Find a bookkeeper you can check before you hire
Bookkeepers in every state and Washington, DC, compared on what they document and what public records confirm. Every fact carries its source and date under our methodology.
50 states and DC covered 13,757 firms reviewed 238,337 evidence records
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States
Alabama196 firms reviewed Alaska54 firms reviewed Arizona296 firms reviewed Arkansas130 firms reviewed California1710 firms reviewed Colorado352 firms reviewed Connecticut213 firms reviewed Delaware68 firms reviewed District of Columbia18 firms reviewed Florida1022 firms reviewed Georgia367 firms reviewed Hawaii57 firms reviewed Idaho122 firms reviewed Illinois436 firms reviewed Indiana251 firms reviewed Iowa143 firms reviewed Kansas152 firms reviewed Kentucky134 firms reviewed Louisiana200 firms reviewed Maine71 firms reviewed Maryland248 firms reviewed Massachusetts335 firms reviewed Michigan332 firms reviewed Minnesota243 firms reviewed Mississippi92 firms reviewed Missouri242 firms reviewed Montana105 firms reviewed Nebraska98 firms reviewed Nevada127 firms reviewed New Hampshire135 firms reviewed New Jersey339 firms reviewed New Mexico89 firms reviewed New York449 firms reviewed North Carolina436 firms reviewed North Dakota46 firms reviewed Ohio398 firms reviewed Oklahoma149 firms reviewed Oregon229 firms reviewed Pennsylvania387 firms reviewed Rhode Island81 firms reviewed South Carolina186 firms reviewed South Dakota54 firms reviewed Tennessee242 firms reviewed Texas1075 firms reviewed Utah198 firms reviewed Vermont46 firms reviewed Virginia314 firms reviewed Washington357 firms reviewed West Virginia74 firms reviewed Wisconsin235 firms reviewed Wyoming40 firms reviewed
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Markets
Birmingham area, AL42 firms reviewed Huntsville area, AL29 firms reviewed Mobile area, AL23 firms reviewed Anchorage area, AK30 firms reviewed Flagstaff area, AZ16 firms reviewed Phoenix-Mesa area, AZ202 firms reviewed Tucson area, AZ30 firms reviewed Fayetteville-Springdale area, AR50 firms reviewed Little Rock-North Little Rock area, AR33 firms reviewed Bakersfield-Delano area, CA20 firms reviewed Fresno area, CA41 firms reviewed Los Angeles-Long Beach area, CA498 firms reviewed Oxnard-Thousand Oaks area, CA72 firms reviewed Redding area, CA21 firms reviewed Riverside-San Bernardino area, CA267 firms reviewed Sacramento-Roseville area, CA115 firms reviewed San Diego-Chula Vista area, CA134 firms reviewed San Francisco-Oakland area, CA204 firms reviewed San Jose-Sunnyvale area, CA88 firms reviewed Stockton-Lodi area, CA48 firms reviewed Boulder area, CO31 firms reviewed Colorado Springs area, CO36 firms reviewed Denver-Aurora area, CO194 firms reviewed Fort Collins-Loveland area, CO43 firms reviewed Greeley area, CO18 firms reviewed Hartford County, CT65 firms reviewed Fairfield County, CT84 firms reviewed Wilmington area, DE49 firms reviewed Cape Coral-Fort Myers area, FL61 firms reviewed Deltona-Daytona Beach area, FL48 firms reviewed Gainesville area, FL19 firms reviewed Jacksonville area, FL36 firms reviewed Lakeland-Winter Haven area, FL26 firms reviewed Miami-Fort Lauderdale area, FL411 firms reviewed North Port-Bradenton area, FL61 firms reviewed Ocala area, FL24 firms reviewed Orlando-Kissimmee area, FL72 firms reviewed Palm Bay-Melbourne area, FL33 firms reviewed Tampa-St. Petersburg area, FL150 firms reviewed Atlanta-Sandy Springs area, GA210 firms reviewed Boise City area, ID60 firms reviewed Coeur d'Alene area, ID18 firms reviewed Chicago-Naperville area, IL350 firms reviewed Carmel-Greenwood area, IN93 firms reviewed Des Moines-West Des Moines area, IA43 firms reviewed Kansas City area, KS66 firms reviewed Lexington-Fayette area, KY42 firms reviewed New Orleans-Metairie area, LA64 firms reviewed Shreveport-Bossier City area, LA25 firms reviewed Portland-South Portland area, ME49 firms reviewed Baltimore-Columbia area, MD92 firms reviewed Bethesda-Frederick area, MD124 firms reviewed Boston-Cambridge area, MA228 firms reviewed Worcester area, MA23 firms reviewed Ann Arbor area, MI23 firms reviewed Detroit-Warren area, MI189 firms reviewed Grand Rapids-Wyoming area, MI38 firms reviewed Kalamazoo-Portage area, MI30 firms reviewed Minneapolis-St. Paul area, MN164 firms reviewed Gulfport-Biloxi area, MS22 firms reviewed Columbia area, MO15 firms reviewed Kansas City area, MO64 firms reviewed Springfield area, MO27 firms reviewed St. Louis area, MO82 firms reviewed Lincoln area, NE23 firms reviewed Omaha area, NE40 firms reviewed Las Vegas-Henderson area, NV64 firms reviewed Reno area, NV37 firms reviewed Boston area (New Hampshire part), NH49 firms reviewed Manchester-Nashua area, NH66 firms reviewed Newark-Jersey City area, NJ252 firms reviewed Trenton-Princeton area, NJ32 firms reviewed Albuquerque area, NM35 firms reviewed Albany-Schenectady area, NY55 firms reviewed Buffalo-Cheektowaga area, NY35 firms reviewed Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie area, NY37 firms reviewed New York area, NY172 firms reviewed Rochester area, NY25 firms reviewed Utica-Rome area, NY18 firms reviewed Asheville area, NC27 firms reviewed Charlotte-Concord area, NC143 firms reviewed Fayetteville area, NC20 firms reviewed