Expert Bookkeeping
Day-to-day accounting tasks
Monthly reconciliation procedures
Monthly financial packages
Starting at $500/month
Accounting Support
Day-to-day accounting tasks
Monthly reconciliation procedures
Customized monthly financial packages
Additional accounting services include:
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Accounts receivable and invoicing
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Accounts payable and vendor management
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Sales tax tracking and remittance
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Other ongoing tasks/deliverables
Starting at $1,000/month
CFO Services
Need something more?
From financial budgeting to cash flow management, let's discuss help we can help you take control of your books in an active way
Starting at $3,000/month
FAQs
Q:
Do you offer bookkeeping and accounting services for small businesses in Salt Lake City?
A:
Yes. We support solo entrepreneurs, contractors, and small to mid-sized businesses throughout Salt Lake City and the surrounding area. Our team provides monthly bookkeeping, clean-ups, tax-ready financials, payroll support, and ongoing guidance tailored to local industries. We are happy to meet to discuss anytime.
Q:
Can you help with Utah tax requirements and local business filings?
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Absolutely. We help Salt Lake City business owners stay compliant with Utah tax rules, sales tax filings, annual reports, and other required local submissions. We make sure your books are accurate, deadlines are met, and your business stays in good standing year-round.
Hear what our clients are saying:
Monica G.
Business Owner
“Helped me so much and have recommended expense reclassifications that have boosted profits....”
Jeff H.
Co-founder of Tax & Advisory Firm
“Pass along existing client work, freeing up bandwidth for high-end projects…”
Bookkeeping for the Way Renton Businesses Actually Operate
Renton has a broad business base that includes professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, aerospace and logistics. Those businesses do not all need the same bookkeeping setup.
A professional services firm may care most about payroll, contractor costs and profitability by service line. A contractor may need cleaner job costing and vehicle expense tracking. A healthcare practice may have a heavier payroll, equipment and merchant-processing structure.
The books should reflect how the company actually operates, not force every business into the same generic chart of accounts.
When the Books Have Outgrown the Original Setup
QuickBooks files often become harder to use as a business grows. New accounts get added without a clear structure, similar expenses are coded differently, old balances carry forward and owner activity can become mixed with day-to-day operations.
That may not cause an obvious problem at first, but it can make the Profit & Loss and Balance Sheet harder to trust.
When we take over books like this, we focus first on simplifying the structure, correcting the issues that matter and creating a setup the business can continue using month after month
What We Review Before Ongoing Bookkeeping Begins
When First Valley Accounting takes over an existing set of books, we do not assume the prior setup is correct. We review the file to understand what is working, what needs cleanup and what could create problems later.
That review may include bank and credit card reconciliations, accounts receivable and payable, loans, payroll liabilities, fixed assets, owner and equity accounts, old outstanding balances and unusual items that have carried forward for months or years.
The goal is to resolve the important issues before routine monthly bookkeeping begins, instead of allowing old problems to keep showing up in new reports.
A Better View of Payroll, Contractors and Operating Costs
For many Renton businesses, the most useful reporting starts with getting the major operating costs into the right places.
Payroll, contractors, vehicles, equipment, software, facilities and vendor costs can tell very different stories when they are tracked clearly. If everything is pushed into broad expense categories, it becomes difficult to see why margins changed or where additional cash is being used.
A practical bookkeeping structure should make those changes easier to spot without making the books unnecessarily complicated.
What Your Monthly Financials Should Tell You
Good bookkeeping should make basic business questions easier to answer.
Are we actually profitable? Where did the cash go? Are payroll or operating costs rising faster than revenue? Do the bank and credit card balances agree with the books? Are old customer balances or unpaid bills still sitting open? Does the Balance Sheet make sense?
If those questions are difficult to answer, the problem is often not the financial report itself. It is the bookkeeping underneath it.
Our goal is to keep the underlying records clean enough that the monthly numbers can actually be used to run the business.
Our Team
Ryan Minner
Client Management
Ryan Baker
Operations & Delivery
Chad Reed
Risk & Quality
Hannah Junio
Accounting Manager
Suzette Gaerlan
Accounting Manager
Rico Doca
Bookkeeper
Macel Mendoza
Bookkeeper
Joan Tamayo
Bookkeeper
Jamie Sanchez
Executive Assistant