Dew Bookkeeping
Bookkeeping The Way A Family Office Would Do It.
Too often, growing businesses run on books that are late, inconsistent, or built for nobody in particular. Decisions get made on stale or messy numbers. We fix that.
Schedule A Discovery CallWhat You Get
Monthly financial records you can rely on. Every transaction categorized, every account reconciled, on a predictable monthly rhythm.
Clear monthly reports. A profit and loss statement, a balance sheet, and a plain-English summary of what actually happened in your business that month.
A consistent, standardized structure. Every client’s books are built on the same professional framework, which is what makes your numbers comparable, clean, and useful over time.
Records that connect to your team. Your books are built to work with your tax and advisory team, so the same numbers flow through every decision.
What Clean Books Make Possible
Clean books are not the goal. They are the prerequisite. When your records are current, consistent, and professionally structured, they become one of the most useful tools you have for running the business.
See where the money goes. A consistently structured profit and loss makes overspending visible at the category level every month, duplicate subscriptions, vendor price creep, costs that have quietly climbed, instead of surfacing once a year.
Catch problems early. Most irregularities are caught not by a year-end review but by consistent monthly reconciliation. When every account is matched and a second set of eyes reviews the close, anything out of place surfaces quickly.
Understand your margins. When revenue and expenses are categorized the same way every month, your numbers become comparable, month over month, year over year, and against industry benchmarks, so you can see which parts of the business actually make money.
Make tax planning proactive. Your tax team is most effective when it is planning, not correcting. Clean, well-structured books mean the conversation is about strategy rather than rebuilding records at year-end.
Connect the business to the bigger picture. The same numbers that run your business feed your tax and wealth decisions, so nothing important falls through the gap between them.
Built On Structure, Not Guesswork
We build every client’s books on a unified, professional structure. That discipline is the difference between financial records that are clean, consistent, and ready for tax time and strategic planning, and a custom mess that only one person understands. Structure is what makes your numbers trustworthy.
How We Work With Your Advisors
Our bookkeeping is designed to work in coordination with Dew Wealth Management’s advisory relationships, so your books, your tax picture, and your wealth strategy stay connected. Dew Tax Advisory, LLC is an affiliated company of Dew Wealth Management, an SEC-registered investment adviser. That coordination means you’re never handing the same information to three different people who never talk to each other.
What You Receive Every Month
Every close lands in your secure client portal as a complete package, not a spreadsheet dump, but reports written to be read, with a plain-English narrative that tells you what happened and what it means.
Profit & Loss Statement
Your income and expenses for the month and year to date, categorized consistently so the numbers stay comparable over time.
Balance Sheet
A point-in-time view of what the business owns and owes, with every account reconciled before it goes out.
Reconciliation Summary
Every connected account matched and confirmed, so you can trust the numbers behind the reports.
Controller Narrative
Written by a person, not a template: what moved this month, why, and anything worth your attention.
Advisor Coordination Notes
A short summary shared with your advisory team so everyone is working from the same set of numbers.
KPI Dashboard
A handful of metrics that matter to your business, updated monthly and measured against industry peers.
Bookkeeping At The Level You Need
Every business is at a different stage. Our corporate bookkeeping comes in three levels, from clean monthly books to the most hands-on financial support, so you get the depth you actually need. Families with their own entities can add Family Office Bookkeeping, described below. The right fit depends on your complexity and your goals, which is exactly what a Discovery Call is for.
Corporate Bookkeeping
| What’s included | Clean Books Accurate, professionally structured books delivered every month. The dependable foundation every other financial decision rests on. |
Managed Books Everything in Clean Books, plus the reporting and analysis that turn your numbers into a monthly read on how the business is actually doing. |
CFO Lite Everything in Managed Books, plus quarterly planning, benchmarking, and accountability, the perspective of a finance chief without a full-time hire. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly transaction categorization and reconciliation | Included | Included | Included |
| Monthly profit and loss and balance sheet | Included | Included | Included |
| Cash flow reporting with plain-English commentary | Included | Included | Included |
| A monthly narrative of what happened in your business | Included | Included | Included |
| Coordination notes shared with your advisory team | Included | Included | Included |
| Secure document and reporting delivery | Included | Included | Included |
| Interactive KPI dashboard tailored to your business | Not included | Included | Included |
| Analytical reporting: why the numbers moved and what they signal | Not included | Included | Included |
| Budget versus actual tracking | Not included | Included | Included |
| Proactive controller review and outreach | Not included | Included | Included |
| Quarterly financial health scorecard | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Industry benchmarking against peer businesses | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Quarterly business review with your team | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Profitability analysis by product or service line | Not included | Not included | Included |
| Annual budget and planning support | Not included | Not included | Included |
Clean Books
Accurate, professionally structured books delivered every month. The dependable foundation every other financial decision rests on.
- Monthly transaction categorization and reconciliation
- Monthly profit and loss and balance sheet
- Cash flow reporting with plain-English commentary
- A monthly narrative of what happened in your business
- Coordination notes shared with your advisory team
- Secure document and reporting delivery
Managed Books
Everything in Clean Books, plus the reporting and analysis that turn your numbers into a monthly read on how the business is actually doing.
- Monthly transaction categorization and reconciliation
- Monthly profit and loss and balance sheet
- Cash flow reporting with plain-English commentary
- A monthly narrative of what happened in your business
- Coordination notes shared with your advisory team
- Secure document and reporting delivery
- Interactive KPI dashboard tailored to your business
- Analytical reporting: why the numbers moved and what they signal
- Budget versus actual tracking
- Proactive controller review and outreach
CFO Lite
Everything in Managed Books, plus quarterly planning, benchmarking, and accountability, the perspective of a finance chief without a full-time hire.
- Monthly transaction categorization and reconciliation
- Monthly profit and loss and balance sheet
- Cash flow reporting with plain-English commentary
- A monthly narrative of what happened in your business
- Coordination notes shared with your advisory team
- Secure document and reporting delivery
- Interactive KPI dashboard tailored to your business
- Analytical reporting: why the numbers moved and what they signal
- Budget versus actual tracking
- Proactive controller review and outreach
- Quarterly financial health scorecard
- Industry benchmarking against peer businesses
- Quarterly business review with your team
- Profitability analysis by product or service line
- Annual budget and planning support
Family Office Bookkeeping
A separate service for entrepreneurs who want their business finances fully coordinated with their broader personal and family wealth picture. Where corporate bookkeeping keeps your company’s books clean, Family Office Bookkeeping brings that same discipline to the entities, properties, and investments behind the family.
What’s Included
- Transaction categorization across your personal and family entities
- Monthly reconciliation of your accounts
- A monthly income-and-spending view: income by source, spending by category
- A plain-English monthly narrative prepared for your advisor
- Full integration with your advisory relationship
- Recording of investment distributions, including K-1s, partnerships, and capital calls
- Property-level expense tracking across your real-estate holdings
- Passive holding companies tracked at no additional charge
Advisor-led. Your advisor leads the structure of the books based on your personal financial picture, and we keep them accurate month to month. Net-worth tracking stays with your advisor, and year-end tax organization is handled as a Dew Tax deliverable.