Clean-Up Bookkeeping

Transform Messy Ledgers into Audit-Ready Financials

Eliminate tax-season stress and gain clear, accurate, and actionable insight into your company’s bottom line.

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Common Pain Points

Sound Familiar?

Your books haven’t been reconciled in months (or longer) and you’re not sure what’s actually accurate

Tax season fills you with dread because you don’t trust the numbers you’d be filing from

A bookkeeping mistake was discovered and now everything downstream is in question

Intercompany accounts, fixed assets, or payroll data are out of sync with the general ledger

You want to move to ongoing management accounting support but need clean books first

That’s where a focused, methodical clean-up engagement makes the difference.

The Approach

How Pacioli Helps

Our team audits, reconciles, and rebuilds your books so you can run your business with reliable numbers and real-time visibility — restoring accuracy, clarity, and confidence to your financials.

Step 1

Discovery & Data Collection

Gather historical books, charts of accounts, reconciliations, and trial balances before touching a single entry.

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Step 2

Reconciliation Sprint

Methodically reconcile every General Ledger account against backups and source documents.

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Step 3

Corrective Entries

Apply accurate, well-documented journal entries — no shortcuts, no guesswork.

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Step 4

Quality Review & Sign-Off

A final pre-close review with a detailed findings report before you take the books forward.

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Get Started

Start With a Free Books Assessment

This is the obvious first step, not a sales pitch — a clear-eyed look at where your books stand today.

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What the assessment covers

A review of your chart of accounts, reconciliations, and trial balances

An honest look at how far out of balance things really are

A clear recommendation — no fluff, no pressure

A typical 4–8 week clean-up timeline scoped to your volume

The Track Record

Why Businesses Trust Pacioli

Path to Ongoing Support

Clean-up is often the entry point that converts into an ongoing accounting-department relationship

Repeatable Process

A repeatable, four-step process (discovery, reconciliation, correction, sign-off) refined across dozens of engagements

Ongoing Maintenance

SLA options for ongoing monthly clean-ups or quarterly re-cleans, so the mess doesn’t come back

Curious What’s Included?

See exactly what clean-up bookkeeping looks like in practice.

Scope of Work

Full Service Breakdown

Core Services

Chart of accounts cleanup and reorganization

Bank, credit card, and cash reconciliations

Accounts payable and accounts receivable cleanup

Clean-up of intercompany accounts and eliminations

Fixed assets reconciliation and depreciation corrections

Payroll and payroll tax data harmonization

Journal entry correction and backdated adjustment entries

Process and Approach

1. Discovery and data collection — gather historical books, charts of accounts, reconciliations, and trial balances

2. Reconciliation sprint — methodically reconcile every General Ledger account against backups and source documents

3. Corrective entries — apply accurate, well-documented journal entries

4. Quality review and sign-off — final pre-close review with a detailed findings report

Deliverables

Reconciled historical and current-period General Ledger

Updated chart of accounts and cost centers (if needed)

Cleaned AP/AR, vendor/customer data, and master data

Reconciled bank statements and cash positions

Monthly closing package with supported journal entries

Error-free, auditable financial statements

Typical Timeline

A full clean-up typically runs 4–8 weeks, depending on volume.

Interim milestones: data collection → first-pass reconciliations → remediation → final sign-off

SLA options: ongoing monthly clean-ups or quarterly re-cleans to maintain accuracy

Client Testimonials

How the Right Team Transformed These Companies

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Ready for a real accounting department, scaled to your budget?

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