Monthly Bookkeeping Cumming, GA

By the 5th of each month, your bank, credit card, merchant, and loan feeds are pulled into QuickBooks Online. Anything that did not auto-import gets uploaded by hand. Then we sort. Each transaction is categorized to the chart of accounts we built for your business, not the generic one QuickBooks shipped you with. A trip to The Home Depot for a bath remodel in Vickery hits Job Materials, not a vague “Supplies” bucket.

By the 10th, every account is reconciled to the matching statement. If the bank says the December 31 balance was $14,628.42, our books say $14,628.42. To the penny. Differences get hunted down, not plugged. By the 15th, you have a packet in your inbox: P&L, balance sheet, A/R aging, A/P aging, and a one-paragraph note about anything we noticed that needs a decision from you.

If you want to talk through it, we get on a 20-minute call. If you want to just read the packet and move on with your week, that works too. Most Cumming small business owners we serve fall into the second camp by month three, the books are running, the reports make sense, and the back office stops being a thing they think about every Sunday night.

If your business does between 50 and 1,500 transactions a month, monthly bookkeeping is almost certainly the right cadence. That covers most of the businesses we work with around Forsyth County: solo trades, salons running a full chair count, ministries, restaurants and food trucks, e-commerce shops doing five to six figures a month on Shopify, and consulting firms with a handful of W-2 staff.

If you are doing fewer than 50 transactions a month (a freelancer with a few clients and a credit card), you might do better with our small business bookkeeping or bookkeeping for freelancers package, which has a lighter scope for lower volume. If you are doing more than 1,500 a month or running tight cash cycles, weekly bookkeeping is usually a better fit so the data does not go stale before you act on it.

Industry matters too. Construction and trades clients almost always need job costing layered in. E-commerce clients need clean Stripe and Shopify reconciliation. Ministries and nonprofits need fund accounting. We have built the chart of accounts and the close workflow for all of them, so you are not paying us to learn your industry on your dime.

Monthly bookkeeping is priced on a fixed monthly fee, not hourly, not by transaction count alone. We quote a number after a free 30-minute discovery call where we look at your bank statement count, your transaction volume, the software stack you use, and any complexity like inventory, multiple entities, or job costing.

Most Cumming small business engagements land somewhere between $375 and $1,200 a month. The fee is locked for the year so there are no surprise invoices. If your business changes meaningfully (you add a second location off Buford Highway, you take on payroll for a new crew, your transaction count doubles), we revisit the fee at renewal, not in the middle of the year.

The fee includes the software where possible. We are a QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor firm, so we can extend our wholesale discount to your subscription. That alone saves most clients $30 to $60 a month versus paying Intuit retail.

We see a lot of Cumming small business owners come to us after a year on a national bookkeeping service, the ones with the slick websites and the team-based support. The complaint is almost always the same. They never talked to the same person twice. The categorization was sloppy. Sales tax filings got missed. By the time they realized it, eight months of cleanup were sitting in front of them.

Local matters. Mimi answers the phone. The team that closes your books in February is the team that closes your books in November. We know your bank. Truist, Bank of America, United Community, Renasant, Pinnacle. We know the quirks of pulling statements from each of them. We know which CPAs in Cumming want their tax-ready packages in PDF and which want QuickBooks accountant access. That continuity shows up in the books.