Remote Bookkeeping Near Old Short Hills Park | Capgro

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What’s Covered on This Page

• Why Old Short Hills Park Residents Visit Capgro Bookkeeping
• How to Get to Capgro Bookkeeping Services from Old Short Hills Park
• What Long-Term Homeowners in Steady Neighborhoods Need from a Bookkeeper
• Can a home-based contractor near Old Short Hills Park really get their books done without leaving the house?
• I run a small painting business off Windsor Road — how does remote bookkeeping handle job costing across multiple clients?
• I own rental units near Old Short Hills Park — can remote bookkeeping help me keep rental income separate from my household expenses?

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Why Old Short Hills Park Residents Visit Capgro Bookkeeping

Old Short Hills Park is located in the Short Hills section of Millburn Township, Essex County, a quiet neighborhood lined by tall trees and comprised of residential single family houses.

It is in this type of neighborhood where Capgro is frequently engaged to provide remote bookkeeping services to small businesses.

This is typical of many small businesses in this area of Short Hills. For example, a local landscaping service runs crews out of a home near White Oak Ridge Road; a painter works out of a basement near the park and does work in other parts of Essex County; an electrician resides a couple blocks from the park's walking trails but works jobs ranging from Millburn to Livingston. These business owners are in need of bookkeeping that tracks job costs, rather than a storefront in a downtown business section.

This is exactly what we provide for local home service contractors with our remote bookkeeping services. Clients simply log in to QuickBooks Online on their computer and the work is done remotely from our office in Teaneck.

Here are some common bookkeeping problems that local home service contractors have:

• Job costs running on multiple jobs with different clients in various places throughout Essex County
• Payroll for employees and 1099 tracking for subcontractors for the end of the year
• Materials costs incurred for various jobs that need to be tracked to determine a job's actual cost
• The accrual of Sales Tax when contractors get busy installing HVAC equipment and forget to file their sales tax returns

But bookkeeping needs don't end at home service contractors; it isn't uncommon to find people living in this neighborhood who are landlords of multi-family housing units in this area of Short Hills. It is quite to mix one's household expenses with the rental income they receive each month. They can benefit from the same bookkeeping services.

For instance, we work with a plumber who lives just a five-minute walk from the park, off Parsonage Hill Road in the area. The plumber had been stuffing his receipts into a shoebox for three years. We started with a QuickBooks cleanup. The QuickBooks records showed a jumble of non-categorized transactions. After the cleanup, we got him a monthly remote bookkeeping service, and now, every job is billed and the cost of materials and labor is tracked to determine the profitability of that job. We were able to determine for him, which types of jobs are profitable for him and which ones aren't.

Absolutely, this is an issue we have seen many times in this area of Short Hills. People who run businesses of all types, and in this case, home services businesses, need to track the financial aspects of their business. Unfortunately, they are busy working on jobs six days a week and it takes the last priority when it comes to the bookkeeping process.

This is why our remote bookkeeping services fit perfectly in this area of Short Hills. They simply get a log-in, they do not have to drive anywhere. We get access via QuickBooks Online, they download their bank transactions, we categorize the transactions, reconcile the bank accounts, and prepare them reports and financial statements that they understand.

So if you live near Old Short Hills Park and you own a business of some kind, for example a painting service or a roofing business and you have an older home in the area, Capgro Bookkeeping has the remote bookkeeping services for you in the Old Short Hills Park area of Short Hills. We work with people in the area on a weekly basis.

How to Get to Capgro Bookkeeping Services from Old Short Hills Park

Old Short Hills Park sits in a quiet, residential section of Millburn Township. Our office is a real drive away in Teaneck, but it never gets in the way since everything runs remotely. We also serve remote clients all across the region.

This is the general route from Short Hills to our office:

1. Take JFK Parkway or Route 24 East out of Short Hills.
2. Merge onto the Garden State Parkway North.
3. Exit onto Route 4 East and continue into Teaneck.
4. Turn onto Teaneck Road, then onto Congress Ave — our office is on the left.

The average trip takes about 45 minutes, longer with traffic on the Parkway.

