Books Health Check
Find Out What Your Books Really Need
A focused diagnostic review for business owners who need clarity on whether their QuickBooks file, reconciliations, reports, and bookkeeping process are accurate enough to trust.
Start here when you are not sure whether your books are clean, tax-ready, or giving you the right financial picture.
The Books Health Check is a fixed-scope review of your bookkeeping file and accounting workflow. It is designed to identify what is working, what is unreliable, and what needs to be cleaned up before you make decisions from the numbers.
Common Signs You Need a Books Health Check
- Your bank or credit card accounts have not been reconciled consistently.
- You have a large balance in Uncategorized Income, Uncategorized Expense, Ask My Accountant, or similar catch-all accounts.
- Your Profit and Loss does not match what you know happened in the business.
- Your Balance Sheet has old balances, negative accounts, duplicate entries, or numbers no one can explain.
- You are preparing for tax filing, financing, a cleanup project, or monthly bookkeeping support.
- You are using QuickBooks, Odoo, Xero, or another accounting system but are not confident the setup is correct.
What We Review
- Bank and credit card reconciliation status.
- Open, duplicate, uncategorized, or stale transactions.
- Accounts receivable and accounts payable reasonableness.
- Chart of accounts structure and account mapping issues.
- Balance Sheet and Profit and Loss red flags.
- Sales tax, payroll, loan, asset, and liability account warning signs when applicable.
- Month-end close readiness and bookkeeping workflow gaps.
What You Receive
You receive a clear summary of findings, prioritized issues, and recommended next steps. The goal is not to guess or oversell. The goal is to give you a practical diagnosis so you know whether your books are mostly healthy, need targeted corrections, need a deeper cleanup project, or need ongoing bookkeeping support.
How The Process Works
- Intake: We confirm your accounting system, business type, accounts, current pain points, and deadline pressures.
- Access: You provide temporary accounting-system access and any supporting statements or reports needed for review.
- Review: We inspect reconciliation status, transaction flow, financial reports, account structure, and obvious workflow breakdowns.
- Findings: We prepare a plain-English summary of what is clean, what is risky, and what should happen next.
- Recommendation: We walk through whether you need cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, software setup, training, or a lighter maintenance path.
Best Fit
This service is best for small and mid-sized businesses that need bookkeeping clarity before tax preparation, financing, cleanup, monthly support, or a system transition. It is especially useful when the accounting file has been touched by multiple people, neglected for several months, or used mainly for data entry without a reliable close process.
Next Step
Contact True Financial Talent to request a Books Health Check and describe what feels unclear in your current books. From there, we can confirm fit, access needs, and the right review scope.