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🇺🇸 United States · US GAAP

Accounting & CFO services for United States businesses.

US founders face the highest local accounting costs in the world and a uniquely fragmented multi-state tax system. We deliver US-GAAP-grade books and nexus monitoring at a fraction of a local hire.

The published rate card · USD

What a United States firm charges, and what Salt charges.

Most outsourced providers quote only on request. Every figure on this page is published, in USD, for United States work — so you can hold it against a quote you already have instead of booking a call to find out.

Salt's published monthly bookkeeping price for United States compared with what a local firm charges for the same scope, in USD
TierA local firm chargesSalt publishesYou keep
Essentialup to 150 transactions a month$400$700a month$400a monthUp to $300 a month
Growth150–500 transactions a month$800$1,800a month$800a monthUp to $1,000 a month
Scale500–1,000 transactions a month$1,500$3,000a month$1,500a monthUp to $1,500 a month

Above 1,000 transactions a month — quoted in 24 hours.

“A local firm charges” is the going rate for the same scope in United States, in USD, benchmarked September 2026. Salt's card is reviewed on 1 December 2026. Where Salt sits inside the bottom of the local range rather than under it, the row says so.

Compliance we handle

  • 1099 contractor tracking
  • State sales-tax nexus
  • Federal & state filings
  • US GAAP reporting

Local detail

Currency
USD ($)
Standards
US GAAP
Key forms
1120, 1120S, 1065, 1040, State sales-tax returns
Software
QuickBooks Online, NetSuite, Xero
United States software stack

QuickBooks Online

NetSuiteXeroBill.comGustoAvalara

QuickBooks Online dominates US SMB accounting, and multi-state sales tax usually means bolting on Avalara or TaxJar rather than relying on native tax tables.

United States filing calendar

The deadlines we track against your ledger.

Recurring United States compliance deadlines and the authority each is filed with
ObligationFrequencyDueAuthority
Form 1120-S / Form 1065 (S-corp and partnership returns)S-corporations and partnerships on a calendar yearAnnual15 MarchIRS
Form 1120 (C-corporation return)C-corporations on a calendar yearAnnual15 AprilIRS
1099-NEC and W-2 to recipients and the IRSAny business paying contractors or employeesAnnual31 JanuaryIRS
Estimated tax instalmentsQuarterly15 April, 15 June, 15 September, 15 JanuaryIRS
State sales-tax returnsBusinesses with economic or physical nexus in a stateMonthlyCommonly the 20th of the following month — set by each state and by filing frequencyState DOR

Last reviewed against the source . These are the standard dates. Extensions through a registered agent, a non-calendar year end, and volume-based filing frequencies all shift them — confirm your own dates with IRS. This is general information, not tax advice.

Every service in United States

What we deliver for US businesses.

Thirteen services across three teams, each described for the United States specifically rather than in general. Compliance is deliberately a separate team from bookkeeping, so liability and pricing stay clean.

Bookkeeping Team

Bookkeeping in United States

$400 per month · up to 150 transactions a month · USD

US bookkeeping breaks on two things: state sales-tax nexus nobody noticed accruing, and contractor payments that were never coded as reportable. We keep QuickBooks Online reconciled weekly so the 31 January 1099-NEC and W-2 run is a report rather than a reconstruction, and so revenue is tagged by destination state before a $100,000 threshold turns into a registration you have already missed.

Read the United States bookkeeping guide

Catch-Up Bookkeeping in United States

$225 per month of backlog · USD

A US catch-up is almost always triggered by a return you cannot file. We work backwards from whichever deadline bites first — 15 March for an S-corporation or partnership, 15 April for a C-corporation — and rebuild the periods behind it. Unregistered state sales-tax exposure is the part clients rarely expect, so we reconstruct revenue by state at the same time and size it before you register.

