North Shore Bookkeeping offers a wide range of accounting and bookkeeping services for small business owners.

Bookkeeping and accounting services

General Ledger maintenance and write-up

This service usually includes monthly maintenance of your books, which consists of bank and credit card reconciliation, accounts payable and receivable review and reconciliation, trial balance maintenance, inventory maintenance, job costing (if applicable), and merchant statement reconciliation. As part of this service, we can also issue reminders for outstanding customer invoices and deal with outstanding vendor bills.

Catch-up accounting, book reorganization and set up

If you are behind on keeping your income and expenses in order, we will gather all of your paperwork and using both Excel and QuickBooks, get your books up-to-date. This service includes either cleaning up your existing files, or building an accounting system from the ground up. We will set up your vendor and customer lists, create a chart of accounts suitable for your business and categorize your income and expenses in a proper fashion.

Payroll services available upon request

Even though we advise using payroll service providers for all your payroll needs, we can set up payroll in QuickBooks and train you to use it properly.

Specialized services

Preliminary paperwork preparation at tax time for your accountant

We can get your books organized at tax time! Similar to book reorganization and catch-up accounting, we will gather your paperwork, categorize and analyze your income and expenses to make it easier on you and your accountant! We can also work directly with your accountant to make your life easier during this often stressful time!

Assistance for individuals and businesses undergoing audits

Individuals undergoing audits often times need help sorting through the paperwork and organizing it in a way that makes sense for the auditors. We lend our accounting expertise and superb organizational skills when you need it most.

Financial packages for banks and lending institutions

Most financial institutions require an income statement and a balance sheet in order to consider a business owner for a loan or a line of credit. We create those documents for you and help get them to the bank in a timely fashion.

QuickBooks Training

Hands-on QuickBooks training for new users and those who need to know more about the functions of the accounting software in daily business operations.

Forecasting/Budgeting

Forecasting and budgeting are basic financial tools that help a business allocate resources, evaluate performance, and formulate plans. We use QuickBooks, Excel and our accounting expertise to create a budget or forecast that meets your business needs.