Books a mess?
Monthly bookkeeping, closed by the 10th. Weekly reconciliation, a one page report, the same bookkeeper all year. From $350 a month on the base rate.
Estimated $320 to $2,700 a month
Price of this copyOne 20 minute call
Office hoursMon to Fri, 8:30 to 5
Evening EditionBookkeeping, tax and CFO help for small business. Printed in Los Gatos.
Los Gatos, California Monday, November 9, 2026 Vol. XIV, No. 312 ·
Section B · Classifieds
Everything we do, in the fewest words that still tell you the price. Filter by how it is billed. Reply to any ad by calling the desk.
Monthly bookkeeping, closed by the 10th. Weekly reconciliation, a one page report, the same bookkeeper all year. From $350 a month on the base rate.
Estimated $320 to $2,700 a month
Business and owner returns, drafted early, reviewed by a CPA, filed on time or extended on purpose.
$650 to $2,400 a return
Payroll runs, filings and new hire setup.
$80 plus $12 a person
One hour of tax planning while the year is still open. Salary, retirement accounts, estimates.
$900 to $2,800
Growing faster than your spreadsheet? Ten hours a month of cash forecasting, pricing and margin work, and someone to sit in on the bank meeting.
$1,500 to $4,500 a month
One month or three years. We rebuild from the bank statements up, then file what is missing.
$210 to $18,720, once
Each state, each period.
$60 a state
Three included. Each extra bank or card.
$25 each
Bring it in. Clients pay nothing to have one read.
Entity choice, as part of a planning meeting.
Tell us what you have and what is behind. You get a fixed quote in writing the same week, and no follow up spam if you say no.
Prices come from our published rates. Monthly bookkeeping is shown as the estimator prints it, give or take 10 percent.
Every ad above is a real service with a real price range. Monthly work is billed on the 1st for the month ahead. Yearly work, like a return, is billed when we file. One time work, like a catch up, is quoted as a single fixed number before we start.
Most clients take two or three ads at once: books every month, the return once a year, payroll if they have people. The fee ledger on the pricing page adds them up for you in about a minute, using the same rates we use on the call.