Accounting Cleanup in the United States
We fix the mess underneath your numbers so every report can be trusted. Delivered to US GAAP for US businesses, priced in USD.
A US cleanup is not the same job as a catch-up. The periods exist, the reports run, and the numbers are quietly wrong — an owner draw sitting in expenses, a chart of accounts inherited from a template, an undeposited-funds balance nobody has touched in two years. Cleanup fixes the structure underneath the reports.
The consequences show up in two places. The 1120 or 1120-S is prepared from these numbers, so a misstatement propagates into a filed return; and sales tax collected but sitting in the wrong account is a state liability regardless of how it was recorded. We reconcile to statement, correct equity and opening balances, and quantify anything that has to be disclosed.
The deadlines we track against your ledger.
| Obligation | Frequency | Due | Authority |
|---|---|---|---|
| Form 1120 (C-corporation return)C-corporations on a calendar year | Annual | 15 April | IRS |
| Form 1120-S / Form 1065 (S-corp and partnership returns)S-corporations and partnerships on a calendar year | Annual | 15 March | IRS |
| State sales-tax returnsBusinesses with economic or physical nexus in a state | Monthly | Commonly the 20th of the following month — set by each state and by filing frequency | State 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.
Accounting Cleanup deliverables
- Chart-of-accounts restructure
- Duplicate & error removal
- Re-categorisation of mis-coded transactions
- Reconciliation error correction
- Opening-balance and equity clean-up
QuickBooks Online
We work in your QuickBooks Online or NetSuite file and deliver a written diagnostic before touching anything, so you can see the scope of the damage and the fixed price for repairing it before work starts.
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.
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.
- Professional bodyAICPAAmerican Institute of Certified Public AccountantsSets US professional and ethical standards for CPAs.
- Standards setterFASBFinancial Accounting Standards BoardIssues the US GAAP codification we prepare accounts to.
- RegulatorIRSInternal Revenue ServiceFederal tax authority — filings, deadlines and guidance.
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.
Accounting Cleanup in United States
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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.