Your books are the blueprint.
Know your numbers. Grow your business.
Controller-level oversight for small business owners: the story behind your numbers, where the cash really went, and how growth will affect your cash and your taxes, all for one annual fee.
More than a profit and loss statement
A standard P&L tells you what happened. Books Blueprint tells you why it happened, what it means for your cash, and what to do next.
A standard P&L
- –Totals for the period, with no explanation
- –Profit that doesn't match the bank balance
- –Errors and miscoded items left for tax time
- –No look ahead at cash or taxes
With Books Blueprint
- ✓A controller's analysis: what changed and why, compared with last year
- ✓The Profit-to-Cash Bridge: where your profit is parked
- ✓Reasonableness checks that catch errors early
- ✓Flags on cash, taxes and growth before they become problems
Hidden Money Scan
Forgotten subscriptions, creeping vendor prices, unbilled work and missed deductions, found in your first months with us.
One-Page Money Map
Your whole year on one page: where every dollar came from and where it went, in plain English.
Owner's Safe Paycheck
A pay amount the business can actually support, set on a schedule and revisited at your mid-year checkup.
Four annual plans, one flat fee
Every client starts with Foundation. Your fee is set by the services you choose, never by your revenue, and it's billed in two halves.
Foundation
Foundations Review and Health Score, Hidden Money Scan, One-Page Money Map, Profit-to-Cash Bridge, Owner's Safe Paycheck, Know Your Numbers lessons and scheduled checkups.
Growth
Everything in Foundation, plus a 90-Day Cash Radar, a Price Check, a budget you'll actually use, casino-grade cash controls, an industry scorecard and quarterly tax tune-ups.
Strategic
Everything in Growth, plus the Keep-More Tax Plan, business-funded retirement, the Profit Map, an Annual Strategy Day, the Growth Test and a Business Value Scorecard.
Custom CFO
By invitation for established clients: the services your business needs, built from a menu, including monthly reporting.
From first look to a plan you can use
Health Check
Answer questions about your books, cash, profit, taxes and goals. Your score shows where to start.
Foundations Review
We test your books, build your Health Score and walk you through the findings in plain English.
Checkups
Your books are closed and reviewed at each checkup, with a controller's analysis and an action list.
Year-end
Cash, taxes and next year's budget, planned while there's still time to act.
Owner-led businesses with 1 to 50 people
Trades and construction
Builders, remodelers, HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping and pool service, including job costing and work in progress.
Healthcare practices
Dental, chiropractic, physical therapy, optometry, med spas, veterinary and counseling practices.
Professional services
Insurance agencies, real estate brokerages, property managers, IT services and small law firms.
Retail and food
Boutiques, convenience stores, restaurants and bars, with sales tax and cash controls built in.
Personal services
Fitness studios, salons, cleaning companies, auto shops and child care.
Cannabis
Licensed operators with the inventory and tax rules that come with them.
Hi, I'm Mario Reyes.
Accounting Manager · Controller · Fractional CFO
I've spent 37 years inside small and mid-size businesses, fixing the problems owners bring to the finance office: a monthly close that took 15 days (I cut it to 3), a $2 million annual deficit, and loan negotiations with a syndicate of banks through the 2008 downturn.
Books Blueprint gives your business the same controller-level oversight, scaled to fit a small team and a small-business budget. You get clear numbers, a plan for your cash, and someone who looks ahead at what growth will do to your taxes.
You always talk to Mario.
Start with the free Health Check
About 35 questions. It scores your books, cash, profit, taxes and controls, and shows which plan fits. I'll follow up with your results.
Business Financial Health Check
Free, with no obligation. It asks about how your business runs, never for bank account numbers or passwords.
Take the Health CheckReady to sign up?
Start with the new client questionnaire. Check "Bookkeeping" and it shows only the questions for your business.
New client questionnaireGood to know
Is this monthly bookkeeping?
Not by default. Plans are built around scheduled checkups, when your books are closed and reviewed for every month since the last one. Monthly reporting is available in the Custom CFO plan.
Why is the fee based on services, not my revenue?
Because the work depends on what you need, not how big your sales are. You pick the plan, and the fee stays the same all year.
Which software do you work with?
QuickBooks Online and Xero, plus the industry software that feeds them, such as job-costing, practice-management and point-of-sale systems.
Do you do my taxes too?
Tax returns are prepared through Tax Transformer, the tax side of the practice. Your year-end numbers hand off directly, so nothing gets re-entered.
Do I need to come to an office?
No. Everything is done online: secure uploads, video or phone checkups, and e-signatures.
Let's look at your numbers
Questions before you start? Reach me directly.