QuickBooks Cleanup Services in Morristown NJ

Helping business owners gain financial clarity, improve cash flow, and increase profitability.

What’s Covered on This Page

• What Cedar Knolls Business Owners Deal With in QuickBooks
• Visiting Capgro Bookkeeping Services from Cedar Knolls
• Understanding the Business Environment Surrounding Cedar Knolls for Bookkeeping Services
• Can you help a Cedar Knolls contractor who mixed personal and business expenses in QuickBooks for years?
• My landscaping business works jobs all along Ridgedale Avenue — do I really need job costing set up in QuickBooks?
• I’m near Cedar Knolls and prefer not to drive to Teaneck — can we still work together on my QuickBooks cleanup?

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What Cedar Knolls Business Owners Deal With in QuickBooks

Cedar Knolls is located right along Ridgedale Avenue where there have been small contractors and service businesses for many, many decades. These businesses, plumbers and HVAC technicians and landscapers, often travel Morris County throughout the day to perform their work. The QuickBooks files of these companies tell this story.

And it often isn't a good story.

We frequently see these trends with Cedar Knolls area clients. For instance, there is a roofing business just off of South Road that has three years of unclassified income sitting in "Ask My Accountant". Another painting business located just across the line with the Township of Hanover has been logging all of their material and labor expenses as one large expense category, with no breakdown by job to allow for job costing. This isn't because any of these businesses owners are lazy. It's because they are busy and never got their QuickBooks set up correctly when they first started.

This is what we most commonly see when our QuickBooks cleanup services are being used by contractors in the Cedar Knolls area:

• Bank feeds not working for several months, causing unknown errors in accounting until tax time rolls around
• Duplicate transactions as some transactions are both manually entered and imported at the same time
• Invoices for customer are being entered as deposits instead of Accounts Receivables
• Sales tax has been collected for jobs that are not then being properly tracked or reported with New Jersey
• Draws and expenses are being mixed on the same check with no separation between business and personal

That last one is very common in this area. Many businesses in the Cedar Knolls area started as small side businesses. The business owner was using one bank account for both the business and personal transactions. Over time as the business grew into a large operation that started working Morristown and Parsippany, the financial records became a tangle of personal and business transactions.

Job costing is also a problem that frequently arises. A business that does landscaping along Ridgedale Avenue can easily have five jobs bid per week. Without tracking the hours, the material costs, or the subcontractor bills within each job within QuickBooks, you don't really know if they are making any money. We have seen QuickBooks files where one contractor believed all of their work was making money, until we properly sorted the records, only to find out that two out of five jobs were costing them money.

So this we do doesn't just involve correcting old data entries, this we do involves setting your business up for success going forward.

Another common issue we find is properly recording payroll. Many contractors in our area are using outside payroll companies, but have never recorded the numbers in QuickBooks. That creates issues with balance sheet liabilities where payroll should be, but the Profit & Loss looks incorrect too. It's hard for a small business owner to realize the financial statements don't add up to the correct bank account balance because it was never recorded in QuickBooks.

We do most of this remotely, from our office location in Teaneck. But we are very familiar with the businesses in the Cedar Knolls area, so we are well prepared and what to look for as a business owner is describing the issues they are dealing with. The heating company that grew too fast last summer, or the electrician who was using a paper invoice book before switching to QuickBooks half way through the year without bringing over the old invoices. It all ends up the same thing, but in different industries.

Having a poorly structured QuickBooks files isn't just frustrating for a small business owner, you are leaving money on the table in the form of missed deductions, incorrect tax filing fees, and unable to bid projects for a profit because you don't know what that job truly costs. Getting caught up on this cleanup now means your monthly bookkeeping will be spotless from here on.

Visiting Capgro Bookkeeping Services from Cedar Knolls

Most of our local clients, particularly those near Cedar Knolls, prefer to conduct their QuickBooks remotely. This is exactly how we got started. But if you’d prefer an in-person consultation, just drive east. Our office is located at 1090 Congress Ave, Teaneck. More details about where we’re located: our service area page. our service area page

From Cedar Knolls, you’re looking at a 35- to 45-minute drive to our Teaneck office, depending on the traffic. Watch out for morning and evening rush hour on both Interstate 287 and Route 80 and factor that into your trip.

