Get a Handle on Your Finances with Red Bike Accounting & Bookkeeping Services

Work on your business, not on receipts and reconciliations.

Since 2009, we’ve worked with hundreds of business owners who started out doing their own bookkeeping and accounting (or talking their spouse or cousin into doing it!). How many of these struggles are painfully familiar to you? 

Receipt Scramble

It’s tax time…where the heck are my receipts?!?

Bookkeeping Fatigue

That heavy feeling when you’ve put bookkeeping off too long again

Reconciliation Frustration

Why aren’t my accounts reconciling?

Vacation, Interrupted

Payroll time…excuse me, family

Financial Confusion

What do these numbers mean? Where is my cash?

Payroll Panic

My customers better pay so I can make payroll….

The Truth About Your Competitors

If bookkeeping feels like the heaviest item on your to-do list, it’s time to delegate and quit DIY.

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of small business owners have been kept up at night by concerns about cash flow (Intuit)
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of small business owners say that bookkeeping and taxes are the worst part of owning a business (National Small Business Association)
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of small business owners spend 3+ hours per week on bookkeeping and other financial management tasks (TD Bank)

How to Have a Thriving Business

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success rate for small businesses that look at financial statements weekly (Netsuite)
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of small business owners who experienced growth in the past year cited effective financial management as a key factor (Sage)

Introducing Red Bike Advisors Accounting & Bookkeeping Services

Flat, Transparent Pricing

In your free strategy session, we uncover your exact needs and propose a complete solution to help you achieve your business goals. No hidden costs, upcharges, or billing in six-minute increments.

Two Service Tiers

Our Growth and Expansion tiers are designed to give you exactly the level of accounting and bookkeeping support you need at your current growth stage, with optional add-ons.

Breakaway Business Packages

Customize your service package with add-on services including virtual CFO and tax strategy & filing services.

Accounting Starter
Build a solid financial foundation with accurate and up-to-date books. Starts at

$550/month

Ideal for growing companies with up to $1M revenue

  • Month-end close
  • Monthly financial statements delivered 15th of month
  • Up to 2 hours/month email support
Accounting Growth
Tailor a strong financial foundation with accurate and up-to-date books. Starts at

$1,100/month

Ideal for growing companies with $1M+ revenue

  • Sr. Accountant monthly reviews
  • Real-time weekly financial data updates
  • Monthly financial statements delivered 15th of month
  • As-needed year-round email support

*Pricing scales based on complexity of your business model, number of transactions, accounts, etc., plus any optional add-ons. We’ll customize your plan during your free strategy session.

Each Plan Includes

Optional Add-Ons

What Clients Say

Don’t take our word for it: hear directly from some of the 400+ clients who trust us with their finance & tax strategy.

Who are Red Bike Advisors Accounting & Bookkeeping Services for?

A True Investment

Red Bike Advisors Accounting & Bookkeeping Services aren’t a cost center, but a “sleep well at night” center.

Do It Yourself
Full-Time Staff
Red Bike Advisors
  • Never enough time
  • Not your favorite task
  • Worried about cash
  • Unsure everything is correct

Bookkeeper: $43K salary + benefits


Sr. Accountant: $87K salary + benefits

Accounting & Bookkeeping Service

  • Includes financial reporting, reconciliations, and monthly meetings
  • Tax strategy optional

Average annual investment: $15K

Peace of Mind: Priceless!

Our Process

Every business has a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting rhythm. In our lifecycle for Accounting & Bookkeeping, we cycle through the full calendar year as your strategic partner.

Discovery

Diagnostic review of Quickbooks and related software and processes. Recommendation: Report on our findings and recommended service packages.

Catch-up/Clean-Up

Required catch-up and/or clean-up work such as performing reconciliations, entering historic transactions, updating the balance sheet, and updating or streamlining the chart of accounts.

Operationalize

Technology implementations like Quickbooks Online and Gusto; data import and process documentation and implementation.

Execute

Ongoing cadence of bookkeeping, accounting, meeting, and reporting. Delivery of "Know Your Numbers" monthly financial reports.

Red Bike Advisors Financial Fitness Framework

Clean books and regular reviews are the foundation of a strong financial position. And if you really want to break away from the pack of competition, layer in tax planning and preparation and strategic financial planning with our Virtual CFO services.

Frequently Asked Questions

Accounting & Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is likely what you did yourself or had a family member do for you when you first started your business. It’s the daily work of identifying, classifying, and recording all transactions of the company. Bookkeepers often pay bills, run payroll, and other similar work that keeps the financial lifeblood of the business pulsing. 

