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How much will your QuickBooks cleanup actually cost?

Behind on your books, or inherited a mess from a cheap bookkeeper? Get a realistic cost range in 30 seconds - built from the rates bookkeepers and CPAs actually quote, not a sales pitch.

Realistic quote range for this cleanup

$3,300 - $6,000

Estimates only, based on publicly quoted practitioner rates (see method below). Your actual quote depends on what a bookkeeper finds once they open the file. This is not accounting, tax, or financial advice.

Why every quote you get will be higher than you expect

Bookkeepers describe cleanup work as a mystery box: they can't see how bad the file is until they're inside it, and most owners won't hand over account access before signing. So practitioners quote high to protect themselves, and the real number "almost always costs much more once you dig in." The single thing that lowers your quote is knowing exactly what's wrong before anyone bills an hour.

That diagnosis is what we're building

BooksAudit reads your QuickBooks Online or Xero export and returns a dated diagnostic report: miscategorized transactions, duplicates, unreconciled accounts, and the common offshore-handoff errors - before you pay anyone to fix them. Diagnostic only: it never touches your ledger. Use the report to scope the fix yourself, or hand it to your bookkeeper so they can quote the real job instead of the mystery box.

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