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About us

About QBSpecialist: an independent, QuickBooks-only practice.

How to check who we are

QBSpecialist is an independent specialist practice that does one thing: fix and keep QuickBooks files. We are QuickBooks-only, reconciliation-first, and remote, on U.S. business hours (Central Time) — a small, single-specialist practice you can check at every step, not a platform or a marketplace.

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Last reviewed October 2026 by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor

How to check who we are

The credential:
our specialist is a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor. ProAdvisor certification is awarded to individuals and listed in Intuit's Find a ProAdvisor directory; the ProAdvisor page explains what each certification covers. The specialist's name is not published, so you cannot find this practice through a public ProAdvisor-name search. Ask what certification evidence can be provided before agreeing to an engagement.
When we work:
Mon–Sat · 8am–6pm CT — U.S. business hours, Central Time — with a written reply within one business day. Business days are Monday to Saturday.
What you can verify inside your own file:
who has access (Settings → Manage users) and every change made (the audit log) — see security.
  • QuickBooks only — no taxes
  • Independent of Intuit
  • Remote, U.S. business hours

Who we are: a focused QuickBooks practice

QBSpecialist (qbspecialist.com) is a practice built around a single question: is your QuickBooks file right, and can you prove it? Here is who we are, what we take on, and how we work — in plain terms, with nothing to take on faith.

Who carries your file

One specialist, not a rotation A marketplace Contractor A Contractor B Contractor C Contractor D A NEW HANDOFF EVERY MONTH This practice One specialist SAME PERSON, REVIEW TO HANDBACK MONTH 1 MONTH 2 MONTH 3 MONTH 4
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A marketplace hands a file to a different contractor each month, losing context at every handoff; this practice keeps one specialist on the same file from the first review to the final handback.

A marketplace re-staffs your file month to month; a practice carries it — the same specialist from first review to final handback, with nothing lost in a handoff. Illustrative of the staffing model, not a measured statistic.

We are an independent, QuickBooks-only practice — one Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor doing the work, not a platform, a marketplace, or a staffing agency that rotates a new face onto your file each month. QBSpecialist is not affiliated with similarly named firms.

Most "bookkeeping" you find online is one of two things: software that hands the actual work back to you, or a marketplace that matches you with whichever contractor is free this week. We are neither. QBSpecialist is a practice — the person who reviews your file is the person who works it, and the standard the work is held to does not change with staffing. That is a deliberate choice about scale. We take on a limited number of engagements at a time because a file worth fixing deserves attention, not a queue. You will not be routed through a call center, upsold a bundle, or handed to a junior learning on your books. What you get is a specialist who has seen your kind of mess before and knows the order to unwind it in. Continuity is part of the value: because one person carries your file from the first review to the final handback, nothing is lost in a handoff between shifts, and the context built while cleaning up your books is the same context that keeps them clean afterward.

Who does the work

The work is done by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor. Intuit awards ProAdvisor certification to individuals, not to firms, so it is the specialist’s own credential — and the specialist is the person who works your file.

The same person handles your file from the review through to the hand-back, working remotely with U.S. small businesses to reconcile, clean up and catch up QuickBooks files. That continuity is what the "one specialist, never a rotating pool" line elsewhere on this site actually means: the person who reads your file in the review is the person who reconciles it, writes the change map, and answers your questions afterwards. There is no account manager between you and the work, and nothing is handed to a junior once the engagement is sold.

We publish the certification and stop there, deliberately. The practice does not publish a personal name, and you will not find invented client counts, years-in-business figures, awards, or a roster of specialists who do not exist on this page — the editorial standards that govern every page here apply to this one too. What is claimed is what can be stood behind.

What we do — and what we don't

Our core work is three things: cleanup, catch-up and monthly bookkeeping. Around that core we also handle migrations, rescues of broken files, and payroll, sales-tax and 1099 corrections inside the books. We do not file taxes, run or file payroll, or give tax or financial advice.

The focus is the point. A QuickBooks cleanup takes a file that has quietly gone wrong — unreconciled accounts, miscategorized transactions, a bloated chart — and brings it back to a state you can file and borrow against. Catch-up bookkeeping does the same for months or years that simply never got entered. And monthly bookkeeping keeps a clean file clean, so the next year never becomes the next cleanup. What we deliberately leave alone matters just as much: we do not prepare or file your taxes, we do not run or file payroll, and we do not give tax or financial advice — though correcting how payroll, sales tax and 1099s were recorded in the books is squarely our work. That boundary is what keeps the handoff clean — when your CPA needs the books, they arrive tied and documented, not tangled with work outside our lane. If your file is brand-new and needs thoughtful setup rather than repair, that is a different job too, and we will say so.

How we work: reconciliation-first

The verification loop

Reconciliation-first, verified at the end Reconcile TIE TO STATEMENT Map & approve IN WRITING, FIRST Correct ONLY WHAT YOU APPROVED Verified CHECKED VS SNAPSHOT
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Four stages in fixed order: reconcile every account to its statement, map and approve every change in writing, correct only what was approved, then re-run the reports against the saved snapshot so the result is verified rather than asserted.

Every engagement runs the same loop — reconcile first, map and approve each change in writing, correct only what was approved, then re-run the reports against the saved snapshot — so the file is verified, not asserted. Illustrative of the method, not client data.

Every engagement runs the same way — reconciliation first, then correction — and no change is made until you have approved a written plan and can check the result against a saved "before" snapshot.

