Bookkeeping and Monthly Close in Chicago, IL
We keep records CPA-ready all year, so tax time becomes a hand-off rather than a scramble to reconstruct twelve months.
- The same dedicated bookkeeper every month
- A second reviewer before anything reaches you
- A flat monthly rate, quoted before we start
A lot of the businesses we take on here are second or third generation — manufacturers, freight brokers, restaurants, trades. The books usually work, in the sense that someone has been keeping them for twenty years. What they often lack is any written record of why anything is done the way it is done.
What our service covers in Chicago
Everything below is part of the engagement — no surprise add-ons.
Payroll journal entries
Wages, taxes and employer costs posted from your payroll provider each run, so the profit figure carries the true cost of employment.
Fixed asset register
Purchases that should be capitalized rather than expensed are identified and tracked, so the balance sheet reflects what the business actually owns.
Cash flow snapshot
A short view of what came in, what went out and what is committed, so a tight month is visible before it becomes a problem.
Document storage
Receipts and statements filed against the transactions they support, so the evidence is there when a lender or an auditor asks.
Onboarding handover
Roughly a week to connect feeds, build or clean the chart of accounts and agree what belongs in your monthly pack.
What happens after you get in touch
Only the first step needs anything from you.
Tell us where things stand
A 20-minute call covering your transaction volume, how many accounts are in play and how far behind (if at all) things are. You get a flat monthly rate on that call.
We take over the file
Read-only feeds get connected, the chart of accounts is built or cleaned up, and we agree what belongs in your monthly pack. Roughly a week end to end.
It just runs
Transactions are categorized as they arrive, accounts reconcile monthly, and your reports land by the 10th. When something needs a decision, your bookkeeper calls you.
Why Chicago businesses choose Feather Accounting
This is a good fit if…
- Personal and business spending have started to blur together
- You want your CPA to stop billing for cleanup first
- You need lender-ready numbers on a predictable schedule
- Your current bookkeeper changes every few months
When the system lives in one person's head
Long-established businesses tend to accumulate conventions. A particular cost always goes to a particular account for a reason somebody knew in 2009. It works until that person retires, and then nobody can reproduce a prior year.
We document the treatment as we take the work over, so the reasoning survives the handover. That is usually more valuable than any restructuring, because the existing approach is often perfectly sound and just undocumented.
Where something genuinely needs changing, we change it at a period boundary and note what changed, so the comparison to last year still means something.
Questions about this service
Anything we have not covered, ask on the call — it is free and there is no follow-up sequence.
No. Everything is month to month. If you want to stop, give us 30 days and we hand over a complete, current set of books plus the supporting documentation.
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Get your free consultation
Tell us about your business and we'll show you how we can simplify your QuickBooks bookkeeping.
What you get
- Free 15-minute consultation
- No long-term contracts
- Dedicated QuickBooks expert
- Books delivered monthly, on time
- Flat-rate, transparent pricing
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Let's get your books current
Tell us where your books stand today. In 20 minutes you will have a flat rate, a start date and a plan — whether or not you hire us.
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