Bookkeeping, payroll, and fractional CFO services for Utah's growing businesses.

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Retail & Specialty Shops

Every item on your shelf is cash waiting to move. Or cash slowly dying. We help you know the difference.

Cash on Shelves

That cute display near the register? That’s $4,000 in cash sitting there. The back room full of last season’s inventory? Another $12,000 that might never come back.

Retail is an inventory game. Buy smart and it turns into profit. Buy wrong and it turns into clearance racks and write-offs. The tricky part is knowing which is which before it’s too late to do anything about it.

We help you track what’s moving, what’s sitting, and what’s quietly bleeding money.

You Loved the Product First

Nobody opens a boutique because they’re passionate about inventory management. You opened it because you loved the product. You had taste. You knew what people wanted before they knew it themselves.

Then you discovered the rest of it. Purchase orders. Vendor terms. Markdowns. Shrinkage. Sales tax in three states because you started selling online. The product is still the fun part. Everything else is the cost of doing what you love.

Who We Work With

Clothing boutiques, gift shops, florists, pet supply, jewelry stores, consignment, hobby shops, bookstores, home décor. If you sell physical products, we understand your world.

Where You Are

Doing well enough to have real inventory and real complexity. Too busy selling to spend hours on the books. That’s where we come in.

November Decides the Year

Some retail shops do 40% of their annual revenue in November and December. Two months to make or break the year. The other ten months are about staying alive long enough to get there.

That kind of seasonality requires planning. You need cash to buy holiday inventory in September. You need to manage lean months without panic. You need to know if a slow February is normal or a sign of something wrong.

Cash Flow Planning

We help you forecast the slow months and build reserves during the rush. Holiday buying decisions backed by real numbers, not hope.

Year-Over-Year Comparison

Is this March worse than last March or about the same? We track the patterns so you know when to worry and when it’s just the cycle.

Where the Money Disappears

Shrinkage. Nice word for a painful reality. Stuff walks off. Gets damaged. Gets miscounted. A vendor shorts you and nobody notices. A return goes back on the shelf but never back into the system. It adds up slowly and shows up all at once when you do inventory.

Inventory Tracking

What you bought, what you sold, what you should have left. We reconcile the numbers so surprises don’t wait until year-end.

Margin by Category

Some product lines carry the store. Others barely break even. We help you see which is which so you can buy smarter.

Multi-Channel Sales

Store, website, pop-ups, markets. Revenue from everywhere, all needing to land in the same books correctly. We tie it together.

Sales Tax

Selling online means nexus in states you’ve never visited. We help you stay compliant before a notice shows up.

Utah's Trusted Bookkeeping Firm

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Tell us what's going on and we'll let you know if we can help. We'll ask a few questions and give you a straightforward quote.

Utah bookkeeping firm specializing in startups and small businesses. We handle bookkeeping, payroll, CFO services, and capital raise support. Locally owned in Saratoga Springs, serving the Wasatch Front.

Location

457 W Flora Dr, Saratoga Springs, UT 84045

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