Read the United States catch-up bookkeeping guide

Accounting Cleanup in United States

$3,750 12-month reconstruction · USD

A US cleanup surfaces the same three things again and again: a chart of accounts inherited from a template, owner draws sitting in expenses, and sales tax collected in a state but never remitted. We reconcile every account to statement, correct equity and opening balances, and quantify the state exposure so it is resolved deliberately rather than discovered in diligence.

Read the United States accounting cleanup guide

Accounts Payable in United States

$1,000 per month · 50–300 invoices · USD

US accounts payable carries the 1099 problem. Every contractor paid through AP needs a W-9 on file, because 1099-NEC is due to recipients and the IRS on 31 January and reconstructing a year of vendor data in January never goes well. We run AP through Bill.com, make W-9 collection part of vendor onboarding, and code payments so year-end reporting is already done.

Accounts Payable in United States

Accounts Receivable in United States

$800 per month · USD

US receivables run into sales tax the moment you invoice across state lines. Charging the wrong rate — or none, in a state where you have nexus — creates a liability you owe whether or not the customer ever pays. We invoice with tax applied through Avalara or TaxJar, chase on a published schedule, and report DSO alongside the state-by-state tax position.

Accounts Receivable in United States

Payroll in United States

$200 per month · up to 10 staff · USD

US payroll is two problems wearing one name: paying people correctly across state lines, and the worker-classification question underneath it. Contractors coded as ordinary vendors all year become a 31 January scramble, because 1099-NEC and W-2 both land that day. We run payroll through Gusto or QuickBooks Payroll, reconcile it to the ledger monthly, and keep contractor data clean year-round.

Payroll in United States

Controller in United States

$3,000 per month · USD

A US controller earns their keep at the accrual boundary. Most QuickBooks files run on cash, which is fine right up until revenue recognition, deferred revenue or an investor asks for GAAP statements. We own the close, move you to accrual under US GAAP, and produce a management pack that ties to the 1120 or 1120-S your CPA will file — not a second set of numbers.

Read the United States controller guide

Virtual CFO in United States

$3,500 per month · USD

A US virtual CFO spends most of the year on cash timing. Estimated tax instalments fall on 15 April, 15 June, 15 September and 15 January, the annual return follows on 15 March or 15 April depending on entity type, and new state sales-tax registrations quietly add liabilities in between. We forecast the whole picture so tax is a line in the model rather than a surprise.

Read the United States virtual cfo guide

Compliance Team

Tax Preparation in United States

$350 per return · USD

US tax preparation is entity-shaped before it is anything else. An S-corporation or partnership return is due 15 March, a C-corporation return 15 April, and estimated instalments run quarterly through the year. We prepare the return and the supporting workpapers to a review-ready standard and coordinate with your CPA or enrolled agent, who signs and files. Multi-state filings are scoped separately, because nexus is.

Read the United States tax preparation guide

Sales Tax · VAT · GST in United States

$225 per month, managed · USD

There is no federal sales tax in the United States — only thousands of state and local jurisdictions, each with its own rate, registration and due date. Economic nexus, commonly $100,000 in sales or 200 transactions into a state, creates the obligation with no physical presence at all. We monitor thresholds state by state and file on each state's own calendar.

Read the United States sales tax · vat · gst guide

Advisory & Systems

Fundraising Finance in United States

$8,000 per project · USD

US diligence is the most standardised in the world and the least forgiving. Investors expect accrual US GAAP statements, ASC 606 revenue recognition, a cap table that reconciles to the ledger, and a current 409A. Unregistered state sales-tax exposure is the classic late discovery. We build the data room and quantify the exposures before an investor's accountant finds them.

Get a quote for fundraising finance in United States

Tech Stack Migration in United States

$1,750 per entity · standard · USD

A US migration is usually a move off spreadsheets or a legacy desktop file onto QuickBooks Online or NetSuite, and the hard part is never the data — it is the sales-tax engine. We wire Avalara or TaxJar so rate determination and nexus tracking run without maintenance, standardise the chart of accounts for US GAAP, and reconcile opening balances to the last filed return.

