Narrow Gate Financial is a bookkeeping practice built by a 20+ year finance and accounting veteran, for restaurant, franchise, and trades businesses. We specialize in fixing backlogged, messy, or error-ridden books — fast, and for a flat fee.
Most owners don't call about bookkeeping until something forces the issue. If any of this is true for you, we can help.
Four steps, one fixed price, no surprises.
Narrow Gate Financial exists to give restaurant owners, franchise operators, and trades businesses clean, current books and honest financial clarity — because the disciplined path is worth more than the easy one, especially when it's your business on the line.
Narrow Gate Financial is a bookkeeping practice for restaurant, franchise, and trades businesses. We specialize in cleanup of backlogged, messy, or error-ridden books for a flat fee, and in ongoing monthly bookkeeping in QuickBooks Online.
Restaurant owners and franchise operators (food cost tracking, multi-location and franchise royalty reporting) and trades and contractor businesses such as HVAC, electrical, plumbing, and general contracting (job costing and 1099 subcontractor tracking).
A cleanup brings behind or error-ridden books current. We open your file, assess the real scope in a diagnostic review, and give you one fixed-fee quote before work begins. There is no hourly clock. The price depends on how many months are behind and how complex the books are.
Yes. After a cleanup, most clients move to monthly bookkeeping so their books stay current. Retainer pricing is quoted in writing after a free discovery call.
No. Your payroll provider continues to run payroll. Recording payroll entries in QuickBooks Online is part of monthly bookkeeping. Payroll reconciliation, which ties payroll reports to your books and bank activity, is available as an add-on, priced by pay frequency and number of employees, and spelled out in your written quote.
Not at this time. We provide clean, reconciled books that your tax preparer or advisor can rely on, and we work alongside your preparer.
Yes, as add-on services. We can process bills and invoices through BILL, and complete 1099 filing for your subcontractors and vendors.
We can bring your books current and reconciled so that your lender, buyer, preparer, or tax advisor has accurate financials. We do not represent clients before the IRS.
Yes. We work with clients anywhere in the U.S. — no office visit required.
QuickBooks Online is our core platform. Derek Williams is a QuickBooks ProAdvisor. We also use secure tools for client communication, document collection, and financial reporting.
We follow a Written Information Security Plan aligned with the FTC Safeguards Rule, require multi-factor authentication on systems that hold client data, use a password manager, and email authentication (SPF, DKIM, DMARC) on our firm domain.
Book a free discovery call. We will ask a few questions about your business and tell you honestly what it will take to get your books caught up.
Pick a time for a free discovery call. We'll ask a few questions and tell you honestly what it will take to get caught up.
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