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We reviewed 135 firms in New Hampshire: 48 met the listing bar and 37 reached 70% evidence coverage, and 29 of them hold a numbered place on one of its 2 ranked lists.
New Hampshire has two metro pages. Manchester-Nashua covers Bedford, Merrimack and the rest of Hillsborough County, and the Boston area page covers the Seacoast and Rockingham County towns such as Portsmouth, Salem and Derry. Start with the one nearest you. Firms elsewhere in the state are listed below.
Outside the metro pages: 20 profiles reviewed, 10 met the listing bar, 7 scored (evidence coverage of 70% or more).
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18 bookkeeping firms in the Boston (New Hampshire part) area, checked against their own sites and public records: 1 publish a monthly price, and QuickBooks is the software named most. No stars, no paid ranks.
20 bookkeeping firms in the Manchester-Nashua area, checked against their own sites and public records: 1 publish a monthly price, and QuickBooks is the software named most. No stars, no paid ranks.
Check a New Hampshire bookkeeper on QuickStart and the OPLC license search, learn the Meals and Rooms and BPT/BET basics, then ask about price and reports.
The top two firms on the Boston (New Hampshire part) list, Twin Oaks Bookkeeping LLC and Affinity Bookkeeping Plus LLC, side by side on services, pricing, software and what public records confirm.
The top two firms on the Manchester-Nashua list, BlueRock Bookkeeping and Honeycomb Bookkeeping, side by side on services, pricing, software and what public records confirm.
Firms outside the market pages that met the listing bar. A town gets its own page once it has 8 listed firms.
| Firm | Where | Services documented | Software | Pricing | Credentials verified | Coverage (%) | Evidence Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amoskeag Bookkeeping Services, LLC Says it serves: construction, medical, law firms | Hooksett, NH Local | Not verified | QuickBooks | Not verified | Not verified | 59 | Not scored |
| Carew & Wells | Concord, NH | payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks | Not verified | Not verified | 86 | 36 |
| Dole Accounting Services | Enfield, NH Local + remote | AP/AR, payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks | Not verified | IRS preparer record | 78 | 32 |
| John E Libby CPA PLLC Says it serves: real estate | Moultonborough, NH Local + remote | payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks, ADP, Paychex | Not verified | Not verified | 86 | 54 |
| Ledger House Bookkeeping & Tax Commercial disclosure: Ledger House Bookkeeping & Tax is a Pleiades Consultancy client and receives this separate Featured placement. This does not affect its score or organic position. Disclosures | NH (state only) Remote | monthly bookkeeping, catch-up/cleanup, AP/AR, payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks Online | Not verified | Not verified | 86 | 67 |
| New Hampshire Certified Public Accountants and Business Consultants Says it serves: attorneys | Concord, NH | payroll coordination | Not verified | Not verified | IRS preparer record | 92 | 36 |
| Plodzik & Sanderson P.A. Says it serves: nonprofits | Concord, NH | AP/AR, payroll coordination, month-end close | Not verified | Not verified | Not verified | 92 | 37 |
| REaL Books | Chichester, NH Local + remote | monthly bookkeeping, catch-up/cleanup, AP/AR, month-end close | QuickBooks Online, Xero | Not verified | Not verified | 48 | Not scored |
| Safebooks Says it serves: construction, retail, salons, fitness | Pembroke, NH | monthly bookkeeping, AP/AR, payroll coordination, month-end close | QuickBooks | Not verified | Not verified | 92 | 45 |
| Stinson Associates | Laconia, NH | payroll coordination | QuickBooks | Not verified | Active CPA firm or individual license, IRS preparer record | 50 | Not scored |
New Hampshire splits along its two metro areas. The Manchester-Nashua page covers Hillsborough County, and the Boston area page covers the New Hampshire towns that the federal definition places in the Boston metro, most of them on the Seacoast or in Rockingham County. A firm with an office anywhere else in the state appears on this page instead.
Business registrations and formation dates come from the Secretary of State's QuickStart records. CPA licenses and firm permits were looked up on New Hampshire's professional licensing search, one firm at a time, for the firms we reviewed first. Firms we added later show "Not verified" for a license until that lookup is logged, and every profile links to the state's own search so you can check it yourself.
A trade name registered with the state is shown as a registration, not as proof of how long the firm has operated.
Some New Hampshire firms say they work with clients remotely, so a firm in Nashua can serve a business in Keene. Each metro page has a remote filter, and firms that serve clients anywhere in the country are on the online page.
General information, not tax advice. Which of these reach your business depends on its entity type, what it sells, whether it has employees and the schedule each agency assigns. Your bookkeeper keeps the records; you, or whoever your engagement letter names, file. Checked on the linked official pages on September 26, 2026.
New Hampshire registers trade names separately from companies. A trade name shows the firm is on the state record, but its date doesn't prove how long the firm has operated, so it earns no years-operating points.
One firm at a time on the state's professional licensing search, for the firms we reviewed first. Where a record turned up, the profile shows it with the date we checked. Where none did, the profile says what we searched for.
Yes. Providers that serve clients anywhere in the country are on our online providers page, compared on the same evidence rules.
No. Positions follow scores, and scores follow evidence with fixed weights. A client of Pleiades Consultancy gets a separate, labelled Featured slot that doesn't change its score or its position. See the disclosures.
Dates are when we checked. Report an error.