Accounting for owner-operated businesses
Meridian runs the financial back office for more than two hundred small businesses: clean monthly books, returns filed early, payroll that never misses. You run the business. The numbers arrive done.
214
Businesses on monthly bookkeeping
9
States filed in the 2025 season
5
CPAs and enrolled agents on staff
0
Missed payroll runs since 2019
Services
Everything is fixed-fee and scoped in writing. You will never open an invoice from us and be surprised by it.
01 · Tax
S-corp, partnership, and individual returns, filed early enough that the numbers still help you plan.
02 · Books
Monthly close by the 10th: categorized, reconciled, and reviewed by a person who knows your business.
03 · Payroll
On time, every time, with the filings that follow it done in every state you hire.
04 · Advisory
A senior finance mind in your corner for pricing, cash, hiring math, and the big purchase decisions.
How engagement works
Five questions, about two minutes, in the intake assistant below. Structure, services, and size.
A fixed-fee engagement proposal within two business days. No hourly meters, no open-ended scopes.
One call to collect access and history. We take the books from there, and your old backlog with them.
Industries
Every industry books revenue differently. We staff advisors by industry so the questions you get asked are the right ones.
Job costing, retainage, equipment depreciation
Tip reporting, vendor reconciliation, thin margins
Provider comp models, equipment financing
Retainer revenue, contractor pools, WIP
Sales tax nexus, inventory, marketplace fees
Fund accounting, 990s, grant reporting
Resources
Every federal and state deadline that applies to you, mapped to what we need and when we need it.
A defensible way to set reasonable compensation, updated for the current year's guidance.
The two deductions owners leave on the table most, with the records that survive review.
Get started
We retired the intake PDF. Answer a few questions here and we will match you with the right advisor and send a fixed-fee proposal within two business days.