Catch-Up Bookkeeping Services in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Unfiled returns or unreconciled accounts piling up in Philadelphia? We get you current, with restated financials you can actually trust.
- Restated statements for every period we touch
- A clear timeline delivered with the quote
- Books a lender or CPA will accept
Established businesses here often arrive with a backlog measured in years rather than months, sitting on top of decades of accumulated convention. The reconstruction has to continue a tradition rather than impose a new one, or the recovered years will not compare with anything before them.
What our service covers in Philadelphia
Everything below is part of the engagement — no surprise add-ons.
Handover documentation
You get the change log, the decisions that needed judgement and the open items we could not resolve without you.
Uncategorized backlog triage
Whatever has accumulated in uncategorized or suspense gets worked through, assigned where identifiable and listed where it needs your answer.
Owner draw separation
Personal spending run through the business is identified and reclassified as draws, which usually changes the profit figure materially.
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.
Missing period reconstruction
Where months are simply absent, we rebuild them from bank, card and processor statements rather than leaving a gap in the ledger.
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 Philadelphia businesses choose Feather Accounting
This is a good fit if…
- Several years have gone by without a reconciliation
- Bookkeeping stopped when the person doing it left
- You have filed on estimates you are not confident in
- You want to start monthly bookkeeping but need a clean baseline first
Continuing an existing tradition
Before reconstructing anything we work out how the books were previously kept — what the unusual categories meant, which adjustments recurred, what the conventions were.
The backlog is then rebuilt on that basis, so the recovered period sits comfortably beside the years before it. Where the historical treatment was genuinely wrong, we identify it and propose a change at a period boundary rather than correcting it silently inside the reconstruction.
For businesses where the previous approach cannot be established at all, we agree a basis with you explicitly and note the discontinuity, so nobody later mistakes it for a trend.
Questions about this service
Anything we have not covered, ask on the call — it is free and there is no follow-up sequence.
No. Several years behind is routine and we see it every week. The only thing that matters to us is whether the underlying records can still be retrieved, which they usually can.
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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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