Client accounting services
Client accounting services for business owners.
Where most firms stop is where the next invoice starts. Your entity return and your personal return sit inside the monthly fee at every level below — not quoted separately in February.
One engagement. Four depths.
Essential bookkeeping
Transaction categorization, bank and credit card reconciliations, and a monthly profit and loss statement and balance sheet you can actually read. For owners whose volume is light and whose questions are few.
Full-service accounting
We run the back office — accounts payable and receivable, payroll processing or oversight, sales tax filings and 1099s, an accrual-basis month-end close, an annual reasonable compensation review, and a monthly call about what the numbers mean.
Controller services
Budget against actual, a rolling 13-week cash flow forecast, a KPI dashboard with class tracking, a documented close process, and quarterly planning meetings. For owners who need the numbers to make decisions, not to file.
Fractional CFO
Financial modeling and projections, pricing and margin analysis, banking and financing relationships, board and investor reporting, and support through a financing, a buyout, or a sale.
Fees are fixed monthly and quoted after the diagnostic, once we've seen your transaction volume, your entities, and the state of the books. Controller and fractional CFO engagements are scoped individually.
What "tax included" means
Your entity return. Your personal return. Every level.
Quarterly estimates handled. The planning conversation before December instead of the invoice after April. There's no tax package to choose, because the level you're on already gives you more access than the top tier at most firms.
How a monthly engagement works.
We find out where you stand, in writing — your compensation position, your projected tax, and what's still moveable this year. Credited against what comes next.
Historical cleanup, chart of accounts rebuilt, systems set up. Quoted once and billed once, before the monthly engagement starts.
Books closed, returns filed, estimates handled — and a call each month with someone who has watched your numbers all year.
Who does the work.
Your books are prepared by our accounting team and reviewed by a CPA before anything leaves the firm. Your monthly call is with a principal — the person accountable for the work, not a coordinator relaying it.
If your books need a return filed on top of them, that's the same engagement and the same firm. If you only need the return, the annual packages are here.
Common questions.
Do you do the bookkeeping and the tax return, or just one?
Both, in the same engagement. Every level of monthly accounting includes your business entity return and your personal return — they aren't quoted separately. That's the difference between us and a bookkeeping service that hands you a file in January, or a tax firm that won't touch the books.
How much does monthly accounting cost for a small business?
It depends on transaction volume, how many entities and bank accounts you have, whether we run payroll, and how far behind the books are. Fees are fixed monthly and quoted in writing after the diagnostic — never hourly, and never a surprise on the invoice. Most owner-operated businesses in the $1M to $10M range land in a predictable band, and we'll tell you where before you commit.
What's the difference between a bookkeeper and client accounting services?
A bookkeeper records what happened. Client accounting services means a closed, reconciled set of books every month, plus payroll, sales tax, 1099s, the returns, quarterly estimates, and a conversation about what the numbers mean. The distinction shows up in March, when one of those produces a filing-ready trial balance and the other produces a cleanup project.
Do I need a controller or a fractional CFO?
Controller work is about producing reliable numbers on a schedule — budget against actual, cash forecasting, a documented close. Fractional CFO work is about using them: modeling, margin analysis, banking relationships, and transaction support. If you can't answer "can I afford this hire" without guessing, you need the first. If you're pricing a deal or preparing to sell, you need the second.
Do you work with businesses outside Oregon?
Yes. The firm is based in Oregon and most clients are in the Portland area, but the work is done remotely and multi-state filing is routine. Oregon CAT and Portland-area local business taxes are handled in-house, which matters if you're here.
One firm, before and after the filing.
Start with the diagnostic. What it finds decides the rest.