Our Bookkeeping Services
We keep your books perfect every month. You never touch it.
Our monthly bookkeeping packages are structured by business complexity and transaction volume. While every client receives a custom quote, most businesses fall into one of the plans below.
Sapling Monthly Bookkeeping
Best For: Simple businesses with lower transaction volume
Includes:
Monthly bank & credit card reconciliations
Transaction categorization
Monthly financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet)
Account maintenance and review
Email support
Sprout Monthly Bookkeeping
Best For: Growing businesses with higher transaction volume and increased complexity
Includes everything in Sapling, plus:
Higher transaction volume support
More complex account structures
Our most popular plan
Pine Monthly Bookkeeping
Best For: Established businesses that need ongoing financial operations support including AP/AR.
Includes everything in Sprout, plus:
Accounts Payable (AP) management
Accounts Receivable (AR) management
Cash flow visibility support (billing, invoicing, etc…)
We can handle issuing any invoices and paying bills.
Plans include unlimited email/text support and are month-to-month (cancel anytime). Get a discount for quarterly billing.
Cleanup/Catch-up Projects
Clean up months or years of backlog
Fix incorrect categorizations and reconciliations
Get you 100% current and ready for monthly service
Get ready for tax season
Custom quote depending on level of clean up and # of transactions
Bill Payments & Monitoring
Invoicing & Payment Follow Up
QuickBooks Cleanup
Document Preparation for CPA
How Our Bookkeeping Process Works
1. Free Consultation
We talk to just figure out what your bookkeeping and accounting services needs really are and if we’re a good fit.
2. Setup & Review
We connect your bank feeds and QuickBooks. We get secure access, look at your existing accounting mess (if there is one), and clean it up fast so you’re not starting from zero.
3. Ongoing Monthly Service
We handle everything weekly. You get spotless books and a short monthly update. Done. Get your weekends back.
4. Reports & Delivery
You get financial reports and financial statements every month. You actually get what’s happening in your financials and can make informed business decisions.
5. Continuous Support
Business changes, we change with it. Questions pop up? We answer fast. Everything stays smooth through the Quickbooks online portal. Less headache for you.
The Golden Pines Bookkeeping Services
Golden Pines Accounting & Bookkeeping LLC offers quality bookkeeping services that all types of small service businesses actually use to help them stay on top of their finances. We’re right here in the Chicago area, and we take the day-to-day bookkeeping and accounting services off your plate so you can actually focus on running your business and grow your business instead of drowning in QuickBooks.
You know how it goes—small business owners end up doing everything. Bookkeeping tasks pile up until something blows up at tax time or the checking account looks weird. When you hand that stuff over to us, you stop wasting hours every week, you cut way down on the chance of screwing up payroll or missing a deduction, and honestly you just feel less buried. You end up with clean financial records, real financial clarity, decent financial statements and financial reports you can actually understand, and enough info to make informed decisions without guessing. That’s the part that lets you finally grow your business instead of stressing.
The point is these bookkeeping solutions work however you need them. Full outsourced bookkeeping or just fixing one messy area. We deal with small and medium-sized businesses, plenty of small services and contractors, busy professionals who hate paperwork. They want to grow or run their operations, not reconciling bank feeds at 10 p.m.
If you’re tired of the bookkeeping grind and want bookkeeping services that small businesses actually stick with—whether that’s full-service bookkeeping and accounting services, recognizing payroll in the books, QuickBooks cleanup, catch-up work, or just steady monthly help—let’s talk. Golden Pines can help you save serious time, knock down risk, kill the stress, and finally focus on growing your business. Shoot us a message or call for a free consultation. We’ll figure out if we’re a fit. No pressure.
Ready to Simplify Your Finances?
Why Choose Golden Pines for Accounting and Bookkeeping Services?
We’re a small local bookkeeping firm that actually specializes in small business bookkeeping services. No corporate nonsense.
Local Focus: We’re in the Chicago area ourselves, so we get the weird local vendor quirks, the way seasons mess with cash flow here, and the Illinois tax regulations that trip people up. Less explaining needed.
Experienced Bookkeepers: The people on our team are experienced bookkeepers who basically become your back-office accounting team. They’re thorough, they answer fast, they catch stuff before it becomes a problem.
Technology-Driven: We run everything through QuickBooks (we use QuickBooks every day) and give you a secure Quickbooks online portal. You can look at your numbers whenever you want—no more emailing spreadsheets back and forth.
Peace of Mind: When the books are actually clean you get real peace of mind. Tax prep stops being terrifying, you stay compliant, and you quit wondering if the numbers are right.
Focus on Your Core Business: You save a ton of time—hours every week that used to disappear into bookkeeping tasks. We handle it so you can run your business instead of feeling guilty about ignoring it.
Bookkeeping is essential for long-term success. We all know that. But most owners we talk to can barely keep your books accurate while everything else is on fire. That’s why our remote accounting services, virtual support, and outsourced bookkeeping actually make sense—affordable, scales with you, cuts the daily pain and risk. We’re not some faceless service; we’re your partner for bookkeeping and accounting services.
Bookkeeping Services FAQs
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Every plan covers the core work: weekly transaction categorization in QuickBooks Online, monthly bank and credit card reconciliations and a clean chart of accounts. Each month we close the books and send your profit and loss statement and balance sheet, plus a cash flow statement if you want one, with unlimited email and text support. The Pine plan adds accounts payable and receivable, so we also pay your bills, send invoices and follow up on late payments.
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It comes down to your monthly transaction volume and how many accounts we track. Sapling fits simpler businesses with lower volume, Sprout is our most popular plan for growing businesses with more activity and accounts, and Pine adds bill pay and invoicing for established businesses. Plans typically start at $300 a month, and your final price is customized to your business. On the free call, we look at your accounts and tell you which plan fits.
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It depends on how far behind you are and how much needs fixing; three months behind with clean records is a much smaller job than two years of uncategorized transactions. We review your QuickBooks file and bank statements first, then give you a quote and timeline before any work starts. We fix wrongly categorized transactions and duplicates, reconcile every account and get you fully current, ready for your CPA or a monthly plan.
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No. Every plan is month-to-month, and you can cancel anytime with no penalty. Paying quarterly gets you a discount, and if your business grows or slows down, we can move you to a different plan.
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Not much. Once your bank and credit card accounts are connected to QuickBooks Online, most transactions come in on their own, and we'll ask about anything we can't identify instead of guessing. You'll send receipts when needed, statements for any account that doesn't connect, and bills if we handle your accounts payable.
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Once every account is reconciled and the month is closed, we send your profit and loss statement and balance sheet, usually by the 5th business day of the following month. Because we work on your books weekly, there's no month-end scramble, and if a number doesn't make sense, text or email us and we'll walk you through it.
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We work inside your QuickBooks Online account with our own accountant login, so you never share your password and can remove our access anytime. You stay the owner of your file, and your bank accounts connect through QuickBooks Online's own bank feeds, so we never need your banking passwords.
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Yes. We don't prepare taxes, but we make sure your books are reconciled and closed for the year before your CPA needs them. We can give your CPA access to your QuickBooks file or send your year-end reports, and answer any questions they have about your accounts.