Portland Books Cleanup - From 'Years Behind' to Tax-Ready in One Engagement.
If your books are months or years behind, you cannot get a loan, you cannot file accurately, and you cannot trust any number in your business. We rebuild your books from your bank and credit card statements to a standard your CPA, your lender, and the IRS will accept - then transition you to clean monthly bookkeeping so it never happens again.
If You Are Not Satisfied, You Don't Pay. Simple.
If you are not completely satisfied with our bookkeeping in your first 90 days - for any reason - we refund every dollar you have paid us. No paperwork. No negotiation. We have never had to honor it. But the guarantee is real.
Behind on Books Is Not a Character Flaw. But It Gets Worse Every Month.
Most business owners who are behind on their books did not set out to get there. They started a business, got busy, and let the books slide for a month. Then two. Then a year. Now they are looking at a backlog that feels impossible, filing extensions they do not want to file, and making financial decisions with no reliable data.
What 'behind on books' actually looks like:
Everything Included in a Books Cleanup Engagement.
- Historical transaction categorization (any time period)
- Multi-month or multi-year account reconciliation
- Chart of accounts cleanup or full rebuild
- Prior period adjusting journal entries
- Sales tax review and reconciliation
- 1099 review for prior periods
- Tax-ready financial statements for past years
- Summary of errors corrected and issues resolved
- Clean handoff to ongoing monthly bookkeeping
How Cleanup Works.
Scoping Call
Review your existing file, identify the period to be cleaned, quote exactly.
Cleanup Execution
Categorize, reconcile, adjust, and rebuild from source documents.
Review & Handoff
Review cleaned books together, confirm accuracy, transition to monthly.
How Books Cleanup Is Priced.
Cleanup engagements are priced by scope - the time period involved, the volume of transactions, and the condition of your existing file. Most cleanups run 4 to 12 weeks depending on how far back we are going. We will quote you exactly after a 20-minute scoping call. There are no hourly billing surprises.
Why Snyders Bookkeeping?
I am Max Snyder. I graduated from Portland State University with a degree in Finance and Supply Chain Management, and I built Snyders Bookkeeping because I kept hearing the same story from small business owners across Portland: "I have a bookkeeper, but I still do not understand my numbers."
That is the problem with most bookkeeping in this town. It treats your books like a compliance task, something to clean up before April. It is not. Your books are the operating system of your business. If you cannot see your margins, your cash position, and your runway in real time, you are guessing. And guessing is expensive.
I built Snyders Bookkeeping around three principles:
"Your numbers should mean something."
Every monthly close comes with plain-English commentary on what changed and why. If a number moved, you will know what caused it.
"Cash flow is not optional."
Most Portland bookkeepers will never produce a cash flow statement or a runway statement. We produce both, monthly, with a 90-day forward forecast. You will know what your cash position will look like before it gets uncomfortable.
"Your CPA should never have to clean up after us."
We coordinate with your tax preparer year-round. Your year-end filing should be quick because everything was right all year.
I am a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and a Certified Bookkeeper. I work exclusively with QuickBooks Online because it is the only platform that gives you and your CPA real-time access to the same numbers. I am based in Happy Valley and serve clients throughout the Portland metro and Southern Washington.
If you are tired of bookkeeping that stops at "your accounts are reconciled," let us talk.
- Max Snyder
Frequently Asked Questions
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