on the number of months and how complete the source records are. Michelle will scope it and give you a timeline and a fee before starting.
Bank and credit card statements for the period, access to your accounting file if one exists, and a short conversation about how the business actually operates. Michelle will send a specific list based on your situation.
Let's Talk Today!
Ready to take accounting off your to-do list? Tell us what you need help with, and we'll work out the right next step together.
michelle@oakrootsaccounting.com