QuickBooks Cleanup in Rockaway Township NJ

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What's Covered on This Page

• QuickBooks Cleanup for Small Businesses in the Wharton and Rockaway Township Area
• Our Service Area and the Wharton / Rockaway Township Distance from the Teaneck QuickBooks Bookkeepers
• Can you clean up QuickBooks for a trade business in the Wharton and Rockaway Township area without us driving to Teaneck?
• My QuickBooks job costing is broken — will a cleanup actually fix it for a contractor running jobs across Rockaway Township?
• How far behind can a Wharton-area business be before a QuickBooks cleanup is no longer possible?

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QuickBooks Cleanup for Small Businesses in the Wharton and Rockaway Township Area

Small businesses on Route 15, Main Street in Wharton, don't stop. The contractors, landscapers, HVAC companies, etc, that work Morris County are working all year round, but their QuickBooks books are a mess.

We see that a lot with small home services businesses in the Wharton, Rockaway Township area. Plumbers who run jobs from Dover to Denville, get a ton of invoices in their QuickBooks, and by October, have a ton of expense transactions that aren't categorized correctly. Their customers paid their invoices but the payments aren't in their bank, and their bank feed no longer matches.

That's the time of year when a QuickBooks cleanup is most needed, and that's what we do for Wharton, Rockaway Township businesses.

There's a lot of small businesses in Wharton Rockaway Township, and many of them are trade businesses. A roofer in Rockaway Borough who gets permits filed with the township. A painter in the White Meadow Lake area doing residential work. The electrical contractor working on commercial jobs along Green Pond Road and residential jobs near town.

All of these trades depend on QuickBooks job costing to know if they are making or losing money on jobs. A bad QuickBooks file will break job costing.

QuickBooks Cleanup for a Wharton, Rockaway Township Business

• Incoming transactions that are not classified for the past 6 months+.
• Transactions from the bank feed that have been entered a second time by the owner.
• Payments for invoices that haven't been recorded in QuickBooks yet.
• Vendors that have been entered for the wrong job.

This particular landscaping company had over 2 years of transactions that were never classified or entered. They've been using QuickBooks for two years, but never reconciled one month. We made it right for them. They thought their company was profitable, but they were losing money on jobs. We cleaned it up for them, set up QuickBooks job costing, and made it right in 3 weeks before they got ready to do their taxes.

This is not unusual in Rockaway Township, Wharton.

There's a lot of trade work in Rockaway Township. A crew in Rockaway could head north to Parsippany or head south to Randolph. They are busy. Bookkeeping is usually a lower priority, and their QuickBooks books become a junk drawer of bad data. It doesn't get opened until the accountant calls for the end-of-the-year books.

Bad QuickBooks is an expensive QuickBooks. If your QuickBooks data is wrong, you can't track your accounts receivable. You can't predict next quarter if you spent the wrong amount on expenses in the last quarter. You can't do job costing on jobs in Wharton if labor and materials have been assigned to the wrong job.

Here's how we fix them from Teaneck. After your free bookkeeping consulting, we examine your QuickBooks files and determine what's wrong. Then we fix them. Reconciliation, vendor cleanup, chart of accounts, and other balance sheet account cleanups are fixed. Your books are ready for monthly bookkeeping to run smoothly after that. A home services business owner in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area needs a QuickBooks file, and most do. Let us fix it for you.

Our Service Area and the Wharton / Rockaway Township Distance from the Teaneck QuickBooks Bookkeepers

We do most of our QuickBooks bookkeeping for our Rockaway Township area clients at a distance, and that's okay. Our location is at 1090 Congress Ave, in Teaneck, NJ. You are the location that serves home services in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area. Don't worry about a trip. Find out the areas we serve in NJ here. here

Let's be sure though.

This is how our location serves our Wharton / Rockaway Township area customers if we meet in person:

1. Start on Congress Ave to Teaneck Rd.
2. Join I-80 West after Paterson, Parsippany.
3. Exit on Route 15 South, Wharton direction.
4. Route 15 to Rockaway Township, past Dover and iron country.

This takes around 35 to 45 minutes without traffic. Morning rush hour and a trip on the I-80 by Willowbrook can take over an hour, and we work with that in mind.

But the distance is not so bad for most contractors in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area. A plumber finishing a job on Main Street in Wharton does not want to sit and wait with a QuickBooks account in a remote office to go through receipts. A landscaper on a job near Rockaway Townsquare doesn't have time to drive to Teaneck. So, when we screen-share your QuickBooks account for you, or if you screen-share it for us, or if we fix what's wrong with your file together on your QuickBooks Online call, that's a better option than having our office at the address mentioned above.

