🚨 From a forensic accountant who audits bad bookkeepers and horrendous books for a living

The fastest way I know your bookkeeper is unqualified? (Queue suspenseful music)

The balance sheet doesn’t make sense —
and they can’t explain it.

Tell me if these statements sound familiar:
“It’s close enough.”
“QuickBooks does that.”
“We’ll fix it at year-end.”
“That’s how it’s always been”
“The CPA will fix it at year-end”
“It doesn’t affect the P&L”

Those aren’t explanations. They’re cover stories.
When I open your file and see:
• retained earnings moving with no rationale
• loans that don’t amortize
• cash that doesn’t reconcile
• equity used as a junk drawer

I don’t see “messy bookkeeping.” I see untested financial data and untested data is how:
• fraud hides
• taxes get misstated
• owners make bad decisions with confidence

Bottom line:
If the balance sheet can’t survive basic questioning, the bookkeeper can’t survive scrutiny.