Monthly bookkeeping done by a team that's been doing it since before the spreadsheet. Reconciliations, financial statements, and a general ledger that makes sense to your CPA, your banker, and you.
At its core, bookkeeping is the ongoing work of turning your bank transactions, customer invoices, vendor bills, and payroll entries into a coherent set of financial records. Done right, those records tell you what your business is actually doing — and make tax season a quiet week instead of a crisis.
Done wrong, or skipped for months, and you end up with a shoebox of receipts and a surprise tax bill. We've helped plenty of clients out of that situation too.
Income and expenses categorized and entered into the general ledger against your chart of accounts.
Every statement reconciled to the penny, monthly. If something doesn't tie out, we find out why.
Who owes you, who you owe, and aging on both. Basic A/R and A/P records kept current.
Profit & loss, balance sheet, and supporting detail — in a format your banker and CPA will recognize.
The books are ready for tax preparation the moment the calendar flips, because we've been closing each month all year.
Bookkeeping is a relationship, not a transaction. Here's what engaging us for monthly bookkeeping looks like.
We review your current state — software, chart of accounts, outstanding issues — and set up how we'll work together.
You send us bank feeds, receipts, and any unusual transactions. We keep the process light.
We reconcile, categorize, review, and produce your statements. Questions get answered as they come up.
You get your financials within a predictable window each month. Tax prep has what it needs without a scramble.
Hughes Business Services is a small firm. That's deliberate — it's what lets us know our clients by name and make a mistake feel like a conversation, not a ticket. The clients we serve best tend to look like this:
Small businesses with annual revenue in the range where the owner doesn't want to hire a full-time bookkeeper but has outgrown doing it in a spreadsheet. Trades, professional services, retail, restaurants, and specialty businesses. Farms and ranches with active operations. Rental property owners with one, several, or a portfolio.
What unifies them is the desire for a working relationship with someone who knows the business, rather than a transactional service from someone who doesn't.
We're not a fit for high-volume e-commerce operations with thousands of daily transactions, startups needing SaaS-style automated reconciliation, or businesses specifically wanting QuickBooks Online outsourced data entry. Those are fine models — just not ours.
If you're behind on your books — months or years — we can help. It's not the first time we've seen a shoebox of receipts and a year-end deadline. Call us; we'll tell you honestly what it'll take to get current.
Bookkeeping isn't something we price off a menu, because no two sets of books look the same. A single-owner Schedule C with one bank account and 80 transactions a month is a different job than a small S-corp with payroll, inventory, and three vendor accounts.
We quote a flat monthly rate after a short conversation about what your business looks like. That rate is fixed — no surprise bills for "extra time." If the work genuinely changes (new entity, new volume, new complexity), we talk about it before changing anything.
Catch-up work is quoted separately, typically as a one-time project, before monthly service begins.
Most quote conversations take fifteen or twenty minutes.
This is where using HBS for bookkeeping really pays off — the same team sees everything, so nothing falls through the cracks.