You earn your living in the field, not at a desk. Larsen Bookkeeping has kept the books for trades and contractors since 2001, from construction and excavation to plumbing, heating, HVAC, electrical, and the other skilled trades: fully online, built on QuickBooks Online, and run so the paperwork never pulls you off a job.
Tell us about your trade and where the books stand. Prefer to call? 781-924-1489
Built for the Field
A crew to run, materials to chase, customers to answer. The books still have to be right, but they should not cost you daylight hours. Everything about this practice is set up for owners who work on their feet.
Everything lives in QuickBooks Online. Check a number from the job site, the truck, or the kitchen table at nine at night. Open it anytime, from any device.
Documents are shared digitally and questions are handled by phone or email. No office visits, and no shoebox of receipts to drop off anywhere.
When something looks off, you call and a professional who knows your business picks up. Judgment and a straight answer, not a support queue.
Filled with gratitude and appreciation for Larsen Bookkeeping Services. LBS has taken Classic Tractor Services, LLC, sand & gravel excavation business, to that of a high level, efficient, up to date, organized bookkeeping model over the last 4 months. Reasonable/fair pricing, they are always available for questions.
What We Handle
Whether you want the books off your plate entirely or just want your own QuickBooks squared away, the same five services carry a trade business as well as they carry any other.
“I want reliable ongoing help.”
Transactions recorded, accounts reconciled, and reports kept current through busy season and slow season alike.
“My books are behind or need correcting.”
Came home from busy season to a glovebox full of receipts? We bring the file back to accurate and organized, going back as far as necessary.
“I need an evaluation, training, or help moving to Online.”
An evaluation or a conversion, often the first step toward monthly bookkeeping, and training for whoever keeps the books.
Yes. Plumbing, heating, and HVAC companies have a rhythm of their own: service calls and installs, trucks and parts, technicians on payroll, a heating season that runs from fall through winter, and commercial customers such as condo associations and property managers. We keep the books current in QuickBooks Online and set up job costing, so you can see which jobs and which kinds of work actually make money. Bookkeeping for plumbing and HVAC companies. We work fully online with companies across the South Shore, from Quincy and Braintree to Plymouth.
Yes. Monthly bookkeeping is done in QuickBooks Online. If you’re on QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Conversion can move your file over first.
No. We work entirely online, by phone, email, and screen share, so the books keep moving while you’re on the job.
Pricing depends on your books: the volume, the complexity, and what you need. After a free consultation, you get a recommendation and a quote before any work begins. If the books are behind, a cleanup usually comes first, scoped and quoted on its own. How pricing works.
Yes. Job costing tracks the income and costs of each job separately, as a project or a sub-customer in QuickBooks Online, so you can see which jobs make money. Not sure how your file is set up? A QuickBooks Evaluation reviews it and ends with a one-hour call on what we found.
Yes. We work entirely online, by phone, email, and screen share, with trades and contractors across Massachusetts. Your books live in QuickBooks Online, so it works the same in Worcester as in Plymouth.
Guides
Short, practical guides by Liliane Larsen, written for owners who want the useful version.
Cash flow
Where money goes that the profit and loss never shows, with a calculator for your own numbers.
Read the guide: Why a profitable month can still leave less cashWarning Signs
From bank app accounting to the annual tax scramble: the early signals that the books are slipping.
Read the guide: Five signs your books are quietly falling behindThe Basics
The quiet ritual that separates books you can trust from books you merely have, explained pass by pass.
Read the guide: What a bookkeeper actually does at month endGet Started
It starts with a free, no-obligation consultation. Tell us about your trade and where the books stand today. You will not be judged for the state of them.
Request a free consultationPrefer the phone? Call 781-924-1489.