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Bookkeeping, accounting, and CFO support

Every service in one place, with a page behind each one. Twenty-two services across four areas of work.

Where taxes fit

Next Step keeps the books and provides accounting and advisory support. Tax work is handled by trusted outside partner firms, and Tim coordinates with them directly, handing over a clean and current set of books so you are not paying twice for the same work.

Bookkeeping

The foundation. Accurate, reconciled, current. Nine services, and most clients use two or three together. See the bookkeeping overview for how the pieces fit together.

Bookkeeping

Monthly bookkeeping

A full close every month, delivered on a fixed date, with every account reconciled and the period locked.

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Bookkeeping

Quarterly bookkeeping

The same close four times a year, for businesses with modest volume and nobody waiting on monthly figures.

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Bookkeeping

Annual bookkeeping

A full year built, reconciled and closed in a single engagement, for holding companies and very low-activity entities.

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Bookkeeping

Catch-up and cleanup bookkeeping

Missing months rebuilt from bank history and existing errors corrected, then reconciled forward to current.

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Bookkeeping

QuickBooks Online setup and management

A file configured around how your business actually works, then managed month to month by a ProAdvisor.

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Bookkeeping

Bank reconciliation

Reconciliation on its own, when you handle your own coding but want the balances independently proved.

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Bookkeeping

Financial statement preparation

Profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow prepared from closed books and formatted for whoever reads them.

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Bookkeeping

Accounting software setup and management

The whole finance stack: platform choice, configuration, integrations tested, and someone who owns it.

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Bookkeeping

QuickBooks cleanup and reclassification

For a file where nothing is missing but plenty is miscoded, duplicated, or sitting in the wrong account.

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Accounting and financial reporting

The layer above bookkeeping, where a closed ledger becomes a monthly read you can make decisions on. See the accounting and financial reporting overview for how the pieces fit together.

Accounting

Monthly financial reporting package

Statements with comparatives, the measures that matter for your business, and written commentary on what moved.

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Accounting

Cash flow analysis and forecasting

The profit to cash bridge, plus a rolling thirteen-week forecast built from real receivables and commitments.

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Accounting

Budget versus actual reporting

Plan against result each month, with material variances investigated and explained rather than simply displayed.

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Accounting

Inventory tracking

Stock valued properly and released to cost of goods sold when it sells, which is what makes gross margin mean something.

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CFO and advisory

Senior outside financial support for owners who have outgrown doing it alone but are nowhere near a finance hire. See the cfo and advisory overview for how the pieces fit together.

CFO

Fractional CFO services

An outside finance lead engaged for a set number of days a month against a written scope, never on your payroll.

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CFO

Business financial planning

A defined project: unit economics, multi-year projections with stated assumptions, and scenario testing.

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Industry-specific accounting

Seven sectors where the accounting genuinely has to be structured differently from the start. See the industry-specific accounting overview for how the pieces fit together.

Specialty

Nonprofit and 501(c)(3) accounting

Fund accounting, restricted grant tracking, functional allocation, and board-ready reporting.

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Specialty

Real estate investor bookkeeping

Per-property ledgers, deposits as liabilities, mortgage splits, and capital separated from repairs.

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Specialty

Healthcare and medical practice accounting

Reimbursement reconciled to billing, revenue at realizable value, and contribution by provider.

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Specialty

E-commerce accounting

Settlements broken into components, multi-channel consolidation, and inventory at landed cost.

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Specialty

Trust and estate accounting

Fiduciary records with principal and income separated, and accountings produced in proper form.

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Specialty

Dental practice accounting

Production against collection, supply and lab ratios, and hygiene assessed as its own centre.

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Specialty

Construction accounting

Job costing, work in progress each period, and retainage tracked on both sides of the ledger.

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Where we work

Next Step works with businesses nationwide, fully remote, from a home base in Cedar Park, TX. The Austin metro is closest to home and San Diego County is a long-standing second market, and every client is served on exactly the same terms.

Austin area, Texas

  • Cedar Park, TX
  • Leander, TX
  • Round Rock, TX
  • Georgetown, TX
  • Austin, TX
  • Pflugerville, TX

San Diego County, California

  • San Diego, CA
  • Carlsbad, CA
  • Escondido, CA

Not sure which service you need?

Most owners are not, and that is a normal place to start. Describe what is going on and we will point you at the right piece of work, even when it is a smaller piece than you expected.

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Tell us what is going on with your books.

A short conversation is usually enough to work out what you actually need.

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