Bookkeeping & monthly accounting

Bookkeeping that tells you where you stand.

Lucenti keeps the books for service businesses across the U.S. — reconciled every month, closed on a schedule you can count on, and handed back as numbers you can actually make decisions from.

Sound familiar?

The books are behind, and you're running the business on a gut feel and a bank balance.

QuickBooks makes it look simple — connect the bank feed and you're done. But a connected feed isn't a closed month. Transactions land in the wrong accounts, reconciliations drift, and by the time you need a real number, nobody can tell you whether it's right.

You don't actually know if you were profitable last month.

Money came in and money went out, and you can't say where it went.

Reconciliations are weeks — or months — behind.

Tax time turns into a scramble to fix a year's worth of entries.

None of that is a discipline problem. It's what happens when bookkeeping is the last thing on a list that never ends. Handing it to someone whose whole job is getting it right is usually the cheapest decision on that list.

What's included

Everything that has to happen every month.

Packages are built from this list — you take what your business actually needs, not a tier someone else designed.

The monthly close

The work that makes the numbers true
  • Bank reconciliations
  • Credit card reconciliations
  • General ledger maintenance
  • Transaction coding and review
  • Monthly closings on a set date

Your financials

What you get back, every month
  • Profit & loss statement
  • Balance sheet
  • Cash balance tracking
  • Financial statements & reporting
  • A walkthrough, if you want one

Beyond the basics

Add what applies to you
  • Payroll processing
  • QuickBooks™ file clean-up
  • Catch-up and back-work
  • Outsourced accounting
  • Custom reporting by location or department

Flat monthly pricing, scoped to your volume. No hourly billing, no surprise invoices, and the package changes when your business does. Need help acting on the numbers rather than just producing them? That's fractional CFO work.

How it works

Behind once, then never again.

Most businesses come to us with some catching up to do. That's normal, and it's the first thing we fix.

1

We start with a clean slate.

Whatever shape the books are in, we clean up the file and bring everything current before we call it a starting point. No judgment — we've seen it all.

2

We set the monthly rhythm.

Reconciliations, coding, and the close happen on a fixed schedule each month. You know the date your financials land, and they land on it.

3

You get numbers you can use.

Statements you can read, plus a person who knows your business and answers the phone when you have a question about them.

Common questions

Questions we get asked a lot.

What if my books are months behind?

That's the most common way clients arrive, and it isn't a problem. We quote catch-up work separately from your monthly service, clean the file up to a defined starting point, and then keep it current from there. You'll know the scope and the cost before we begin.

Do I have to use QuickBooks Online?

Yes — we work exclusively in QuickBooks Online. That's a deliberate choice. Knowing one platform deeply means we know its quirks, its integrations, and how to make it produce reporting you can actually act on, rather than being passably good across five systems.

If you're on something else today, we'll scope what moving over involves during onboarding and walk you through it before you commit to anything.

Do you work with the other software I run my business on?

Almost certainly. QuickBooks Online is where the accounting lives, but the detail that makes it useful comes from the systems you already use every day. We pull and reconcile data from platforms including HubSpot, Stripe, PayPal, Ramp, Shopify, Gusto, ADP, Justworks, GoHighLevel, Knowify, Optimantra, ProfitKeeper, and MyTime — and if yours isn't on that list, it's rarely a problem.

That integration work is what turns a bank feed into something worth reading: revenue broken out by location, labor by department, merchant fees landing where they belong. Not one lump sum you can't do anything with.

How much does bookkeeping cost?

Pricing is flat and monthly, scoped to your transaction volume and the services you actually need. No hourly billing and no surprise invoices. You get an exact number after a short conversation about your business — not a range that changes later.

Do you handle my taxes too?

Tax preparation is handled through our partner firms rather than in-house. We keep the books clean all year so your return is straightforward, coordinate directly with your preparer, and give them everything they need. If you don't have one, we'll introduce you.

Who actually does the work on my account?

A small, U.S.-based team — Lucenti is family owned and operated, and there are four of us. Your books are handled by the same person month after month, and when you call, you get Abbey. Every time.

When do I get my financials each month?

By a set date you agree to at the start, every month. That predictability is the point — financials that arrive whenever they happen to be finished aren't much use for making decisions.

Something not covered here? Ask us on a free call — no pressure either way.