Catch-Up Bookkeeping in Phoenix, AZ
We scope the real backlog on a free call before quoting, so the fixed fee reflects what is actually there rather than a guess.
- Restated statements for every period we touch
- Optional monthly bookkeeping once you are current
- Handed over CPA-ready with a full change log
Trade businesses tend to fall behind in the same season every year. The work arrives, crews grow, and the paperwork waits until it is cold enough to sit down with it. By then several months of subcontractor payments and material purchases need sorting, and nobody can recall which job half of them belonged to.
What our service covers in Phoenix
Everything below is part of the engagement — no surprise add-ons.
Sales tax figure preparation
We prepare the corrected sales tax figures for each backlog period and hand them to your CPA or tax preparer. We do not file the returns ourselves.
Payroll history reconciliation
Payroll runs, tax deposits and clearing accounts are reconciled for each period so wages and liabilities land where they belong.
Restated financial statements
You get a corrected profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow for every period, so you finally see what those years looked like.
Owner draw separation
Personal spending run through the business is identified and reclassified as draws, which usually changes the profit figure materially.
Documented change log
Every correction recorded — what it was, what it became and why — so amended returns are defensible later.
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 Phoenix businesses choose Feather Accounting
This is a good fit if…
- Several years have gone by without a reconciliation
- You have a filing deadline coming and the books are not ready
- A lender or buyer has asked for statements you cannot produce
- Growth outpaced the admin and the books fell behind
Reconstructing the busy months
The hard part of a trade catch-up is rarely the bank feed. It is attribution — working out which job a load of material or a week of subcontracted labour belonged to, months after the site closed.
We work backwards from the records that do survive: supplier statements, job files, the invoices that went out. Where a cost genuinely cannot be attributed, we say so rather than guessing, because a confident wrong allocation is worse than an acknowledged gap.
Once the backlog is closed we set the structure up so the next busy season records itself as it happens instead of accumulating for the winter.
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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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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