Behind on your books? Free catch-up assessment — no obligation.
Months or years behind? We rebuild the backlog and hand it over clean.
It happens the same way every time. A busy quarter, a software migration that half worked, a bookkeeper who left. The longer it sits the worse it feels, and the harder it gets to open the file at all. Most people who call us have been putting off the call for months.
The specifics, rather than a bullet list you have to interpret.
We look at the actual file first — how many months, how many accounts, how much of the history is recoverable. Only then do you get a number. We would rather spend an hour scoping it properly than give you a cheap estimate that doubles halfway through.
Not sampled, not bulk-categorized by rule. Each transaction in the backlog is reviewed and coded correctly, because a rule that was wrong in March will be wrong three hundred more times by December.
We reconcile each bank account, credit card and processor for each period in the backlog. This is where the real errors surface: duplicate deposits, payments recorded twice, transactions that never made it into the file at all.
Long backlogs almost always contain the same charge entered two or three ways, owner draws booked as expenses, and transfers recorded as income — which inflates revenue and the tax you owe on it. All of it gets found and corrected.
You receive a corrected profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow statement for every period we touched, so you can finally see what those years actually looked like rather than what the broken file claimed.
Every correction is documented — what it was, what we changed it to and why. If you are amending returns or answering questions later, that document is what makes it defensible.
Most owners who call us are somewhere between three months and three years behind. Life got busy, the business grew faster than the admin, and now there's a backlog nobody wants to open.
We do this every week. There's no lecture and no judgment — just a plan to get you current.
A complete, CPA-ready hand-off package — and the option to roll onto monthly bookkeeping so the backlog never builds up again.
No ambiguity about what you are paying for. These are the artifacts, and when each one arrives.
Only the first step needs anything from you.
We look at the file together and establish the real scope — months behind, accounts involved, condition of the records. No judgment, we do this every week.
You get a single flat fee for the whole project before any work starts. It does not move unless you ask us to expand the scope.
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.
If that is you, say so on the call. We would rather point you somewhere better than take on work we are not the right firm for.
The honest trade-offs. Plenty of businesses are better off with one of the other two.
| With Feather | Doing it yourself | Hiring in-house | |
|---|---|---|---|
| How it is priced | One fixed fee, quoted after seeing the file | Your weekends, indefinitely | Hourly, uncapped |
| How the backlog is coded | Every transaction reviewed individually | Bulk rules and best guesses | Varies by who you get |
| Documentation of changes | Full change log included | None | Rarely provided |
| What you end up with | Restated statements, CPA-ready | A file you still do not trust | Depends on the engagement |
| Preventing a repeat | Roll straight onto monthly bookkeeping | It happens again | Ends when the engagement ends |
Whichever service you pick, the same bookkeeper handles your account every month — someone who understands how your business actually runs and can spot the things a rotating team never would.
Anything we have not covered, ask on the call — it is free and there is no follow-up sequence.
We have not hit that limit. Several years is routine. What matters more than the number of months is whether the underlying records — bank statements, invoices, receipts — can still be retrieved, and banks will usually go back further than people expect.
Most clients combine two or three. The flat rate covers whatever you pick.
Tell us where things stand and we'll show you exactly what catch-up bookkeeping would look like for your business — with a flat rate and a start date in 20 minutes.