Accounting is a higher level review role of the work of the bookkeeper, ensuring that the financial records and statements are correctly reconciled and categorized. Accountants are responsible for reporting on the business finances and providing an overview of the financial health of the company, as well as ensuring the books are tax-ready.

As soon as possible after you start your business–ideally you’d make the investment to ensure that you have a clear, up-to-date picture of the financial health of your business from the start. (Plus, most business owners would put accounting at the BOTTOM of their list of interesting things they want to do during the day.) 

But, as the Chinese proverb says, “The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second-best time is now.” In other words, you’re here because you’ve realized how valuable your time is and that what you’re doing today with your books and taxes is holding your business back. So don’t wait–get your finances in order today.

We love setting up books from scratch, because we get the opportunity to do it right from the start. That said, we bring on many clients with not-so-clean books, and we do catch-up and clean-up to get them back into great shape. Here are some of the common mistakes we see when taking over many of our small business owner clients’ books:

  • Accounts payable not cleared against payments
  • Incorrect opening balances of accounts
  • Bank and credit card accounts not reconciled properly
  • Balance sheet not set up correctly to account for setup expenses, loans, etc.
  • Chart of accounts not optimized for business insights and tax savings

(By the way, if this sounds like a foreign language to you, that’s what we’re here for! It’s truly amazing how clean, up-to-date books can transform your view of your business finances. You don’t necessarily need to know every stage of how the sausage is made to enjoy the end result.)

In addition to monthly bookkeeping and accounting services, we offer payroll setup and/or ongoing payroll; bill pay; Quickbooks Online setup and training; clean-up and catch-up work; and Virtual CFO strategic finance services that range from a monthly look at your historical financials to dedicated financial planning services such as cash flow forecasting and scenario planning. 

We also typically bundle tax strategy and filing services with monthly accounting services so you can rest easy knowing your financial house is in order.

We believe that clean books are the foundation for strategic tax planning, and that having your accounting team and tax team under the same virtual roof means that we can work together to minimize your tax burden. We typically bundle together monthly bookkeeping and accounting services with business tax preparation and planning and (if applicable) individual tax preparation and planning. 

That said, we offer a free Strategy Session with you to understand your business and growth goals, then proposed a customized but fixed price for everything you need to achieve those goals. Why don’t you go ahead and get your session booked now?

Not to sound like a lawyer, but it depends, primarily on the size of your business and the number of transactions. We typically bundle together monthly bookkeeping and accounting services with business tax preparation and planning and (if applicable) individual tax preparation and planning and Virtual CFO services. We offer a free strategy session to discuss your needs and how we can help you reach your business goals with monthly bookkeeping, tax strategy and filing, and virtual CFO services as needed. Meanwhile, check out our pricing page for typical package prices.

On the bookkeeping front, we work with small but growing businesses in all industries that are earning between $500K and $20M in revenue. While there are certainly industry-specific nuances, drivers, and KPIs, every small business is focused on one or more of these key drivers: Revenue growth, profit growth, determining and saving the right amount of working capital, fostering a customer-centric culture, attracting, recruiting, and retaining top talent, and creating transferable business value for when you’re ready to exit.

Clean books are the foundation for smart tax strategy and healthy financial decisions, and we recommend professional bookkeeping and accounting services to every small business owner who would rather work on your business, not receipts and reconciliations. 

Finally, we do have a particular focus on dentists & medical professionals as well as B2B services and professional services.

Our mission at Red Bike Advisors is to equip our clients with financial and tax insights that create exponential value for their companies, customers, employees, and families—and ultimately create generational wealth. Like you, our CEO Gretchen Roberts is a small business owner who has always craved a strategic relationship with her finance, tax and accounting partner, but many accounting and tax firms reactively call once a year for tax papers.

Working with a firm dedicated to your monthly financials ensures that you’re always able to make timely business decisions and are tax-ready.

If you crave that kind of relationship with your finance & tax strategy advisor, then give us a shout.

Absolutely! Our Virtual CFO services take your squeaky-clean books and up-to-date financial reporting to the next level with services like cashflow forecasting, scenario planning, and KPI tracking. And having a strategic financial advisor to bounce ideas around with as an ancillary member of your management team is priceless. You can explore our VCFO services here, or book a free strategy session to discuss your specific needs.

From Bookkeeping Chaos to Clarity
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