Bookkeeping and book cleanup in Hattiesburg, kept current by the firm that files your taxes
Statements you can read, from the firm that files your taxes.
- Clean numbers every month
- Books the bank will accept
- Behind? We get you current
- Annual return included
- Healthcare
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Professional Services
- Retail
Sound familiar?
The books always get done last
Nobody starts a business to do data entry. So the books go to whoever has a spare evening: you, your spouse, the office manager. It works in the slow months. Then the busy season hits, the receipts pile up, and the books quietly fall three months behind.
Here is what that costs you. The bank wants updated financials for the line of credit by Friday, and you cannot give them a straight answer about your own business. Every decision in between, the hire, the equipment, the price change, gets made on a guess, because the real numbers live in a stack of unreconciled statements. Then January arrives and the whole file gets shoveled to a preparer who has never seen it, charges to untangle it, and finds the problems eleven months too late.
The owners who call us are not careless people. They are busy people running a real business on numbers they do not quite trust. That is a fixable problem, and fixing it is most of what this service is.
Our approach
The same firm keeps the books and signs the return
Most bookkeeping services stop at data entry. Most tax preparers start at January. Voss & Associates does both, on purpose, because the gap between those two is where money gets lost.
When this firm keeps your books, the credentialed CPAs who will sign your return are looking at your numbers all year. Accounts get reconciled monthly, categories get set up the way the return will need them, and when filing season comes there is no handoff and no surprise cleanup bill.
CPAs on staff
combined years of practice
filing from the same Hattiesburg office
A flat monthly arrangement, in writing, in an engagement letter you sign first, with your annual return part of the engagement. One relationship, one predictable cost.
Every month, a financial picture in plain terms: what came in, what went out, where you stand, reconciled to the bank.
Most clients arrive with a bookkeeping file in some condition, whatever software it lives in. We work from what exists, fix the categories, reconcile the accounts, and keep it current, rather than forcing a new system on you.
The Clean Books Standard
Most firms go silent May through January, then scramble February through April. We run the opposite way — a clean file isn’t an accident, it’s a standard we hold every month.
We move your file and clean it up.
Sign one authorization and we pull your prior returns, schedules, and books from your old firm. The switch happens in the background.
- Prior-year return reviewed for missed deductions
- Every account reconciled, books brought current
- Live within 30–60 days of signing
We project your tax bill before April.
When your year calls for it, we run a full tax projection before year-end, so you know what you’ll owe with months to plan, not days, and weigh the tax impact of big decisions first.
- Tax projections available as needed
- Quarterly federal & Mississippi estimates
- No scrambling for cash nobody warned you about
One firm, every filing, year-round.
Business return, personal return, payroll, sales tax, the Mississippi Department of Revenue (MS DOR), the IRS — all under one roof, all signed by a credentialed CPA. A letter shows up, we handle it.
- A credentialed CPA on the line, not a call center
- Monthly financials hit your inbox
- IRS & MS DOR letters handled by the firm
What that means for you.
Because your statements arrive monthly and reconciled, the cash-flow question that keeps owners up at night gets answered with a number, not a hunch.
Because the books are current and reconciled, you hand your banker real financials without flinching, and financing moves on your timeline.
Because the return is prepared from books this firm kept all year, January stops being a cleanup project and April stops holding surprises.
Because the bookkeeper and the return signer work down the hall from each other, nothing falls in the gap and nobody points fingers.
Because the data entry leaves your house, the person who used to do the books after dinner gets to stop.
Because catch-up is ordinary work here, the backlog that has been quietly embarrassing you gets handled without a lecture, not held against you.
Owners who stopped chasing their accountant.
A few words from Pine Belt business owners who moved their books to the Clean Books Standard.
“Switching sounded like a nightmare, so I put it off for two years. Voss handled the whole handoff from my old CPA — I signed one form and they did the rest. First time in years my books were actually current when the bank asked.”
Family Dental Practice · Hattiesburg
“No more April surprises. Ric runs a projection every fall, so I know what I’ll owe with months to plan instead of days. The tax-time scramble for cash is just — gone.”
General Contractor · Petal
“An IRS notice showed up and I forwarded it to Ric — that was the end of my involvement. One firm, one phone number, and somebody who actually calls back the same day.”
Professional Services · Laurel
Before you call
The questions owners ask first
The first question is almost always cost, and the honest answer is that it depends on your transaction volume and which filings you need. What does not depend on anything is how you find out: a flat monthly arrangement, in writing, signed before we touch a transaction, with your annual return part of the engagement. Set that against what the January cleanup, the missed deductions, and the occasional penalty already cost you.
The second is whether you are too far behind to start. You are not. A backlog is ordinary work here, and there is no version of waiting that makes it smaller, so the best month to get current is this one.
And the quieter one: will handing the books off mean losing sight of your own business? It is the opposite. Right now the numbers live in a file nobody finishes. With us, a readable statement lands in your hands every month, and you can reach a credentialed CPA who knows your business whenever you have a question about it.
Zero pressure. Ever.
Your consultation is a real conversation with a CPA, not a sales pitch. If Voss isn’t the right fit for your business, we’ll tell you on the call and point you toward a firm that is. No contracts to trap you, no surprise invoices, and every return signed by a credentialed CPA who stands behind the work.
Month to month — stay because it works.
One flat fee, agreed in writing up front.
Received a tax letter on our work? We handle it.
The questions we hear most.
A flat monthly arrangement set by your transaction volume and filing needs, stated in a written engagement letter before work begins. No hourly meter, no surprise cleanup invoices.
Reconciled books and monthly financial statements in plain terms: income, expenses, and where you stand. You also get a CPA who will answer questions about what the numbers mean.
Yes. Most clients arrive with a file in some condition. We work from what exists, clean up the categories, reconcile the accounts, and keep it current rather than forcing a new system on you.
We bring the backlog current first: reconciling accounts, fixing categories, and organizing everything the way your return will need it. One signed authorization moves prior records over.
Yes. Monthly bookkeeping at Voss includes the annual return, prepared and signed by a credentialed CPA working from books this firm kept all year.
Yes, payroll runs as its own service and can be added to your engagement, so the books, payroll, and the return all sit with one firm.
Hand your return to a CPA who'll still know it next year.
Your pricing in writing, a credentialed CPA who signs the work, and answers when your decisions can’t wait for spring. Start with a no-cost Fit Conversation.