Retainers and advance payments
Agree on how client advances and recurring fees should be recorded based on the engagement and accounting approach.
Consultants & Professional Services
Bookkeeping for consultants.
Give your consulting business a consistent financial routine. We help organize client income, business expenses, and account balances so your books keep pace with your engagements.
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Built around your business
Make sense of retainers, projects, and overhead.
Review client receipts alongside the recurring expenses that continue between consulting engagements.
We support independent consultants, business advisors, and small professional service firms with recurring bookkeeping built around their client work.
Consulting income may arrive through monthly retainers, milestone invoices, or one-time engagements. Meanwhile, subscriptions, travel, professional memberships, and outsourced support continue. Consistent records help you see how those patterns affect your business over time.
Explore our approachWhere bookkeeping helps
Support for everyday financial workflows.
These are areas to discuss when we define the services and information your business needs.
Client reimbursements
Distinguish reimbursable purchases from operating expenses using supporting records and an agreed workflow.
Unpaid invoices
Keep invoice and payment records organized, with receivables aging review when included in your scope.
A practical example
Review a retainer alongside milestone payments
Bring retainer income, milestone receipts, and ongoing costs into the same monthly review.
A consultant may receive a monthly retainer from one client and a milestone payment from another while software subscriptions and outsourced support continue. Matching receipts to billing records and reviewing unpaid invoices helps explain the month’s activity.
Monthly profit and loss and balance sheet reports give you a basis for comparing periods and reviewing overhead. Receivables reporting, when included, shows which client balances remain outstanding; cash-flow planning can be added through a separate scope.
Explore client billing and receivables supportRelated services
Start with reliable books. Add support where it fits.
Build your scope around recurring bookkeeping, then add support for customer billing, vendor payments, or financial planning as your workflow requires.
Monthly bookkeeping
Transaction review, reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, and month-end close support.
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Accounts receivable
Invoice records, payment tracking, and aging review based on your billing process and agreed scope.
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Accounts payable
Organized vendor bills and payment workflows with clearly defined approvals and responsibilities.
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Financial reporting
Financial statements to help you review income, expenses, and account balances.
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QuickBooks Online setup
Account structure and workflows aligned with your business and reporting needs.
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Fractional CFO support
Discuss additional support for budgeting, cash-flow planning, and financial analysis.
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A clear process from the first conversation.
We review how your business works before recommending services, so responsibilities, records, and expectations are clear from the start.
Review your workflow
Discuss your accounts, source records, billing process, and the questions you want your books to answer.
Define the scope
Agree on services, document sharing, approval responsibilities, and any setup or cleanup needed.
Maintain and review
Follow a recurring schedule for reconciliations, transaction questions, and the reports included in your scope.
Common questions
Bookkeeping for consultants.
Find answers about the workflows we can discuss, the scope of our services, and what working together looks like.
Can you help with irregular consulting income?
Monthly reports help you compare consulting income with ongoing expenses, while receivables reporting can show unpaid client invoices when included. For forward-looking budgets or cash-flow planning, we can discuss fractional CFO support as an additional service.
Can you organize expenses paid personally?
We can review business expenses paid from personal funds and agree on how to document and record them. Keeping business and personal activity separate makes ongoing bookkeeping easier.
Do you only work with Los Angeles businesses?
BlueWave Ledger is based in Los Angeles and works remotely with businesses across the Westside, elsewhere in California, and across the U.S. No office visit is required.
How is the scope and price determined?
We review your accounts, transaction volume, accounting software, current records, and reporting needs. Setup or cleanup work and additional services are defined before work begins.
Local connection, remote support
Serving Los Angeles and beyond.
Explore bookkeeping support for businesses in Santa Monica, Culver City, and West Los Angeles. Our remote workflow lets us work with owners across the region without an office visit.
Consultants & Professional Services
Ready to bring more clarity to your books?
Tell us about your business, current accounting software, and where you need support. We will follow up to discuss fit and next steps.