Bookkeeping Services
Monthly bookkeeping for businesses in New Jersey and beyond: transaction categorization, bank and credit card reconciliation, and financial statements your tax preparer can file from.
The short version
Bookkeeping, run monthly
Wasserman Accounting provides monthly bookkeeping services for businesses in New Jersey and beyond: transaction categorization, bank and credit card reconciliation, and financial statements your tax preparer can file from.
Catch-up and cleanup work is part of the job. Months or years behind, we rebuild the books and hand you a clean starting point.
Based in Hainesport, serving businesses across New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and all 50 states since 1993.
Tell us how far behind the books are. We have seen worse.
Bring what exists. A diagnostic call tells you what the cleanup involves before you commit to anything.
Call 609-281-8096 or send the contact form. A partner reaches out within one business day.
Confidential, and handled by a CPA or EA, not a call center.
Your bank feed is connected, the software subscription is paid, and the books are still three months behind. That is where most owners are when they first call us.
Your books are the evidence behind your tax return. The IRS expects you to keep records that support every item of income, deduction, and credit on your return. When the books cannot do that, the return is built on guesswork, and guesswork is what examiners pull apart.
Scope of work
What our bookkeeping services include
Seven services, run as one monthly engagement.
Transaction categorization
Monthly coding in QuickBooks Online, Xero, or your existing system, on a chart of accounts that matches how the business actually runs.
Account reconciliations
Bank, credit card, and loan accounts tied to their statements, every account, every month.
AR and AP tracking
Who owes you and what is due, kept current rather than reconstructed at year end.
Payroll entries
Recorded and matched to the filings, coordinated with our payroll services when we run both.
Sales tax data
Organized by state and period, ready for the returns without a scramble.
Monthly statements
A profit and loss and balance sheet each month, the foundation for our financial reporting work.
Catch-up and cleanup
Prior months or years rebuilt from statements, then maintained going forward.
Every month closes with statements you can hand a lender, a partner, or your tax preparer without apologizing first. Payroll work is coordinated with our payroll services, and the monthly statements feed our financial reporting work.
The monthly close
The monthly close, three stages
Every month runs the same way, so nothing depends on remembering what happened last time.
Stage one
Collect
Bank, credit card, and loan statements pulled, plus payroll and processor reports for the period.
Stage two
Reconcile
Every transaction categorized and every account tied to its statement, with adjusting entries posted.
Stage three
Deliver
Profit and loss and balance sheet issued, with short notes on anything unusual in the month.
Repeats monthly. Numbers from last week still change decisions. Numbers from last spring only explain them.
Process
How monthly bookkeeping works
Cleanup is priced before the monthly work starts, so the two never blur together.
Setup and diagnostic
We review your chart of accounts, prior-year return, and current file. Miscategorized owner draws, loan payments booked entirely as expenses, transfers sitting in income: this pass finds them and prices any cleanup before the monthly work starts.
Monthly close
Transactions categorized, every account reconciled to its statement, and adjusting entries posted, including the ones software misses on its own, like splitting loan payments between principal and deductible interest.
Review and delivery
You receive the profit and loss and balance sheet with short notes on anything unusual: a margin shift, a balance that should not be negative, a vendor charging you twice.
Cadence matters as much as accuracy. Numbers from last week still change decisions.
Track record
What clients see after a cleanup
Most clients arrive with a cleanup and stay on monthly work afterward.
Since 1993
30+ years in practice
3,054
Clients served
30,426
Returns completed
All 50
States licensed
“We transitioned to April Moore at Wasserman Accounting for my retail business taxes as our previous accountant retired. The transition went smoothly and she jumped right in to answer any questions. We were very pleased with her knowledge and professionalism.”
The error we reverse most often
The most common error we reverse in a first-year cleanup is processor deposits recorded as income twice, once from the point-of-sale summary and once from the bank feed. The books overstate revenue, and the tax bill follows the books.
It is invisible until someone reconciles.
Pricing
What bookkeeping services cost
Your fee depends on the work involved, not hours billed. Four things move it:
Monthly transaction volume.
The number of bank and credit card accounts to reconcile.
How far behind the books are.
Whether payroll or sales tax work is included.
Send us view-only access or last month’s statements and we will return a fixed monthly quote, with cleanup priced separately.
Diagnostics
Signs your books need professional attention
Accounts have not been reconciled in months, and the software’s cash balance does not match the bank’s.
Owner draws, loan proceeds, or transfers between your own accounts are sitting in income or expenses.
Revenue on your profit and loss does not match what your payment processor reported to the IRS.
A lender asked for financial statements and the request stalled everything.
You could not survive a lookback: the IRS generally has three years to examine a return, and six when income is understated by more than 25%. Books that cannot support the return are exposure with a long shelf life, on top of the personal and business tax returns they feed.
Next step
Get the books current
Most cleanups look worse from the outside than they are from the inside. Bring what exists, even if it is a folder of statements and a shoebox of receipts; we have rebuilt years from less.
Request a bookkeeping quote
Tell us the software you use and roughly how far behind you are. Documents come at the next step, once we have talked.
Call 609-281-8096 or send the contact form. A partner reaches out within one business day.
Confidential, and handled by a CPA or EA, not a call center.
Reviewed by
George Dimov, CPA, Hainesport, NJ. Licensed in all 50 states, 15+ years advising on small business accounting and bookkeeping. Last updated July 2026. President of Wasserman Accounting, CPAs, a Hainesport firm serving New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and clients nationwide since 1993.
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