J3I Solutions provides QuickBooks cleanup and catch-up bookkeeping for businesses with incomplete, outdated, or inaccurate accounting records.
Whether you're several months behind, your accounts haven't been properly reconciled, your balance sheet contains old or unexplained balances, or you simply aren't confident in your financial reports, we'll evaluate your books and determine what needs to be corrected.
With more than 20 years of accounting experience, J3I Solutions approaches cleanup projects from an accounting perspective—not simply transaction categorization.
Serving businesses throughout Southern California and remotely across the United States.
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Your Profit & Loss can look reasonable while problems remain elsewhere in the books.
Your QuickBooks file may need cleanup if:
If you're experiencing any of these issues, a cleanup review can help determine what needs to be corrected.
Every cleanup is different, so J3I Solutions first evaluates the condition of your books before determining the appropriate scope.
Depending on what we find, cleanup services may include:
The goal isn't simply to make QuickBooks look cleaner. It's to improve the accuracy and reliability of the underlying accounting records.
Falling behind happens.
Business owners are busy running their businesses, employees change, accounting responsibilities get transferred, documents go missing, or bookkeeping simply doesn't get completed consistently.
J3I Solutions can help bring your accounting current.
Catch-up bookkeeping may include completing missing transaction activity, reconciling bank and credit card accounts, reviewing outstanding items, correcting accounting issues, and bringing your books through the most recent reporting period.
Once your books are current, we can also discuss ongoing monthly bookkeeping if you'd prefer not to fall behind again.
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A clean Profit & Loss doesn't necessarily mean your books are accurate.
The Balance Sheet can reveal accounting problems that have accumulated over months or even years.
We may review accounts such as:
Old balances aren't automatically deleted simply because they don't look right. We work to understand what created the balance and determine the appropriate accounting treatment based on the information available.
Payroll is a common source of accounting discrepancies.
Even when employees have been paid correctly through the payroll provider, the payroll activity recorded in QuickBooks may not accurately reflect wages, employer taxes, deductions, liabilities, or payments.
J3I Solutions can review payroll reports against the general ledger and assist with:
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If your CPA or tax professional has requested cleaner books, reconciliations, supporting schedules, or accounting corrections, J3I Solutions can help prepare the accounting records.
Depending on the engagement, we can:
Our goal is to provide your tax professional with cleaner, more organized accounting records.
J3I Solutions does not prepare or sign income tax returns.
Cleanup projects are not priced solely by the number of months you're behind.
Two businesses that are each six months behind can require completely different amounts of work.
Before providing a cleanup quote, we consider factors such as:
Once we understand the condition of the books, we can determine the appropriate scope and provide pricing for the cleanup.
The appropriate cleanup period depends on the condition of the books and the reason for the cleanup. We can evaluate prior months or years when necessary and determine what periods should be reviewed.
Often, yes. A difference can result from missing or duplicate transactions, incorrect beginning balances, deleted or changed reconciled transactions, incorrectly recorded transfers, outstanding items, or other reconciliation issues.
We first identify what is causing the difference before making corrections.
Yes. A Profit & Loss may appear reasonable even when Balance Sheet accounts contain unreconciled, outdated, or incorrect balances.
That's one reason our cleanup process isn't limited to reviewing income and expenses.
Yes. Payroll accounting cleanup and reconciliation is one of the areas J3I Solutions can review as part of a cleanup engagement.
Yes. With your authorization, J3I Solutions can coordinate with your CPA or tax professional regarding accounting records and adjustments related to our engagement.
Not necessarily.
Some clients hire J3I Solutions for a one-time cleanup, while others transition into ongoing monthly bookkeeping or controller-level accounting support afterward.
You don't need to know exactly what's wrong before contacting us.
Tell us what you're seeing, how far behind the books may be, and what you're trying to accomplish. We'll evaluate the accounting situation and determine the appropriate next steps.
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