Greensboro-High Point area, NC41 firms reviewed Greenville area, NC21 firms reviewed Raleigh-Cary area, NC71 firms reviewed Wilmington area, NC27 firms reviewed Cincinnati area, OH55 firms reviewed Cleveland area, OH68 firms reviewed Columbus area, OH105 firms reviewed Dayton-Kettering area, OH41 firms reviewed Oklahoma City area, OK70 firms reviewed Tulsa area, OK52 firms reviewed Bend area, OR24 firms reviewed Eugene-Springfield area, OR28 firms reviewed Portland-Hillsboro area, OR112 firms reviewed Salem area, OR20 firms reviewed Allentown-Bethlehem area, PA32 firms reviewed Harrisburg-Carlisle area, PA25 firms reviewed Lancaster area, PA24 firms reviewed Philadelphia area, PA99 firms reviewed Pittsburgh area, PA75 firms reviewed Scranton area, PA20 firms reviewed Providence-Warwick area, RI81 firms reviewed Charleston-North Charleston area, SC58 firms reviewed Greenville-Anderson area, SC28 firms reviewed Sioux Falls area, SD24 firms reviewed Memphis area, TN52 firms reviewed Nashville-Murfreesboro area, TN87 firms reviewed Sugar Land, TX37 firms reviewed Houston area, TX170 firms reviewed Austin-Round Rock area, TX84 firms reviewed College Station-Bryan area, TX25 firms reviewed Dallas-Fort Worth area, TX399 firms reviewed Killeen-Temple area, TX27 firms reviewed McAllen-Edinburg area, TX46 firms reviewed San Antonio-New Braunfels area, TX22 firms reviewed Ogden area, UT37 firms reviewed Provo-Orem area, UT43 firms reviewed Salt Lake City-Murray area, UT89 firms reviewed Arlington-Alexandria area, VA85 firms reviewed Charlottesville area, VA21 firms reviewed Richmond area, VA40 firms reviewed Virginia Beach-Chesapeake area, VA84 firms reviewed Bellingham area, WA28 firms reviewed Kennewick-Richland area, WA33 firms reviewed Seattle-Tacoma area, WA195 firms reviewed Spokane-Spokane Valley area, WA33 firms reviewed Milwaukee-Waukesha area, WI67 firms reviewed Online and remote (US-wide)384 firms reviewed
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Guides
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You're about to hand someone your bank feeds, your payroll and the numbers your tax return gets built on. Most bookkeeping websites tell you the same four things: they're experienced, they're responsive, they use QuickBooks, and they'd love to chat. None of that helps you pick one.
This index does something narrower. For every firm we list, we read the firm's own website, check what a state board, a state business registry or a software directory will confirm, and write down where each fact came from and on what date. Then we score the firm on how much of that a buyer can actually verify.
What the Evidence Score measures
The score runs from 0 to 100 and splits into four parts:
- Documented services and buyer fit, 40 points. Does the firm say plainly whether it does monthly bookkeeping, catch-up work, payables and receivables, payroll and month-end reporting, and for which industries and software?
- Qualifications a third party confirms, 20 points. An active CPA license on a state board's register, a software advisor-directory listing, or a bookkeeping credential we can look up. A firm's own claim to a credential earns nothing here.
- Pricing and process out in the open, 25 points. How the firm prices, what a package includes, how onboarding works, when reports arrive, and who you'll deal with.
- Identity and continuity, 15 points. A registered business entity, a formation date on the state record, a contact route that works, and a privacy page.
Beside every score sits a coverage figure. Coverage is how much of the 100 points we could check at all. A firm with 60 points at 95% coverage has shown you a lot. A firm at 40% coverage isn't ranked, because we don't know enough yet, and we say so instead of guessing.
Why there are no stars
A review count mostly reflects how often a firm asks for reviews. It won't tell you whether your books get reconciled by the 15th. Map-listing terms also don't let a directory copy their ratings. So where we have verified a firm's Google profile, its page links to it, and you can read the reviews there, at the source.
How to use a list
- Open your state or market page and start with the comparison table. It puts services, software, pricing approach, local or remote, and any verified credential side by side.
- Shortlist two or three firms that document the work you need. If you're months behind on your books, catch-up work matters more than anything else in the table.
- Open each firm's profile. Every line shows its source, whether the firm said it about itself or a third party confirmed it, and the date we checked.
- Take the gaps into your first call. "Not verified" isn't a mark against a firm. It's the question to ask.
Before you sign anything
Three short guides cover what trips most owners up: the difference between a bookkeeper, a CPA and a tax preparer, how bookkeeping is priced, and what a monthly service should hand you each month.
One thing to know up front. Bookkeeping Index is run by Pleiades Consultancy, a marketing firm with bookkeeping and accounting clients. Those clients get a separate, labelled Featured slot, and it doesn't change their score or their place in any list. The disclosures page has the full terms.
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