Here is the simplest drive from Cedar Knolls:

1. Go east on Ridgedale Avenue toward South Jefferson Rd. Take the I-287 North entrance.
2. Travel on the I-287 North for approximately 4 miles. Merge onto the I-80 East toward Paterson.
3. Stay on the I-80 East for approximately 15 miles. Follow the Route 20 East toward Paterson exit.
4. Follow Route 20 East, which will become McLean Boulevard. Then, go onto Market Street in Paterson.
5. Take the Route 4 East from there and get on to Teaneck Road, taking a right onto Teaneck Road going south.
6. Turn left onto Congress Ave. 1090 Congress Ave on your right will be our office.

From the Morristown Green area, follow Route 202 south to Interstate 287 North and take the same directions as above. That will take about five minutes out of your trip.

Most of the clients in this part of Morris County will never drive down to Teaneck. We do remote bookkeeping, so we share our screens and work through your QuickBooks file together online. The HVAC contractor whose jobs are up the street on Hanover Avenue or the landscape contractor working all along Ridgedale doesn't have time to wait in the Route 80 traffic..

We're remote bookkeepers for that reason. You keep doing your work in the Morristown area. We'll clean up your books, from Teaneck.

The option is yours, however. Some clients would just like to stop by to meet once and discuss their chart of accounts, their profit and loss reports, etc. In that case, the drive from Cedar Knolls is a piece of cake. And our building has free parking.

So the next time someone says "bookkeeping for Morristown, NJ, is too far from me," it doesn't have to be. You can find us by car, by phone, or by Zoom just like you would any other service area listed on our "Where We Work" page. fast answers, clean accounts and no wasted drive unless it's what you want.

Understanding the Business Environment Surrounding Cedar Knolls for Bookkeeping Services

Cedar Knolls sits just off Ridgedale Avenue where small commercial buildings are interspersed with residential properties, with wooded lots behind them. It's a little corner of Hanover Township that does its own thing. Contractors pull their trucks out of the driveways on the street just off of South Jefferson Road.

Trailers full of landscaping equipment fill up before dawn along the Route 10 corridor before being delivered to the many job sites that dot Morris County. This neighborhood is an active year-round for home services companies. The age of the homes in the Cedar Knolls region is high. Many were constructed in the mid-1900s and need constant maintenance. Every time nor'easters roll in, roofers can expect the phones to ring. Plumbers work to replace older copper piping. HVAC contractors swap out HVAC systems that have outlived their warranty. Each task generates an accounting entry that needs to be accurately booked in QuickBooks.

And yet, this area presents unique challenges for small business proprietors. The plumber who performs three projects over the course of the week on Whippany Road may have his team wrapping a job in South Street, Morristown. He purchases materials at the Route 10 hardware store. He pays subcontractors with checks or cash. He collects the receipt for the hardware store and it winds up on the front seat. At the end of tax year, his QuickBooks file is cluttered with uncategorized transactions and duplicates. This is a common issue that QuickBooks cleanup services can resolve. We regularly work with contractors in this sector of Morris County to help them clean up QuickBooks. Business operations are smooth on the jobsite, but financial operations don't tell the same story.

Some recurring examples of QuickBooks problems include the following: Income from many tasks being lumped into one income account with no job costing. Supplies used for a Cedar Knolls home update mixed with those used in other towns. Payments made to subcontractors are not entered in a standardized manner, so tax time 1099 reporting is a nightmare. Bank feeds have been connected to QuickBooks, but are never reviewed, creating an accumulation of duplicates and uncategorized transactions.

The presence of both residential and commercial buildings along the Ridgedale Avenue stretch means contractors in this area are frequently performing various kinds of jobs. In the morning, the painter paints all the exterior of a single family home off of Malapardis Road. Later in the afternoon, he goes around to a nearby office complex off of the Cedar Knolls Post Office, and provides a bid on the interior painting work. Each job has a unique profit margin, and if you don't have proper job costing inside your QuickBooks file, you don't know which jobs earn you a return and which lose you money. The benefit of this cleanup extends beyond correcting past errors; your QuickBooks file is also being optimized going forward, so your Cedar Knolls, New Jersey and other projects will always be entered in the correct manner.

Seasonality can be an issue for electricians and heating and cooling companies. In the summer, you can count on requests to replace old air conditioning units. In the winter, you can count on the demand for furnace repair. Revenue peaks and valleys don't always match those of expenses. If your QuickBooks data is disorganized, these cash flow discrepancies will not appear to be apparent. We have cleaned up QuickBooks files in Morris County for home services firms whose owners weren't even aware that half their jobs were unprofitable. In Cedar Knolls, you can get ahead of other businesses if you know the numbers. Business owners around the Route 10 corridor have to work harder to earn their keep. Those that remain in business are able to determine precisely how much each and every task costs them, right down to the price of the last box of nails.

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