We fix files in a deliberate order because the order is what makes the fix hold. Until each bank and credit-card account ties to its statement, no number on the profit and loss can be trusted, so reconciliation comes before categorization, the chart of accounts, and everything downstream. From there, the method is verification over assertion: we look before we quote, quote a fixed scope before we work, map every change before we make it, and re-run your reports after — so you can see the file is right rather than take our word for it. Our methodology lays out that loop step by step, and our approach to access and security explains why we take the least access a job needs and remove it the day the work ends. Nothing about how we work is a black box; that is the whole design. The same discipline extends to what we publish — the editorial standards behind this site hold every page to the honesty the bookkeeping is held to, and our dated log of site updates shows exactly what we have published and when.

See the sample written findings and month-end package before deciding whether the way we work fits your business.

Independent by design: not Intuit, no upsell

We are independent of Intuit and take no commission, referral fee, or kickback from any software we recommend — so our advice about your file answers to you, not to a vendor.

Being QuickBooks-only is a matter of depth, not allegiance. We know the product deeply because we work in it every day, but we are not part of Intuit and we do not resell it. That independence changes the advice you get. When the honest answer is that you are on the wrong plan, that a feature you are paying for is not helping, or that the free review found your file does not actually need us, we say so — because there is no bundle we are trying to move and no quota to hit. We do not upsell. A fixed-scope quote is a fixed-scope quote, and if something genuinely outside it surfaces mid-engagement, we stop and quote it separately rather than quietly expanding the work. The only thing we are selling is a file you can prove is right.

Remote, on U.S. business hours

The work is fully remote, on U.S. business hours (Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm CT), with a written reply within one business day, for businesses in every state.

Because the work lives inside your QuickBooks file rather than at a desk in your office, none of it requires anyone to travel, and the same standard applies whether you are one time zone away or four. We keep U.S. business hours (Central Time), Monday to Saturday, and every written question gets a written reply within one business day. Our coverage across all 50 states is a consequence of being remote-first, not a claim of offices we do not have. Remote also does not mean opaque: because every exchange is written and every change is logged, the record of what was asked, decided, and done travels with your file rather than living in someone's memory. Wherever your business is, the file is where we meet. And if you would rather start with a question than a review, reaching us takes a form, an email, or a call — each one lands on the same specialist's desk and gets a written reply within one business day.

When we're the right fit — and when we're not

We are the right fit when a QuickBooks file has real, tangled problems worth a rigorous method; we are the wrong fit for a couple of stray transactions, a brand-new file, or paper-and-cash books that need someone in the room.

Our method carries real overhead — a review, a written map, an approval step, a verification pass — and that overhead earns its keep on a file with genuine problems, not on a handful of fixes you could make in an afternoon. If you can name the two transactions that are wrong, fix them. If your books are brand-new, you need good setup, not cleanup. And if the work is fundamentally physical — stacks of paper to sort, daily cash to count on site — a local bookkeeper who can be in the room serves you better, and we will tell you that plainly. We would rather point you to the right answer than sell you a method you do not need. But when a file has drifted, when months are missing, or when your reports no longer tie and you cannot say why, that is exactly the work we are built for — and the free review is the honest way to find out which case you are in.

See it in practice: our methodology, a one-time QuickBooks cleanup, ongoing monthly bookkeeping, and where we work — or start with a free review.

How you can check us

A practice is only as good as what you can verify about it. Here is the evidence you can hold before you commit a dollar — the method, the access model, and the response you can expect.

  • Who’s responsible for your file

    A Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor handles your file from the review through the corrections to the hand-back — the same person throughout, never a rotating pool.

    About QBSpecialist

  • A method you can audit

    Reconciliation-first, every change mapped and approved before it is made, then checked against a saved snapshot.

    Read our methodology

  • View-only review, access you remove

    View-only for the free review (a screen-share you control, or a reports-only user on Plus or Advanced); QuickBooks' accountant user, with every change logged, only for work you approve. You can remove it at any time, and we never ask for banking logins or passwords.

  • One business day response

    A written reply within one business day.

Questions about the practice

Is QBSpecialist part of Intuit or QuickBooks?

No. We are an independent specialist practice, not a division of Intuit and not an official QuickBooks service. We work inside the software every day and know it deeply, but we answer to you — not to the company that makes the product.

Do you do taxes or payroll?

Our core work is three things: cleanup, catch-up and monthly bookkeeping. Around that core we also handle migrations, rescues of broken files, and payroll, sales-tax and 1099 corrections inside the books. We do not file taxes, run or file payroll, or give tax or financial advice — correcting how payroll was recorded in QuickBooks is bookkeeping; running the payroll itself is not. When the work needs a CPA or a payroll provider, we hand your file over in a state they can rely on and stay out of their lane.

Are you a large firm or a small practice?

A small practice, worked by a QuickBooks specialist. You are not routed through a call center or handed to a rotating junior each month. The person who reviews your file is the person who works it, which is why we take on a limited number of engagements rather than as many as we could sell.

Do you work remotely, and can you cover my time zone?

Yes. The work lives inside your QuickBooks file, so nothing requires travel. We serve all 50 states, Pacific to Eastern, on U.S. business hours (Mon–Sat, 8am–6pm CT), and every written question gets a written reply within one business day.

How do I know the work is actually done right?

Because you can check it rather than trust it. We reconcile before we correct, map every change in writing, get your approval first, and re-run your reports after — so the file is verified, not asserted. Our methodology page spells out exactly how that works.