PathFinder Bookkeeping Services

We at Pathfinder Bookkeeping specialize in helping reduce stress and increase profit. By having an accurate set of books, business owners have the time and tools to focus on their passion, providing their products or services to their clients. We are efficient and detailed oriented. We can handle your books remotely and therefore can service clients from Boston to Chicago to San Francisco. Located in Pinellas Park, Florida, we also support and service local businesses in our area including but not limited to St. Petersburg, Largo and Clearwater. We work closely with your accountant to keep communication open between our clients and their accountants.

It’s a FACT…

50% of businesses fail in their first five years (Source: SBA), it just makes good business sense to find ways to increase your chances of success with your business.

What’s the most frequent reason for small business failure?

Why do most small businesses fail? According to a U.S. Bank study, a whopping 82% of businesses that failed cited cash flow problems as a factor in their failure.

Hiring a bookkeeper, using cloud-based software like QuickBooks, and enlisting a CPA can all help to keep your cash flow in check.

As an Independent Contractor, you only pay for services you need without the expense of an employee salary, payroll taxes and office space. We can do the books remotely for a business anywhere in the U.S.

We can handle transactions weekly, monthly or quarterly depending on your needs. Organizing your office work flow and documenting processes for easy transitions is another service we provide.

Benefits of having a knowledgeable bookkeeper are:

• Stay on top of transactions, the more time that goes by, the more difficult it is to do it accurately
• Provide financial reports that can be explained and utilized to make decisions for your company
• Accuracy
• Efficiency
• Monitoring cash flow
• Reduce stress
• Organization
• Help get ready for taxes preparation by Accountant
• Stay on top of taxes (i.e. sales) to be paid

Our bookkeeping services include:

Ongoing Support: Weekly, Monthly or Quarterly; Remote or Onsite

Knowing your numbers will enable you to make informed decisions. We at Pathfinder Bookkeeping can help you keep up to date with your record keeping on a weekly, monthly or quarterly basis. In all cases we work closely with your Accountant to ensure the books are kept in alignment with what is needed to file your tax return. – Read More –

Assessing the Current Situation

Are you wondering how the assessment process works? Once we have both decided to work together, we will determine our starting point. What is the current state of the books or processes and what is our desired outcome? With that in mind we work together to plan out what steps to take to create an accurate set of books and/or the processes we will need to document. – Read More –

Procedure Documentation and Office Organization

“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” –  John Wooden

Often times we just do something to get it done, without thinking about how we may need to access the information in the future. The result can be wasted time and disorganization. We can work with you to determine the best way to do a task based on work flow and help you document the process so that if need be, someone new could step in and do the task. – Read More –

Quickbooks Certified ProAdvisor

Have you come to realize that you don’t really know how to use your Accounting software? Are you embarrassed by the state of your books? (don’t worry, we have seen worse) Programs like Quickbooks are said to be user friendly, but that doesn’t always mean they turn out accurate. If you aren’t sure where your books stand, contact us today for a free consultation. – Read More –

Best Decision

Linda is top notch. She is knowledgeable, professional, customer service oriented, extremely trustworthy. She gets it accomplished. Very organized and reliable. She is flexible. She will tell you what you need to know, not what she thinks you want to hear. Having known Linda professionally and personally for over 20 years I can confidently say that working with her is a decision that no one would regret. Along with wisdom, knowledge and integrity Linda is organized and always follows through. Because of her business acumen Linda was/is the go-to authority with helping franchise owners manage their bookkeeping and back-office. She has business and people savvy which is an uncommon pairing and which makes her an ideal choice.

 – Deanna Tucci Schmitt, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania