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Reconstruct accurate, reconciled books from any starting point — categorization mistakes, missing reconciliations, broken bank feeds, multi-year backlogs, and commingled multi-entity files. Gross receipts verified against your filed returns and the franchise-tax reserve set. Cleanups are scoped at 2–8 weeks, fixed-fee, all three counties.
Delaware rule: gross receipts tax rates range from .0945% to 1.9914% by business activity, and the activity also decides whether the tax is remitted monthly or quarterly; cleanup re-sorts receipts by activity so filed returns can be checked against the books. Source: Delaware Division of Revenue.
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If your file needs our paid diagnostic first, its fee is credited in full against the cleanup. Either way, you get a fixed fee in writing before any work starts.
A Delaware bookkeeping cleanup fixes books recorded wrong, for a fixed fee of $1,200–$15,000+ in 2–8 weeks. We reconcile each bank and credit-card account to source statements, investigate unmatched balances, document corrections and hand over a period-by-period exception register, with gross receipts checked against your filed Delaware returns.
They took something that felt overwhelming to me as a first-year business owner and made it simple.
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Every TechBrot cleanup covers these nine workstreams. Specific scope is tuned to your file during the diagnostic.
Every account reconciled against actual bank and credit-card statements, line by line, period by period. No “reconciliation” against live bank feeds alone — the statement is the source of truth.
Every transaction reviewed and categorized to the correct account. Uncategorized expenses cleared. Bank rules rebuilt to prevent the miscoding from regenerating.
Old undeposited funds investigated against bank deposits and open receipts matched, cleared, or documented. Clearing-account balances reconciled to zero or to a justified open total.
Duplicates identified across bank feeds, manual entries, and connected apps, then removed. Missing transactions reconstructed from source documents. Where multiple entities are commingled in one file, they’re separated into clean per-entity books.
Identified errors in closed periods corrected with documented journal entries — including A/R and A/P cleanup and clearing what landed in opening-balance equity. Adjustments mapped clearly for your tax preparer.
Payroll liabilities reconciled to filed returns. Gross-receipts accruals verified against your filed Delaware returns by business activity, and the annual franchise-tax reserve set. Discrepancies escalated and resolved. We prepare the numbers; your CPA or registered agent files.
Chart of accounts evaluated against your Delaware business model — gross-receipts activity categories and a franchise-tax reserve account added where missing, redundant accounts merged. CoA setup
Reconstructed P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow statements — per entity where you run more than one. Written summary of every adjustment made, signed off by the ProAdvisor — 1099-ready vendor records included where relevant.
When an account won’t reconcile, the cause is usually a transaction entered but never cleared, a duplicate bank-feed entry, a wrong beginning balance, an item dated in the wrong period, or undeposited funds masking deposits. We find the specific cause and fix it at the source, work the reconciliation-discrepancy account back to zero, and match every merchant and payment-processor account (Stripe, Square, PayPal) to its statement alongside the banks and cards. Why reconciliations fail
Every TechBrot cleanup follows the same four-phase sequence — same shape for a single-year cleanup or a multi-year recovery.
A 30-minute call to review your file, statements, and payroll records. Within 3 business days you receive a written fixed-fee scope — deliverables, timeline, pricing, the standard we’re holding to. No pitch.
Typical: 3 business daysReal reconciliation against actual statements. Categorization, undeposited funds, duplicates, A/R and A/P cleanup, entity separation, prior-period corrections, payroll and gross-receipts verification, franchise-tax reserve. The work happens here.
Typical: 2–6 weeksReconstructed financial statements produced. Quality review against the operating standard before delivery. Every adjustment documented for your records and for your CPA.
Typical: 3–5 business daysClean books delivered with a written summary of corrections. Continue with the same bookkeeper on monthly bookkeeping, or hand off to your existing CPA.
Optional: monthly engagementThe outcome of a cleanup isn’t cosmetic. Reconciled, accurate books unlock decisions you couldn’t make on bad data.
Every TechBrot cleanup is priced against a written scope before work begins. Delaware cleanups are priced in three tiers. Final pricing depends on transaction volume, account count, payroll, number of entities, and complexity.
From $1,200
For: smaller Delaware businesses — 1 year, single entity, 2–3 bank accounts, no payroll or simple payroll.
Fixed-fee · scoped to months behind
For: active Delaware businesses — 12–24 months, payroll, multiple bank and credit accounts, gross receipts by activity.
Fixed-fee · custom scope
For: Delaware businesses 2+ years behind, or holding companies with several commingled entities, inventory, or complex payroll.
Bookkeeping cleanup starts at $1,200; the Standard and Multi-year tiers are priced as a fixed fee against the written scope determined by the diagnostic — by months behind, account count, payroll, number of entities, and complexity. If your cleanup also runs into problems with the QuickBooks file itself — broken bank feeds, version conflicts, a file Intuit’s tools must repair first — see QuickBooks file cleanup; the engagements pair seamlessly.
