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You have a real date. The cleanup runs in its order.

Published range $850–$2,500

A CPA waiting on the file, a filing date on the calendar, a closing or loan decision scheduled — when the deadline is real, the work re-sequences around it: the periods your date needs are diagnosed, rebuilt, and reconciled first, and your CPA gets them as they're proven. Same fixed-fee cleanup. No rush fee. A timeline you can actually plan on.

If the honest math says your date can't be met, you hear it in the review — your CPA can work with that answer. Tax determinations stay with your CPA throughout.

Deadline-first sequencing No rush fees — scoped to the work

Sequenced to your date

Day one: access + statements + the date's shape

What your CPA or lender needs first — because that sequences everything.

Deadline-critical periods first

Rebuilt, reconciled, and handed to your CPA as each is proven — not held for the full polish.

Then the rest, to done

The remaining periods finished at the same standard — so this deadline is the last one that finds you behind.

Quick answer

A deadline changes the order of the work, not its price or standard. If your CPA, lender or filing needs specific periods, those are cleaned and reconciled first and handed over as each is proven, while the remaining months follow. Because the order simply shifts, there are no rush fees for working to your date.

Why books end up not-ready when the CPA calls — the mechanism, without the panic — is its own page. Missing periods rather than messy ones? That's catch-up, folded in and priced as itself.

How the sequence actually runs

Deadline triage, step by step.

The same fixed-fee cleanup, re-ordered around a date. This is the actual sequence a deadline engagement runs — calm, specific, and built so your CPA is working while we still are.

Shape the date (first call)

Not just when, but what: which periods, which statements, and for whom. "The CPA needs the full year's P&L and balance sheet by the 15th" sequences differently from "the lender wants two years." The date's shape becomes the work order.

Diagnostic on the critical periods only

We read the deadline periods first — accounts, damage type, whether missing months mean catch-up gets folded in — and the fixed fee plus the honest timeline go in writing. If the math says the date doesn't fit, this is where you hear it, while alternatives still exist.

Liabilities and anchors first, inside each period

Within a deadline period, the sequence isn't random: opening balances anchored, then the accounts other parties depend on — payroll and collected-tax liabilities tied out — then the categorization pass. That order means a period is defensible the moment it's declared done.

Hand off as proven, not when polished

Each critical period goes to your CPA with its reconciliation reports as it's finished — they start their work while we run the remaining months. The two calendars overlap instead of stacking, and that overlap is where the timeline compression comes from.

Finish the file, then close the loop

The non-critical months get the same standard after the date is met, the periods get locked, and the last conversation is the honest one about rhythm — because the difference between this year and next year is a monthly close, not a faster rescue.

What we ask of you fits in one day-one batch: access, statements, and the date's shape. Everything after that is our calendar, reported plainly as it moves.

FAQ · Updated October 2026

When the date is real: your questions.

Your CPA is waiting on your books and the filing date is real — how fast can a cleanup run?

Honestly: it depends on what the diagnostic finds, and anyone quoting a timeline before looking is guessing at your expense. What we commit to instead is sequencing and candor — the free review happens fast, it counts the accounts and periods between you and your deadline, and the quote includes a real timeline for the deadline-critical periods specifically. Deadline-first means your CPA gets the periods they need as they're finished and proven, not when the whole file is polished. And if the honest math says the date can't be met, you hear that in the review — because your CPA can plan around that answer, and can't plan around a missed promise.

Do you charge a rush fee for urgent work?

No — the fee is scoped to the work, not to your stress. An urgent cleanup is the same fixed-fee cleanup with the sequence rearranged around your date: deadline-critical periods first, the rest after. What urgency genuinely changes is scheduling — we tell you plainly whether the timeline fits our current capacity before you commit, rather than taking the job and discovering the calendar later. A deadline is information for sequencing; it's not a pricing opportunity, and a provider treating it as one is telling you something.

What do we need from you to move quickly?

Three things, and speed genuinely depends on them arriving early. Access: QuickBooks admin or accountant access granted on day one. Statements: bank, credit-card, and loan statements for the affected periods — the reconciliation sources everything gets proven against. And the deadline's real shape: what your CPA or lender actually needs first, because 'the 2025 P&L by the 15th' sequences very differently from 'everything perfect eventually.' Owners who batch those three on the first day routinely cut the calendar time by more than the bookkeeping itself would suggest.

What if your books turn out to be worse than you thought?

The diagnostic exists precisely so that discovery happens before the quote instead of during the work. We read the file first — how many periods, how many accounts, whether the mess is miscategorization or something deeper like missing periods (that's catch-up, folded in and priced as itself). The fixed fee that follows covers the scoped reality, so mid-engagement surprises are ours to absorb, not yours to fund. The one honest caveat: if you need work we genuinely can't see in a diagnostic — records that turn out not to exist — the scope conversation reopens with you, in daylight, before anything changes.

Will the cleaned-up books be enough for your tax filing?

Our lane and your CPA's lane, stated plainly: we deliver reconciled, provable books — every account tied to statements for the affected periods, categorizations documented, reports that add up. What the filing itself requires, which deductions survive, what an extension means for you — those are tax determinations that belong to your CPA, and the whole point of the sequencing is that they make those calls from real numbers with time to think. If your CPA has already sent you a fix-list, share it in the review: their list becomes the scope's first draft, and the handoff back to them is exactly what they asked for.

After the deadline: a reconciled monthly close is what makes this the last urgent cleanup. Related: full bookkeeping cleanup · all QuickBooks services.

The date is real — start now

Tell us the deadline. Get the honest timeline.

We read the file fast, sequence the work around what your CPA or lender needs first, and put a fixed fee and a real timeline in writing — including "the date doesn't fit" when that's the truth you need. We check the file before it goes back to you.

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