Small Business Bookkeeping Cumming, GA

Most of the businesses we serve in Cumming, Forsyth County, and Cherokee County fall into one of three sizes. Owner-only or owner-plus-one (revenue under $250k, simple structure, mostly personal liability). Small team (three to ten employees, $250k to $2M in revenue, a defined service area, and a little operational complexity). Established small business (10 to 40 employees, $2M to $10M in revenue, a manager between the owner and the line). Each of these wants a different bookkeeping setup, and we tailor accordingly.

What ties them together is that none of them need a full-time controller, a CFO, or an accounting team. They need one trusted firm to handle the back office reliably so the owner can focus on the work that actually drives revenue. That is the niche we built Fearless Bookkeeping around.

What does not fit our practice: businesses that want a $99 a month fully-automated bookkeeping app with no human review (the cleanup we have to do later is not worth it for either of us); businesses with revenue above $25M (you need a real CFO at that scale); and businesses that want hourly billing with no fixed-fee predictability (we run on flat monthly fees so you can budget cleanly).

By the 5th of each month we have started the close. By the 15th, you receive a tax-ready financial statements packet for the prior month: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash position, accounts receivable aging, accounts payable aging, and a one-page summary of anything notable that came up during the close. We also leave QuickBooks accountant access open for your CPA so they can pull anything they need without involving you.

Throughout the month, we are reachable by email, text, or phone for the random questions that come up. Should this transaction be coded as job materials or office supplies? Can I deduct the mileage from the Vickery jobsite to Home Depot? Should I send this big invoice now or wait until next month? Most questions get answered same business day, often within an hour during business hours.

At year end, we close the books cleanly, prepare the 1099s, package tax-ready financial statements, and hand off to your CPA. There is no separate fee for any of it; year-end is included in the monthly engagement.

Trades and construction (general contractors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, painters, landscapers): job costing in QuickBooks, subcontractor 1099 tracking, progress billing, retainage. We currently work in JobTread for construction, Jobber for trades, and Skimmer for pool service businesses alongside QuickBooks.

Salons, barbershops, and personal care: booth rent versus commission accounting, multi-stylist payroll, product COGS versus service revenue, tip reporting. Most of these clients run on Square or Booker for POS, which we integrate cleanly into QuickBooks.

Specialty retail and e-commerce: inventory categorization, platform deposits, merchant fees, sales tax support, and clean channel-level reporting for Shopify, eBay, Square, and in-store sales.

E-commerce and eBay/Shopify sellers: Stripe, Shopify Payments, PayPal, eBay payouts, and Shopify reconciliation; multi-state sales tax via TaxJar or Avalara; inventory tracking when needed.

Faith-based and ministry: fund accounting basics inside QuickBooks Online, designated giving tracking, restricted versus unrestricted funds, board-ready monthly reporting. Mimi has a personal heart for this category and many of our clients fall in it.

Small business bookkeeping starts at $375 a month for the simplest engagements (sole proprietor, one bank account, one credit card, under 75 transactions a month, no payroll, no sales tax, no inventory). Most Cumming small business engagements land between $475 and $1,200 a month based on transaction volume, number of accounts, and any add-on services like payroll, AP, AR, or sales tax.

Pricing is fixed monthly and locked for the year so there are no surprise invoices. If your business changes meaningfully during the year (you add a second location, 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.

Add-ons (payroll processing, accounts payable management, accounts receivable management, sales tax filing) are quoted separately and can be added or removed at any time. You only pay for what you actually use.