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title: "What an engagement looks like | Ledgerbrook"
source: https://ledgerbrook.com/results/
description: "Illustrative before-and-after examples showing how a cleanup, catch-up or monthly-close engagement gets scoped and billed."
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Results

# What an engagement looks like

Three examples, same structure every time: how far behind the file was, what was actually wrong with it, how many business days the fix took, and what it cost.

e-commerce retail

## Online retailer: five months of marketplace payouts miscoded

Illustrative example

Five months of netted marketplace payouts and unmatched refunds, corrected in six business days before a monthly close. [Read the full example](/results/ecommerce-monthly-catchup/)

Months behind

Flagged: 5

Days to fix

Settled: 6

Engagement

Cleanup

Cost

$495

fixed fee for 5 months of cleanup

[Cleanup: scope and rate](/quickbooks-cleanup/)

### What was wrong

- Marketplace payout fees netted against sales instead of recorded separately
- Customer returns and refunds left unmatched to the original sale
- Inventory received but not yet paid for was missing from accounts payable

### Uncategorized transactions, to zero

Uncategorized transactions by review period, falling from 210 to 0 across 4 checkpoints.

Uncategorized transactions remaining, by review period

| Checkpoint | Uncategorized |
| --- | --- |
| Day 1 | 210 |
| Day 3 | 95 |
| Day 5 | 30 |
| Day 6 | 0, settled |

general contracting

## General contractor: nine months of miscoded job costs

Illustrative example

A general contractor's nine months of miscoded job costs and unreconciled loans, cleaned up in eight business days. [Read the full example](/results/contractor-cleanup/)

Months behind

Flagged: 9

Days to fix

Settled: 8

Engagement

Cleanup

Cost

$713

fixed fee for 9 months of cleanup, 20% off for a backlog of 6 months or more

[Cleanup: scope and rate](/quickbooks-cleanup/)

### What was wrong

- Job material purchases coded to one generic expense account instead of by job
- Owner draws recorded as business expenses in five of the nine months
- Two equipment loan balances never tied to the lender's statements

### Uncategorized transactions, to zero

Uncategorized transactions by review period, falling from 380 to 0 across 4 checkpoints.

Uncategorized transactions remaining, by review period

| Checkpoint | Uncategorized |
| --- | --- |
| Day 1 | 380 |
| Day 4 | 190 |
| Day 6 | 60 |
| Day 8 | 0, settled |

restaurants

## Restaurant: 24 months never entered into QuickBooks

Illustrative example

A single-location restaurant with two years never entered into QuickBooks, caught up in twelve business days. [Read the full example](/results/restaurant-catch-up/)

Months behind

Flagged: 24

Days to fix

Settled: 12

Engagement

Catch-Up

Cost

$1,901

fixed fee for 24 months of catch-up, 20% off for a backlog of 6 months or more

[Catch-Up: scope and rate](/quickbooks-catch-up-bookkeeping/)

### What was wrong

- Two years of bank and card transactions sitting uncategorized in the bank feed
- Payroll journal entries never matched to the payroll provider's reports
- Sales tax collected was never reconciled against filed returns

### Uncategorized transactions, to zero

Uncategorized transactions by review period, falling from 640 to 0 across 4 checkpoints.

Uncategorized transactions remaining, by review period

| Checkpoint | Uncategorized |
| --- | --- |
| Day 1 | 640 |
| Day 5 | 410 |
| Day 9 | 150 |
| Day 12 | 0, settled |

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**About these examples**

Client engagements are confidential, so we can't share real client data. These examples are illustrative: composite figures built from typical engagements of this size, priced at the same published rates a real engagement would be.

Published August 10, 2026 · Updated September 28, 2026