Bookkeeping services for a Columbia, SC small business
Accounting · The Foundation

Bookkeeping You Don't Have to Do Yourself

"I need somebody to handle my books" is the most common sentence new clients say to us — usually on a Sunday-night phone, with a spreadsheet open. Our bookkeeping services give Columbia, SC businesses exactly that: books kept clean, current, and off your plate, by a team working under the supervision of a licensed CPA.

What We Offer

Books That Stay Done

Monthly bookkeepingtransactions categorized, accounts reconciled, statements delivered on a schedule you can set a watch by.
Chart of accounts setup and cleanupthe filing system underneath your books, built to match how your business actually earns and spends. Most "confusing" financial reports trace back to a chart of accounts that was never designed, only accumulated.
QuickBooks done rightsetup, cleanup, or a second opinion on the file you already have. Software isn't the problem; configuration usually is.
Catch-up and cleanupsix months behind, two years behind, a shoebox — we've started from all of them, without commentary.
Why We Do It

You Have a Business to Run. This Isn't It.

Nobody starts a company to categorize transactions at ten o'clock at night. But the books can't just be done — they have to be right, because every other financial answer stands on them: your taxes, your cash forecast, your loan application, your prices. That's why our bookkeeping sits inside a practice led by a licensed CPA instead of standing alone. The person closing your month is the front end of the same team that plans your taxes and reads your margins.

Results

Small Discipline, Large Consequences

Clean monthly books are the least dramatic service we offer and the one everything else depends on. Clients feel it as fewer April surprises, loan paperwork produced in a day instead of a scramble, and a monthly statement that finally reads like information. It's also the reason our accounting clients' bigger results — the ones on our case-studies page — were measurable at all.

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Who We Serve

The Right Level of Help, Named Honestly

If you need someone senior to interpret the numbers, that's our fractional CFO work. If you need the numbers to exist, be correct, and arrive monthly without your involvement — this page is that. Plenty of businesses need this level and nothing more, and we'll tell you if that's you.

The 8 Furlong Approach

From Wherever Your Books Are Today

Understand — we look at what exists: software, statements, the backlog. Prioritize — cleanup first, then the chart of accounts, then the monthly rhythm. Solve — we do the catch-up and take over the routine. Measure — month-end close on a predictable date, every month. Grow — clean books make tax planning and cash forecasting possible whenever you're ready.

Who You'll Work With

The Hands on Your Books

Donna Lowe, our staff accountant, keeps client books moving day to day, with Melynda Wright, CPA, reviewing behind her. Two sets of eyes, one of them a licensed CPA's — on bookkeeping. That's the level of care this "basic" service gets here.

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Take The First Step

Hand It Over

One conversation, a look at your current books, and a plain answer on what cleanup needs to happen and what monthly looks like after that.

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