The thing about this neighborhood is you can see most of the folks realize you don't even have to drive to the office, because we do everything remotely. This is something we intentionally designed our company to be, because people who live on the periphery of the older parks are generally people who live there, and have no time to spend driving on the Route 4 or sitting in the waiting rooms. They want their books and reports done out in the field in Essex County.

The directions I gave are for real, but most of our clients in the neighborhood never drive to our offices.

All of your receipting, account reconciliation and project profitability tracking for jobs, is done remotely, something a busy, home-based bookkeeping client who works for Short Hills home-based businesses really wants to have.

A plumber we service who lives near Hartshorn Drive told us he had been making quarterly visits to a local accountant in Millburn. They'd each take half a day off for the appointment. Now he's sending us his documents in his cell phone between the service calls. We gave him back an additional two full work days a year.

If you do decide to visit, there's parking on Congress Ave, and we're always happy to meet you. We live here, too.

The Old Short Hills Park area is a neighborhood of the type we've always loved. Where people live their lives and stay for decades, raising families, building small businesses, and slowly making home improvement repairs to the homes. Remote bookkeeping fits into the lifestyle because you don't have to change your schedule; you just slot it into it.

What Long-Term Homeowners in Steady Neighborhoods Need from a Bookkeeper

Old Short Hills Park residents in this area of town have long histories in the neighborhood. They tend to remain long-term homeowners and small business owners.

They've raised families here. They've seen the trees that line the park grow taller. Many of them launched their side hustles right out of their houses. This is a familiar story in this section of Short Hills. Just around the corner from Old Short Hills Road, there's a landscaping contractor who operates his crews from his garage. He's been at it for decades, and he knows every single yard in the area, yet his accounting is disorganized. He keeps receipts stuffed into shoeboxes, doesn't allocate costs to individual jobs, and is unsure about which jobs actually turned a profit. That is a gap where remote bookkeeping can help us fill the hole. By utilizing QuickBooks Online and tracking jobs individually, we are able to provide him with precise profitability details for every job without having to guess or estimate.

Long-term homeowners who reside in this area of Short Hills generally have the following traits:

• They own their homes in this area without a large or existing mortgage, their main interest is their business income and upkeep of the homes.
• They run service businesses locally: painting, HVAC repair, landscaping, etc.
• They have postponed maintaining their accounting systems because it is "fine" as it is now.
• They could use assistance with preparing their 1099s and sales tax returns at the end of the year.

Is this familiar? It's the same people we serve in most of the other areas we serve. In the neighborhood surrounding Old Short Hills Park, there is a large amount of solid single family housing. The homeowners aren't selling for a quick profit; they are residing in the homes, accumulating equity, often growing a small business while doing it, and often neglecting to maintain organized accounting records. It's not that they don't care about bookkeeping, it's that their focus is on the day to day business activities. Which is why our remote bookkeeping business works so well for them: No trips to our bookkeeping company at our office on Congress Ave in Teaneck, NJ. QuickBooks Online provides the solution for them. QuickBooks Online gives us access to the latest records on a monthly basis, with bank transactions, and monthly accounting reports.

We have helped many contractors in this Short Hills neighborhood with job costing, which is something we specialize in. A roofer that has multiple jobs going at the same time won't be able to tell which jobs are making money unless he is tracking material and labor per job. We are able to show you how your jobs are actually performing financially. This doesn't apply to just contractors and home remodeling businesses. bookkeeping services to electricians, plumbers, painters, and HVAC contractors who provide services to people in and around Short Hills. We also have many customers that live here in Short Hills, and often hear about them visiting the park in the morning on their walks. They don't have to make their accounting jobs any harder than their service work. You need to know your cash flow so that when you have a slow season, like during the winter for home services work, you know your cash flow status on a month to month basis. This allows you to take any steps you want in response when the cash situation gets tight in a particular period.

Another common situation. If you've gone months or years without looking at your books at all, you need a quick book cleanup service so we can get you up to speed on a monthly bookkeeping basis. There's no judgement, we've seen all of it. Our customers who we get calls from in this neighborhood often have a cleanup done first so their books are current, and then we can them to monthly bookkeeping services. They always are very happy to have their bookkeeping done, and have an organized accounting system and financial records.

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