Get a quote for tech stack migration in United States

White-Label Accounting in United States

US firms come to us in January and leave in May. The bottleneck is rarely review capacity — it is preparation: workpapers, schedules, reconciliations and the 1120 and 1120-S packages that have to be ready before a partner can sign anything. We work inside your firm's systems under your naming conventions and deliver review-ready files. Your CPA reviews, signs and files.

Read the United States white-label accounting guide
What this costs in practice

A worked example, in your currency.

A Delaware-incorporated SaaS company, 4,200 transactions a month, selling into 14 states.

In-house bookkeeper (fully loaded, per month)
$5,800
Salt bookkeeping + controller layer
$1,850
Monthly saving
$3,950

Fully loaded cost assumes salary plus payroll taxes, benefits, software seats and management time — not base salary alone.

Everything else on the card

The rest of the United States price list.

Added when you need them, priced the same way — a published figure in USD, not a range that resolves on a call.

Salt's published prices for United States, by service line, in USD
ServiceBasisPrice
Catch-up bookkeepingper month of backlog$225
Accounting cleanup12-month reconstruction$3,750
Accounts payableper month · 50–300 invoices$1,000
Accounts receivableper month$800
Payroll — baseper month · up to 10 staff$200
Payroll — per headper employee per month$10
Sales tax · VAT · GST · BASper filing$100
Sales tax · VAT · GST · BASper month, managed$225
Business tax returnper return$1,200
Personal / director returnper return$350
Controller / management accountsper month$3,000
Virtual CFOper month$3,500
Tech stack migrationper entity · standard$1,750
Fundraising financeper project$8,000

Busy-season surge

Standard turnaround is 48–72 hours. A turnaround under 48 hours during peak season is charged at +25% on the line above. Standard turnaround is the default; the surcharge applies only when you ask for the faster one.

Before you compare it to anything

What the price does not cover.

Who actually does the work.

Salt Accounting Group is a front-end brand. Delivery is by contracted partner firms working to Salt's scope and review. Salt holds no offices, no employees and no professional registration in United States, and nothing on this page should be read as a claim to any. Every engagement runs under a multi-jurisdictional NDA, agreed before access to your file is set up.

Sales tax is quoted state by state.

Sales tax nexus is assessed per state, and each additional state in which you have nexus is scoped and quoted separately — never assumed into the monthly price. Filing work itself is priced at $100 per filing, or $225 a month managed. 1099 tracking and state registrations are handled as part of that scoping, not after a notice arrives.

In-house against Salt

What the United States alternative costs.

An in-house us bookkeeper
$75,000 – $107,000 a yearPublished comparator: a fully-loaded bookkeeper salary. Not a Salt price.
Salt, on the card above
$4,800 – $18,000 a yearEssential through Scale, annualised. $400 – $1,500 a month.

The difference, taken at its worstAt least $57,000 a yearThat is the cheapest in-house figure, $75,000a year, set against Salt's most expensive published tier, $18,000 a year. Every other pairing is a larger gap.

The two are not like for like and it would be dishonest to present them as such: an in-house hire is one person's full working week, while Salt's tiers are priced by transaction volume. Compare the cost of getting the books done, not the cost of a desk.

Built for the US pain points we hear most: Multi-state nexus complexity · High local CPA costs · Fragmented state filing rules.

Standards and authorities

The framework your United States accounts are held to.

We prepare to US GAAP, as codified by the FASB. These are the bodies that set that framework and the authorities you file with — linked so you can verify the standard rather than take our word for it.

Listed for reference. Salt Accounting Group is not stating membership, registration or affiliation with any of these organisations. Where a filing must be lodged by a registered local agent, it is — your agent keeps the lodgement and the professional sign-off.

Answers

United States — questions

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Finance operations built for United States.

Tell us where you trade and what shape the books are in. You get scope, price and a start date in writing within one business day — no obligation.

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