We don't have a location near your job sites around Wharton, but the files from Wharton / Rockaway Township area customers are as clean and tidy as if we were on Queen Anne Road, just a few minutes away. Your bank files are just as fast. Your invoices are uploaded just as quickly. And we still check your finances every month for businesses around Teaneck, on the Wharton / Rockaway Township route, or on Route 46 near the Rockaway Townsquare.

And, a good deal of Wharton / Rockaway Township area home services businesses already use QuickBooks Online. Which means that we can start cleaning a Wharton / Rockaway Township area business's books from our Teaneck, NJ address at 8 o'clock before you get to your first job site that day. No scheduling a meeting, no trip to Teaneck to meet, wait, and go.

We have helped clients in Morris County this way. Home services in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area, small contracting outfits in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area, home repair and maintenance businesses, and residential HVAC companies, contractors, and roofing and electricians around Wharton / Rockaway Township, and home services companies in older Wharton / Rockaway Township neighborhoods, all these businesses need QuickBooks to run. They don't need us in your cab, or in the field.

And if you want us at a meeting in a Wharton / Rockaway Township area office or home, we'll make the drive to Rockaway Township. We're familiar with the route past Lake Hiawatha. We've been down Route 46 before, and we're good at getting there. But if a Wharton / Rockaway Township area business needs a quick coffee and chat rather than a trip from Teaneck, we'll take it too.

Find out the areas we serve in NJ to see how we reach customers like yours everywhere. We work quite a bit in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area, and our remote working setup is well suited to that area. There are a lot of homeowner-oriented trades businesses in Rockaway and the surrounding Morris County, and a typical one of these firms is a small operation that is often owner-operated. We've seen that in Wharton and Rockaway Township there can often be a plumber working out of a shop in Dover; someone doing lawn and garden landscaping running a mower down Route 15; an HVAC company doing installations and service in and around the Rockaway Mall and older homes in the area near the Rockaway River. These kinds of businesses are typically run out of a truck or mobile van, not out of an office. And that's what typically creates a mess in the QuickBooks file in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area. If you are in the roofing business and are working at three different sites in and around the main street area of Wharton in one week, chances are that receipts are not properly itemized by job, all getting filed under a catch-all account in the QuickBooks file. The handyman doing some painting around Green Pond Road in Rockaway Township will likely not file away material expenses for weeks at a time. And in the Wharton / Rockaway area the result is the typical mess you'll see in a QuickBooks file right around tax time: a junk drawer of uncategorized transactions, vendors that aren't consistently named the same way, bank and credit card accounts that have not been reconciled since July. You see this pattern over and over again in the home services and trades businesses in Rockaway Township and its neighboring area. It's not that these business owners have any trouble doing what they do, it's just that they don't seem to have the time or inclination to keep a proper bookkeeping record. And here's some typical things that we need to clean up in a QuickBooks file that has been let go for a year or more:

• Bank and credit card accounts that have not been reconciled in months
• Missing or poorly done job costing
• Duplicate vendors from quick, sloppy, on-the-fly
• Sales and use tax not properly recorded or filed
• Blurring of lines between personal and business expenses

We've found it particularly common here in Morris County to find a business run by a single person or with one or two employees, like an electrician or plumber in Wharton or a painter in Rockaway Township, who may have done 40 or more jobs in a quarter, each needing to be tracked in its own way to be able to tell how much profit has been earned and by what project. It can be really hard to run this business with bad, sloppy QuickBooks records. This is what makes job costing bookkeeping so important in Rockaway Township and the surrounding areas, because the contractors we're talking about here often can't be treated as a typical cookie-cutter construction business. One week, an HVAC specialist may be repairing a heating unit in a 1960s split-level home; the next, may be doing a complete kitchen remodeling job in a new townhouse complex near Rockaway Township Green Pond Road. These types of projects are different from each other and have different associated material costs and time spent and so forth. It's critical to have a job costing bookkeeping in your QuickBooks records, because a sloppy job costing can give you completely misleading information. And in the end, that's what job costing bookkeeping is all about, getting your QuickBooks records to give you a clear picture of the reality that your business is facing. We work remotely and do not necessarily have any offices in the Wharton / Rockaway Township area of Morris County, but we have worked with many, many businesses of this type. We've cleaned up QuickBooks files from contractors and trades businesses that have let them slip away for over a year. And the answer is not all that complicated; it's just a matter of finding someone who understands these business types and how they function, where the money comes from, what jobs look like and how they may overlap, how an old deposit may be sitting there in QuickBooks for three months or more still. Businesses that are often run by their owner-operators, or perhaps a small family run operation in Wharton and Rockaway Township, they don't need a full-blown department of accountants. They need someone to come in and untangle the mess in QuickBooks. That's the kind of business that we serve.

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