Bank feeds can import a transaction; they can’t tell you which prior-period entry is wrong, why a clearing account never zeroes, which entity a payment really belongs to, or that a gross-receipts accrual won’t survive a Delaware review. Reconstructing clean books is judgment work, not data entry. Once your Delaware books are solid, ongoing monthly bookkeeping keeps them that way and fractional-CFO advisory turns them into decisions.
Checked against the Delaware Division of Revenue and the Delaware Division of Corporations.
Every TechBrot cleanup is prepared by your TechBrot team, with every close reviewed by a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, from diagnostic to handoff. You’ll know exactly who is working on your books, how to reach them, and what credentials they hold. Quality review backs every engagement. Every close is reviewed before it reaches you. Trust & methodology
The standard, every fileEvery engagement runs on three roles: a client advisor who scopes it and stays your point of contact, a senior bookkeeper who prepares your setup and monthly close in your software, and a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor who reviews every close before it reaches you. A U.S.-based bookkeeper is available on request; we can share their public directory profile with you.
Senior bookkeepers who specialize in rental portfolios and Xero, and specialist partner practices for trust accounting for law firms and CFO advisory. We bring the right one onto your engagement when your business calls for it, under the same standards and review.
Broken bank feeds, file corruption, list and version problems. Fixes the QuickBooks file itself — often paired with bookkeeping cleanup.
The engagementOnce the books are clean, ongoing monthly bookkeeping keeps them that way. Real monthly close, real reconciliations, every close checked against TechBrot’s close standard.
The engagementDelaware’s gross receipts tax by activity and reconciling accruals to your filed Division of Revenue returns — verified as part of cleanup.
The engagementWhen a books problem has become a tax problem, cleanup establishes the true numbers so your CPA or attorney can resolve it.
The engagementHow to tell whether the file needs a one-time cleanup, ongoing bookkeeping, or the cleanup first — and the cost logic of each order.
Read moreA scope-based estimate for a focused, standard, or complex cleanup from your months behind, number of accounts, and transaction volume.
The engagementNot sure where your file stands? Start with the free QuickBooks file review · how Delaware compares: state-by-state tax quirks · just formed? after you incorporate in Delaware.
Bookkeeping cleanup is a project-based engagement that reconstructs accurate financial records from a messy or unreconciled state. For a Delaware business it typically includes real bank and credit-card reconciliation against actual statements, categorization corrections, clearing undeposited funds, fixing duplicate and missing transactions, separating commingled entities, correcting prior-period errors, verifying payroll and gross-receipts entries, setting the franchise-tax reserve, and producing CPA-ready financial statements. It is distinct from QuickBooks file cleanup, which fixes the file itself.
Cleanup engagements are scoped at 2 to 8 weeks. A single-year cleanup for a small Delaware business with 2 to 3 bank accounts typically takes a few weeks. Multi-year or multi-entity cleanups involving payroll, inventory, or several commingled entities take longer. The timeline is fixed in a written scope before any work begins.
Cleanup is priced by scope, not by the hour, starting at $1,200. The fee is set by months behind, account count, payroll, number of entities, and complexity — a single-year single-entity cleanup sits at the lower end; multi-year or multi-entity holding-company reconstructions run higher. Every cleanup is fixed-fee against a written scope — for a quote, book a free file review or call (877) 751-5575. See the pricing scope section above for tier details.
Cleanup bookkeeping fixes the books — reconciliation, categorization, prior-period corrections, entity separation, and CPA-ready statements regardless of platform. QuickBooks cleanup fixes the QuickBooks file itself — broken bank feeds, file corruption, list and version problems. A Delaware file can need both: repair the file, then reconstruct the books on top of it.
Catch-up bookkeeping brings behind-but-structured books up to date by entering missed transactions and completing reconciliations through the current month. Cleanup is deeper: it corrects errors, fixes categorization, resolves reconciliation discrepancies, separates commingled entities, and reconstructs accurate records from a messy state. A Delaware engagement can combine both — clean up the existing periods, catch up the missing months, then transition to monthly bookkeeping.
Yes. Multi-year cleanups are scoped the same way, period by period — including holding companies where several entities have been run through one file for years. Even when a file hasn’t been reconciled in three or more years, an experienced QuickBooks ProAdvisor can reconstruct accurate books using bank statements, payroll records, and source documents. The process is methodical and the outcome is reliable financial statements you and your CPA can file from.
Yes. TechBrot cleanup produces CPA-ready, lender-ready financial statements — reconciled to source documents with documented adjustments — the handoff includes reconciled account balances, documented corrections, unresolved exceptions and financial statements prepared from the agreed records.
Every account with a statement: business checking and savings, every credit card, merchant and payment-processor accounts (Stripe, Square, PayPal), loans and lines of credit, and the gross-receipts liability, which is reconciled by business activity against what was earned and remitted. A cleanup reconciles each of them period by period, and monthly bookkeeping keeps them tied out afterwards.
Tell us what’s wrong with the books. We’ll tell you whether cleanup, catch-up or monthly bookkeeping fits.
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