From Backlog to CPA-Ready in New Orleans
Months or years behind on the books in New Orleans? We rebuild the backlog properly, reconcile every account and hand it over CPA-ready with a full change log.
- Read-only access — we never move money
- Transfers no longer counted as income
- Every account reconciled, period by period
Hospitality businesses fall behind in season, which is exactly when the transaction volume is heaviest. The backlog is therefore concentrated in the months that matter most commercially, and it usually arrives tangled with payroll records that need more care than ordinary wages.
What our service covers in New Orleans
Everything below is part of the engagement — no surprise add-ons.
Transfer cleanup
Money moved between your own accounts is a common source of phantom income. We identify transfers across the backlog and stop them inflating revenue.
Statement retrieval guidance
Banks hold history further back than most owners expect. We tell you exactly what to request and from whom so the reconstruction can go as far back as it needs to.
Period-end close
Each reconstructed period is closed properly rather than left open, so the next one starts from a fixed position.
Prior-year comparison rebuild
Once the periods are restated we rebuild the comparatives, so you can finally see the trend across the years that were missing.
Period-by-period reconciliation
Every bank account, credit card and processor is reconciled for each period, which is where the real errors surface.
What happens after you get in touch
Only the first step needs anything from you.
Free assessment call
We look at the file together and establish the real scope — months behind, accounts involved, condition of the records. No judgment.
One fixed quote
A single flat fee for the whole project before any work starts. It does not move unless you ask us to expand the scope.
We rebuild, then hand over
The backlog is reconstructed period by period, reconciled and documented. At the end you get corrected statements, the change log and a file your CPA can work from.
Why New Orleans businesses choose Feather Accounting
This is a good fit if…
- You have multiple entities and only one is up to date
- You have filed on estimates you are not confident in
- Personal and business spending have run through one account
- A lender or buyer has asked for statements you cannot produce
The heaviest months are the missing ones
A restaurant behind since the busy period has its highest-volume months unreconciled, and those are the months whose numbers would actually inform a decision.
We reconstruct period by period from sales system data, supplier statements and bank activity, reconciling each before moving on. Where the three disagree, the difference is usually several separate causes rather than one, and they have to be separated to be resolved.
Payroll for tipped staff needs its detail rebuilt rather than reduced to net figures, because the detail is what gets asked about afterwards.
Questions about this service
Anything we have not covered, ask on the call — it is free and there is no follow-up sequence.
Each entity gets its own assessment and its own quote, since they are rarely behind by the same amount or in the same way. We keep the treatment consistent across them.
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- No long-term contracts
- Dedicated QuickBooks expert
- Books delivered monthly, on time
- Flat-rate, transparent pricing
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