The Accounting Department Services
Meet The Accounting Department
The first step in our partnership is to ensure you and The Accounting Department are a good match. We firmly believe that time spent in a consultation is invaluable; allowing us to learn as much as we can about your business, and have you learn about our practices. Our first consultation is always gratis. We believe in active listening, and use this meeting time to understand your needs and address all of your questions and concerns.
During our consultation we will cover the following:
- Review The Accounting Departments practices and philosophy
- Assess what needs you have, and customize an Engagement Letter to fulfill those needs
- Develop a realistic timeframe and budget for the project
After our meeting, as a part of our free consultation, we will provide you with:
- An estimate for our services as specified: one-time, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or as needed
- Suggestions on software, installation, upload, or training
- Return completed Engagement Letter outlining all of the above for your review and acceptance to begin work
What The Accounting Department Will Do For You
The Accounting Department offers you a full range of computerized services to alleviate your bookkeeping and accounting burdens. Services that can be provided are:
- Accounts receivable: including invoicing, managing receivables and, when necessary, collections
- Accounts payable: including paying bills, writing checks and vendor management as necessary
- Payroll Processing: including check and tax deposit calculations and form filing
- Budgets and Projections
- Bank/credit card reconciliations
- Month/quarter/year end reports
- QuickBooks clean-up and customization, troubleshooting
- Annual Informational Tax Returns that include 1099 and Personal Property Tax
- Document management
All of our work is guaranteed CPA ready.
Not Your Run of the Mill Bookkeeping Firm
In addition to your accounting needs, The Accounting Department offers several business services that set us apart from being just another bookkeeping business:
- Create procedures and processes
- Tips and implementation on “Greening” your office and Paperless practices
- Internet research
- Provide and install bookkeeping and accounting software
- Training for you or your employees on any new accounting practices
- Recommend accounting or professional software to automate and ease business processes
- Assist you with client management ideas, such as using an email newsletter, recommending a CRM software or by using SendOutCards*
The Accounting Department takes great responsibility in developing strong, trusting and respectful relationships with Strategic Business Partners. We are able to give our stamp of approval to solution providers from CPA’s to IT resources, Consulting Professionals to Website Designers. If we cannot provide a direct solution to grow and better your business, we know we have a partner in our arsenal of Professionals that can! Please see our Business Resources page for more information.
Staying On The Cutting Edge
The Accounting Department, being located in Scappoose, OR, considers remote office work a way of life. Becoming remote makes us more efficient, allowing us and our clients access from anywhere and allowing our employees to work from home easily, which reduces commuter traffic, emissions and time.
The Accounting Department is also taking great strides to become fully “green” by Autumn, 2010. We are implementing paperless practices and perfecting tools for ourselves and clients to use. To read more how much we/you can impact our environment using simple techniques, please visit “The Accounting Coach” blog.
Our business spans the Portland Metro Area and beyond. There are places we might be able to go that others cannot due to the technology we use. If you are remote, and are comfortable with computer based software platforms, we are the perfect solution for your bookkeeping and business needs!
*SendOutCards is a tool The Accounting Department uses for our own clients. We love this platform so much that we actively promote SendOutCards ourselves. Please visit www.sendoutcards.com/accountingdepartmentinc to send out some free cards and take a peek at this “revolutionary” age-old way of impressing your clients, business partners and even family and friends. As we like to say- “Why be just another email when you can take an opportunity to stand out instead?”
Send Out Cards
