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

Illustrative example, not a result from an actual client engagement. Composite figures showing how a cleanup of this size is typically scoped and billed before an ongoing monthly close begins.

Months behind

Days to fix

Engagement

Cleanup

Cost

$995

fixed fee for 5 months of 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 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

Illustrative example, not a result from an actual client engagement. Composite figures showing how a cleanup engagement of this size is typically scoped and billed.

Months behind

Days to fix

Engagement

Cleanup

Cost

$1,791

fixed fee for 9 months of 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 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

Illustrative example, not a result from an actual client engagement. Composite figures showing how a catch-up engagement of this size is typically scoped and billed.

Months behind

Days to fix

Engagement

Catch-Up

Cost

$5,976

fixed fee for 24 months of catch-up

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 remaining, by review period
Checkpoint	Uncategorized
Week 1	640
Week 2	410
Week 3	150
Week 4	0 , settled

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