Tax-Ready Financial Statements Cumming, GA

A tax-ready package is the set of documents your CPA or EA opens to start preparing your return. At minimum: a final P&L for the year, a final balance sheet as of December 31, a general ledger detail report, a fixed asset listing with current depreciation, loan amortization schedules for every note, and a 1099 vendor summary for the 1099 form preparation step.

For S-corp and partnership returns, we also include a reconciliation of distributions and contributions, a basis tracking summary if we have been maintaining it, and any K-1 supporting detail your preparer typically asks for. For sole-prop and Schedule C filers, we add an owner draws and contributions summary so the equity section ties out clean.

Everything is delivered in a single PDF binder organized by tab, plus the underlying Excel exports your preparer can drop into their software. If the CPA wants live QuickBooks accountant access, we set that up the same week.

Your CPA opens the file and finds undeposited funds totaling more than the actual bank balance. Owner draws are sitting in expense categories. The fixed asset register has not been updated in two years. The reconciliations stop in August. The 1099 vendors do not have W-9s on file. None of these are uncommon, and every one of them turns into either a billable cleanup project from the CPA, an extension, or both.

For Cumming small business owners, the unfortunate part is that the cleanup work usually costs more done by the CPA on a billable hourly basis than it would cost done by a bookkeeping firm in advance. Tax-ready financial statements are the cheaper, faster, lower-stress path to the same destination.

We coordinate with most CPA and EA firms in Cumming, Forsyth County, and the broader Atlanta north metro. Most preparers have their own preferred handoff format (some want PDFs, some want QuickBooks accountant access, some want both, some want a specific Excel template), and we adapt to each one. If you do not have a preparer yet, we have referrals.

We also offer a pre-tax-season handoff call if your preparer wants one. Fifteen minutes on Zoom to walk through the package, flag any unusual transactions, and answer questions before the preparer dives in saves hours of email back-and-forth later. Most CPAs love this.

For monthly bookkeeping clients, the tax-ready package is included as part of the year-end close. No extra charge.

For one-time tax-ready engagements (clients who do their own books all year and just want a clean year-end package), pricing is a fixed quote based on the file diagnostic, typically $1,200 to $4,500 depending on how far behind the file is and how much cleanup is needed before the package can be assembled.

Best time to start: November or early December. By then we can spot any cleanup issues, finish them in December, close the year cleanly in January, and get the package to your CPA by mid-February when their workload is still manageable. Wait until April and you are filing extensions.