Overflow cleanup projects

Where the backlog comes from

A practice picks up a bought book of clients, inherits a file nobody has touched since a BAS quarter two years back, or simply runs out of hours during its own busy stretch. Whatever the cause, the fix is the same: a fixed-scope project that clears the backlog without pulling staff off billable, ongoing client work.

Scoping before touching a single transaction

Before anything is worked, we walk the backlog with your practice: how many months, which accounts, and whether the books sit in Xero, MYOB or QuickBooks Online. That conversation ends in one fixed price, agreed up front, so a messier-than-expected file does not turn into a moving target on cost.

Working oldest month first

Every cleanup runs oldest month to newest, because each month's closing balance has to feed the next month's opening balance correctly or the whole run is wrong. Along the way, common problems surface: a bank feed duplicating the same deposit, a director's personal fuel bill coded to the business, GST claimed against a supplier invoice that turns out to carry no GST at all. Each fix is written into an adjustments log, dated, with a plain-English reason.

A record your practice can stand behind

Everything lands in one package: the reconciled ledgers, a profit and loss and balance sheet spanning the cleanup period, and the adjustments log behind them, all formatted for your practice to hand to the client under its own name. One line stays outside our scope deliberately: whether a previously lodged BAS or return now needs amending is a call for your practice's TPB-registered agent and the client, not for us.

Keeping the backlog from returning

Once the backlog is cleared, most practices move the client straight onto ongoing white-label bookkeeping or a dedicated staff pod, so the next BAS quarter starts from a clean file instead of a growing pile.