Bookkeeping for Cambridge Small Businesses
Monthly bookkeeping for Cambridge businesses. Clean financials, job costing, and payroll from a MetroWest firm serving Greater Boston.
Bookkeeping for Cambridge Businesses
Cambridge gets attention for Kendall Square and the innovation economy, but beneath the biotech headlines are hundreds of small businesses keeping the city running. Contractors renovating historic triple-deckers. Restaurants in the squares. Architects and engineers designing lab build-outs. Service companies maintaining properties across the city. These businesses need accurate books, not another software subscription.
We’re MetroWest bookkeepers who serve clients throughout Greater Boston. Everything happens remotely, which keeps overhead low for both of us. You get monthly financials, clean records at tax time, and someone who understands how service businesses and contractors actually operate.
Monthly Bookkeeping
Monthly Bookkeeping
Transactions categorized, accounts reconciled, books closed every month. You get a P&L and balance sheet that reflect reality, along with a plain-English summary of what changed and why.
Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Behind on the books? We clean up months or years of backlog, fix miscategorizations, and get your records current. Most clients start here before moving to regular monthly service.
Job Costing
Job Costing
For contractors who need to track costs by job and phase. We align your chart of accounts to field reality, tie time and materials back to each project, and produce margin reports you can trust when bidding new work.
Payroll Processing
Payroll Processing
We handle payroll runs, tax deposits, quarterly filings, and year-end W-2s. Your crew gets paid on time, Massachusetts withholding gets filed correctly, and you stop tracking deadlines yourself.
Cambridge Businesses We Work With
Cambridge has a unique mix of old and new. Historic buildings that require specialized renovation work. Universities with constant facility needs. A commercial real estate market where lab space and office build-outs keep contractors busy year-round. Add the restaurants, retail, and professional services that support a city of 120,000 people, and you have a lot of small businesses that need competent bookkeeping.
We work with established businesses, typically $250K to a few million in revenue, that have outgrown doing the books themselves but don’t need a full-time employee handling finances.
Contractors and Trades
Contractors and Trades
Renovation contractors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC techs working on Cambridge’s older buildings and commercial spaces. Job costing, progress billing, retainage tracking, and books that support bonding applications.
Professional Services
Professional Services
Architects, engineers, consultants, and agencies serving the innovation economy and beyond. We track billable hours against projects, manage overhead allocation, and produce financials ready for partner review.
Restaurants and Retail
Restaurants and Retail
Harvard Square, Central Square, Kendall Square. High-volume businesses with thin margins where tracking food costs, labor, and rent actually matters. We keep the numbers current so you can make decisions in real time.
Property and Facility Services
Property and Facility Services
Property managers, building maintenance, cleaning companies, and specialty service providers. We understand the multi-property accounting that these businesses require, having run a property management company ourselves for nearly twenty years.
Common Questions
You're based in Bellingham. Why would a Cambridge business work with you?
Bookkeeping happens digitally. We work remotely with clients across Greater Boston and everything moves through secure file sharing and video calls. We're about 45 minutes away if meeting in person makes sense, but most clients find they don't need it once we're up and running.
What does monthly bookkeeping cost?
Starting at $199 per month depending on transaction volume and the number of accounts. We quote exact pricing after reviewing your business.
Can you handle job costing for contractors?
Yes. Job costing is a specialty. We track costs by job and phase, handle progress billing and retainage, and produce WIP reports that show real margins. Contractors working in Cambridge need books that reflect how the work actually happens.
My books are a mess. Can you fix that?
That's often where we start. We clean up months or years of backlog, fix miscategorizations, reconcile accounts, and get you current before moving to monthly service.
Do you work with my CPA at tax time?
Yes. We prepare year-end financials and coordinate directly with your CPA. Clean handoff, organized documentation, no last-minute scrambles.
Greater Boston's Trusted Bookkeeping Partner
The Next Step:
A Short Conversation
We'll ask a few questions, figure out what you need, and give you a straightforward quote.