About
The Bookkeeping Team You Do Not Have to Chase
Equipped keeps the books accurate for owner-led service businesses in all 50 states, and answers when you have a question about them.
Who we work with
Owner-led service businesses, in all 50 states. The work is remote.
What it costs
Monthly bookkeeping starts at $300 a month. The rate is flat and set by volume and complexity, never hourly.
How you are billed
There is an agreement, and it runs month to month. You are never committed past the month you are in.
How the work runs
We Respond, We Get The Books Right, We Explain The Numbers
The order matters. Books nobody explains are barely better than books nobody keeps. Neither one helps if you cannot reach the person keeping them.
- We respondChasing a bookkeeper is the complaint we hear first and most often. You get an answer within the same business day, by email, text or phone. Asking a question never costs extra.
- We get the books rightWe code your transactions to a chart of accounts built around how your business actually earns. We reconcile every bank, card and processor account to its statement. Matt reviews and verifies every set of books before it is finalized.
- We help you use the numbersA report you cannot read is not reporting. When something in the numbers needs explaining, we walk you through it by email or on a call.
Scope
What We Do, And What We Do Not
The second list is the more useful one. A bookkeeper who lets you assume they handle your taxes is a problem you find out about in April.
What we do
- Monthly bookkeeping
- Catch-up work on books that are months or years behind
- Clean-up work on books that are current but cannot be trusted
- Bookkeeping setup, built around how you earn
- Custom financial reporting beyond the standard statements
- Business growth consulting, grounded in what the books say
What we do not
- We are not a tax firm and we do not file your returns
- We do not run payroll
- We do not file sales tax
- We are not a fractional CFO firm
- We are not a fit for inventory-heavy ecommerce by default
Terms
What You Pay, And What You Sign
No tiers to decode. You are never committed past the month you are in.
- Flat monthly pricing
- Set by transaction volume and complexity, starting at $300 a month. Hourly billing puts the bookkeeper and the owner on opposite sides of every question, so questions stop getting asked.
- Month to month
- There is an agreement, and it runs month to month. You are never committed past the month you are in.
- Priced before the work starts
- Catch-up and clean-up are quoted separately and once, so the monthly rate is not padded with project work. The price comes out of a conversation about what is actually missing.
- Nationwide and remote
- Equipped works with owner-led service businesses in all 50 states.
Who runs it
Two Partners
Equipped Bookkeeping trades as CAVANAUGH REAL ESTATE INC.
Matt Cavanaugh
Founder and Partner
Chase Borden
Partner
Matt reviews and verifies every set of books before it is finalized. Our team may assist with the bookkeeping work; the review is what the client is buying.
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