Eight Five Bookkeeping is a done-for-you bookkeeping service for small business owners in Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax, and across Northern Virginia. We close your books every month in QuickBooks Online, build reports you can actually read, and give you back the hours you've been losing to receipts and reconciliations.
Monthly close in QuickBooks Online Reports that make sense 24-hour response
No pressure. We'll look at your books and tell you straight whether we're a fit — or where to go if we're not.
Most bookkeepers stop at categorizing transactions. We do that — and then we go further. We build a chart of accounts that fits how your business actually works, surface the numbers that matter, and act as a financial sounding board you can email any day of the week.
Bank and credit card reconciliation, transaction categorization, and a clean monthly close in QuickBooks Online — delivered on time, every month.
Monthly P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement — written so you can actually understand them. Plus the KPIs that matter for your specific business.
Books behind 6 months? 18? We've seen worse. We'll get you fully reconciled and reclassified, then keep you current going forward.
Setting up QBO from scratch or fixing a chart of accounts that's grown into a mess. Built around your business, not the QBO defaults.
We hand your CPA a clean, audit-ready package every January with everything they need. They'll thank us.
W-9 collection, vendor records, and 1099 prep — handled. No more January scramble.
Routes. Recurring revenue. FieldRoutes, ServiceTitan, PestPac. Cost per hour per truck. Generalist bookkeepers don't speak that language — we do. We've built a dedicated practice for pest control owner-operators with a tailored chart of accounts, CRM-to-QBO integration, and KPIs designed around route economics.
We look at your books, ask a few questions about how your business runs, and tell you straight whether we're a fit. No pitch deck, no pressure. You'll have a clear quote in your inbox the same day.
We get access to QuickBooks and your bank accounts, rebuild your chart of accounts to fit how your business actually works, and catch up any months that are behind. Most clients are caught up within their first 30 days.
Books closed monthly, reports in your inbox, KPIs you can read at a glance. You stop opening QuickBooks. You start running your business off your numbers instead of your gut.
Big bookkeeping firms run you through a help desk. Solo bookkeepers go dark for weeks. We're built differently — small enough to know your business, structured enough to never miss a deadline.
Based in Alexandria, working with small businesses across Northern Virginia. We know the local landscape — DC commuter clients, NoVA service businesses, Virginia tax quirks — and we're in your time zone when you need to talk.
Send an email or a Loom. You get a real reply from a real person within 24 hours — not a ticket queue, not a chatbot, not "your assigned account manager will get back to you."
We hate jargon as much as you do. Reports written in plain English, KPIs explained in business terms, and a partner who can tell you what the numbers actually mean.
Month-to-month with 30-day notice. Our pitch is that the work pays for itself — not that you signed an annual contract.
Areas we serve:
Yes. We're based in Alexandria but most of our work is done remotely, so we serve small businesses across Northern Virginia — Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church, McLean, Tysons, Springfield, and the broader DC metro. If you're outside the region and want to work together, we can usually make it work too.
Pricing depends on your transaction volume, account count, and how clean the books are when you arrive. We don't post generic prices because they'd be misleading. Book a free 30-minute consultation and you'll have an exact quote in your inbox the same day.
If you have a CPA, keep them — we work alongside CPAs, not instead of them. We handle the monthly close in QuickBooks; your CPA stays for taxes. Every January we hand them a clean, audit-ready package. Most clients do switch their bookkeeper to us, but that's your call.
That's the norm, not the exception. Most clients come to us months — sometimes years — behind. We catch you up, fully reconciled and reclassified, as part of onboarding. We've seen worse than yours.
No — pest control is a specialty practice we built around route-based service businesses. Our core practice serves small businesses across many industries: contractors, e-commerce, professional services, real estate, restaurants, agencies. If you have transactions to reconcile, we can help.
QuickBooks Online for the books. We integrate with payroll providers (Gusto, ADP), spend management tools (Ramp, Bill, Divvy), and industry-specific CRMs when needed (FieldRoutes, ServiceTitan, PestPac for pest control clients). If you use something unusual, we'll figure it out.
Yes. Month-to-month with 30 days' notice. We don't lock anyone in. Our pitch is that the work pays for itself — not that you signed an annual contract.
Whether you're a small business owner in Alexandria looking for cleaner books or a pest control operator looking for a true financial partner — let's talk. We'll give you a tailored plan and a precise quote in 30 minutes flat.
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