FAQ – Bookkeeping for Small Business

Bookkeeping keeps your finances organized, helps you track profit and expenses, and ensures you're prepared for taxes, loans, audits, or future growth.

A bookkeeper tracks income and expenses, categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, generates reports, and ensures your records are accurate and up to date.

At a minimum: income, expenses, payroll, tax payments, loan balances, and owner draws or contributions. Clean records lead to smarter decisions and fewer tax surprises.

Monthly bookkeeping is ideal. It keeps your financials current and avoids errors piling up. RemoteBooksOnline provides monthly CPA-reviewed reports to help.

Yes. Most CPAs don’t do day-to-day bookkeeping. We handle your books so your CPA can focus on taxes, filings, and strategic advice.

You can, but it’s time-consuming and easy to make costly mistakes. Many owners start DIY and later outsource to professionals once the business grows.

We recommend QuickBooks Online or Xero. Both are cloud-based and work well with our monthly services.
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Bookkeeping is about recording day-to-day financials. Accounting is about interpreting that data for tax and strategy. We handle the bookkeeping — your accountant handles the tax work.

Typical monthly fees range from $150–$400 depending on complexity and size. RemoteBooksOnline offers flat-rate pricing with no hidden fees.
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Yes. We specialize in catch-up bookkeeping and can clean up your records quickly — even if you haven’t touched them all year.
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