Campbell, California

Accounting Services in Campbell & the Bay Area

Your books tell you what happened. Accounting tells you what it means. We provide small business accounting services across Campbell, the Bay Area and California: a month that actually closes, statements you can hand to a lender or a board, and a straight answer on whether the business is working.

Illustration of an accountant presenting financial charts while a colleague reviews records on a stack of binders

Bookkeeping or accounting — which do you actually need?

They get used interchangeably, and they aren’t the same job. Most businesses need both, but usually not in the same amount.

Bookkeeping

Keeping the record straight.

  • Transactions recorded and categorized
  • Accounts reconciled each month
  • Payables and receivables tracked
  • Sales tax and routine filings
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Accounting

Working out what the record means.

  • The month formally closed
  • Statements prepared and reviewed
  • The structure behind the numbers — chart of accounts, cash or accrual
  • Reporting you can make decisions from

If your books are current but you still can’t answer ‘are we actually making money’, that’s the gap accounting fills.

What accounting adds

A month that closes

A defined close each month, so the numbers stop moving and you can rely on what you’re looking at.

Statements someone else will accept

Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow prepared to a standard a lender, investor or board will take seriously.

Structure behind the numbers

Chart of accounts built around how your business actually works, so the reports answer your questions rather than generic ones.

A year-end that isn’t a scramble

Books closed and a tax package prepared through the year, so the return is assembly rather than archaeology.

What’s included in accounting

Small business accounting

Full accounting support built on your books, turning accurate records into a clear view of the business.

Financial statements preparation

Clear profit-and-loss, balance sheet, and cash flow statements, prepared and reviewed so they actually make sense.

General ledger management

We keep your general ledger accurate and structured, the backbone every report and filing depends on.

Month-end & year-end closing

We close your books cleanly each month and at year-end, so your numbers are final, accurate, and ready to use.

Cash flow management

We help you understand and plan your cash flow, so you can see what’s coming and avoid crunches.

Accounting cleanup

Messy or behind? We clean up and correct your accounting records so everything is accurate and reliable again.

Cash and accrual accounting

We keep your books on a cash or accrual basis, whichever fits how your business runs and reports.

Cash-to-accrual conversion

We move your books from cash to accrual when you need a truer picture or a lender asks for one.

Fixed asset and depreciation schedules

We keep a register of your fixed assets and the depreciation that goes with them.

Management reporting

Monthly reports built around the numbers you actually use to run the business.

Budgets and forecasts

We build budgets and forecasts from your actual numbers so you can plan ahead.

Multi-entity consolidation

If you run more than one entity, we combine the books into one clear picture.

Not every business needs all of it. We’ll tell you which parts are worth paying for at your size.

How the close actually runs

  1. Books brought current

    Everything recorded and reconciled first. Nothing closes on top of gaps.

  2. Adjustments and accruals

    Prepayments, accruals, depreciation — the entries that move a set of records into a set of accounts.

  3. Reviewed, not just produced

    Statements checked by someone who didn’t prepare them, against the prior period and against what we’d expect.

  4. Delivered with a read

    You get the statements and a short note on what moved and what it’s worth paying attention to.

Closed by a set date each month, so the numbers are there when the decision is.

Who we do accounting for

Marketing and creative agencies

Project and retainer profitability, contractor cost, and revenue recognized across work that spans months.

Startups and multi-entity businesses

Consolidation across entities, investor and board reporting, and a structure that survives diligence.

Professional services firms

Work in progress, partner or owner compensation, and margins by service line rather than in aggregate.

Growing businesses on cash accounting

The point where cash stops telling you the truth and accrual starts to matter.

What does accounting cost?

It depends on how many entities are involved, whether you’re on cash or accrual, and how much structural work is needed before a close can run cleanly. It’s usually priced alongside bookkeeping rather than instead of it, because the close depends on the record underneath it. We quote after a short call.

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Accountants in Campbell, working across the Bay Area

The office is on South Bascom Avenue in Campbell, and the close itself runs remotely from your books. The conversations that matter, like a lender meeting, a year-end review or a question about structure, can happen across the table if you’d rather, and the rest happens by email and phone.

Meet us in Campbell

1475 S Bascom Ave, Unit 206
Campbell, CA 95008

Monday to Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm Pacific.

Questions about accounting

The things that come up most on a first call.

Bookkeeping gets your records accurate. Accounting turns them into something you can act on — a formal close, statements prepared to a standard others will accept, and reporting shaped around your decisions. If you have current books and still can’t answer a question about the business, that’s the gap.

Cash is simpler and fine for many small businesses. Accrual shows you what you earned and owed in a period rather than what moved through the bank, which matters once you’re invoicing ahead, holding inventory, or running work that spans months. It’s also required above certain sizes. We’ll tell you which side of that line you’re on.

Yes. It’s a defined piece of work — restating prior periods, setting up the entries that keep it running, and making sure the tax treatment follows properly. It’s usually done at a year boundary to keep things clean.

Books reconciled, adjusting entries posted — accruals, prepayments, depreciation — then statements produced and reviewed against the prior period. The point is that after the close, the numbers stop moving.

Yes, where there’s something solid to build on. A forecast off unreliable books is a guess with a spreadsheet around it, so we’d want the close running properly first.

Yes. Separate books per entity, then consolidation with intercompany entries eliminated. Multi-entity is common with property holdings, separate operating companies, or anything set up for investment.

Yes, if you want us to. We can prepare the pack and join the call to walk through it. Most people would rather not defend a balance sheet they didn’t build themselves.

Get in touch

Want to know what your numbers are telling you?

Tell us what you have now and what you’re trying to decide. We’ll tell you what it takes.

  • Bookkeeping, payroll and tax handled by one team
  • A local office in Campbell, serving businesses across the Bay Area
  • An Enrolled Agent on the team for your tax questions
Call us(408) 495-3989
Visit us1475 S Bascom Ave, Unit 206, Campbell, CA 95008
Office hoursMon to Fri, 9:00am to 5:00pm Pacific

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