B&H provides outsourced QuickBooks accounting, setup, and monthly maintenance for Palo Alto small businesses — QuickBooks Online and Desktop expertise, flat-rate monthly plans, and direct access to your accountant. Home to Stanford University and Sand Hill Road VC firms, Palo Alto has one of the highest concentrations of funded startups, serial entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth professionals in the country.
Home to Stanford University and Sand Hill Road VC firms, Palo Alto has one of the highest concentrations of funded startups, serial entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth professionals in the country.
One flat monthly price covers your service with no hourly billing or surprise invoices. You always know what you pay, making it easy to budget for professional accounting help.
When you call or email, Bill or Hannah responds, not a call center or account manager. You get the same accountant every month who knows your Palo Alto business inside and out.
Palo Alto maintains its own minimum wage: $18.85/hr as of January 1, 2026. We apply the current Palo Alto rate automatically across our payroll and bookkeeping services before each effective date.
We serve Palo Alto businesses alongside clients from Milpitas to Santa Clara, knowing the California tax rules, CDTFA filing requirements, and EDD payroll compliance that affect your business.
Full QuickBooks Online setup: company file creation, chart of accounts built for your industry, bank and credit card feed connections, opening balance entry, and first reconciliation completed before handoff.
Monthly reconciliation of all accounts, transaction categorization, and financial report generation maintained in QuickBooks Online every month without you lifting a finger.
Books in bad shape? We diagnose duplicate entries, incorrect categorization, and unreconciled accounts, then clean them up completely. We also handle months or years of catch-up accounting.
We integrate payroll into your QuickBooks so every payroll run posts correctly to the general ledger, with payroll expenses, liabilities, and employer tax contributions all reconciled monthly.
QuickBooks class tracking, job costing, and project profitability reports for Palo Alto businesses that need to track profitability by client, project, or location.
Monthly financial reports in an easy-to-read format: income by service line, expense by category, year-over-year comparisons. Reports your lender or investors will understand.
Yes. B&H provides outsourced QuickBooks accounting for Palo Alto businesses: setup, monthly maintenance, catch-up accounting, and financial reporting. We serve clients remotely through our secure portal. Call 408-256-0339.
We work primarily with QuickBooks Online for its real-time access and bank feed integration, but also support QuickBooks Desktop when needed. For new Palo Alto clients starting fresh, we recommend QuickBooks Online.
Yes. QuickBooks cleanup is one of our most common engagements. We assess the extent of the problem, quote a flat catch-up fee, and deliver clean, reconciled books. Many Palo Alto businesses come to us after outgrowing a part-time bookkeeper or DIY approach.
Yes. We integrate payroll into your QuickBooks so every pay run posts correctly to the general ledger. Palo Alto maintains its own minimum wage: $18.85/hr as of January 1, 2026. For Palo Alto businesses using our payroll service, we handle both so payroll runs correctly and accounting stays clean.
Federal and California business and individual tax returns for Palo Alto small businesses and residents. Quarterly estimated tax planning included.
Palo Alto tax preparation →Flat-rate payroll for Palo Alto businesses via SurePayroll: direct deposit, quarterly filings, W-2s, and automatic compliance with Palo Alto minimum wage of $18.85/hr.
Palo Alto payroll services →See exactly how B&H monthly accounting works: upload, reconcile, report. Most Palo Alto clients spend under 20 minutes a month on their books.
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