Catch-Up Bookkeeping Services in New York
Getting current in New York means more than filling gaps: every account reconciled period by period, statements restated, and a change log your CPA can follow.
- Books a lender or CPA will accept
- A clear timeline delivered with the quote
- One point of contact for the whole project
Single-member and project-based businesses generate the most tangled backlogs we see. Several income streams, one bank account, personal and business spending interleaved, and a year of activity that has to be separated into things that were never separated in the first place.
What our service covers in New York
Everything below is part of the engagement — no surprise add-ons.
Payroll history reconciliation
Payroll runs, tax deposits and clearing accounts are reconciled for each period so wages and liabilities land where they belong.
Transaction-by-transaction review
Not sampled, not bulk-categorized by rule. Each transaction in the backlog is reviewed and coded correctly.
Vendor and customer rebuild
Where the lists were never maintained, we rebuild them so the restated reports break down by who you actually paid and who paid you.
Opening balance verification
A catch-up is only as good as the balance it starts from. We verify the opening position rather than assuming the last closed period was correct.
Loan and interest split
Loan payments booked as a single expense are separated into principal and interest, so the balance sheet and the profit figure both become true.
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 York businesses choose Feather Accounting
This is a good fit if…
- You have filed on estimates you are not confident in
- A previous bookkeeper left the file in poor shape
- Several years have gone by without a reconciliation
- You want to start monthly bookkeeping but need a clean baseline first
Untangling before reconstructing
The sequence matters. Separating the streams comes before rebuilding the numbers, because a reconstruction built on a merged ledger has to be redone once the separation happens.
We establish what belongs where using invoices, contracts and payment references rather than the bank description alone, which is frequently misleading.
On personal spending mixed into business accounts, we separate cleanly from an agreed date and reconstruct backwards only as far as is genuinely worth it. Exhaustive historical separation costs more than it returns in most cases, and that is a judgement worth making explicitly.
Questions about this service
Anything we have not covered, ask on the call — it is free and there is no follow-up sequence.
Usually the same gap that caused it the first time — nobody owning the monthly close. The handover call covers what to change, and monthly bookkeeping is available if you would rather hand it over.
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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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