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Help Center Create your LedgerHQ account Complete your firm setup Firm onboarding and sign-in Set up client onboarding Manage client engagement billing Manage companies in CRM Send and schedule CRM emails Create your first company Create a company and add owners Company profile, account numbers, and period lock

Move Or Start Books

Choose how to start or move a company Send an import to Assisted Import QuickBooks import with Tally Move a company from QuickBooks in the right order Import QuickBooks financials Check a QuickBooks import before importing Verify a company after import Choose a company import workflow Build historical books from bank exports

Habits

Opening balances Monthly review Year-end handoff Loan payments Payroll from the bank feed Owner contributions and draws

Banks, Coding And Posting

Connect a bank or credit card Connect bank feeds Understand pending bank transactions Find missing bank transactions Reconnect a bank that needs attention Disconnect or pause a bank feed Import bank and card history Bank connection messages How Tally codes your bank feed How Tally settles transfers and card payments How Tally investigates unknown money How Tally watches your bank connections How your bank rules get made and maintained Bank rules and auto-posting Understand what is waiting in Fast Coding Code one bank transaction Code an internal transfer Code a credit-card payment Resolve a bank-feed warning Exclude a bank transaction Resolve a held check Create a narrow bank rule Understand what a bank rule will post Stop an overbroad bank rule Understand your posting options Post one coded transaction Post selected transactions Post every coded row for one bank account Use Post coded in Fast Coding Review what posted and who posted it Undo a posted bank transaction Reverse an accidental posting batch

Statements, Requests And Reconciliation

Set up regular reconciliation tracking Set up a year-end true-up Statements and statement coverage Client requests and messages How LedgerHQ messages company owners Use Tally with bank statements Bank reconciliation Prepare for your first reconciliation Start a bank reconciliation Match transactions to the statement Handle outstanding checks and deposits Enter credit-card and loan balances correctly Investigate a reconciliation difference Finish a bank reconciliation

Accounting And Reports

Company overview dashboard Chart of accounts and registers Journal entries Correct a bank-feed journal entry Scheduled journal entries Fixed assets Period review and period lock Reports Invoices Customers and what they owe Manage customer subscriptions and portal access Brand a company's invoices

Tally

Tally AI bookkeeper Configuring Tally settings Connect Tally to apps with Zapier or Composio Tally decisions and authority Historical Tally automation activity Tally evidence attachments Tally Files and task checklists Ask Client Review a retained earnings follow-up with Tally Tally and support Create a LedgerHQ support ticket Report an unexpected change to the books

Account, Billing And Mobile

Billing and trials LedgerHQ mobile app Account and profile settings API keys and MCP access

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Year-end handoff

Get the books to a state a CPA can file from, then send one package.

Get the books to a state a CPA can file from, then send one package.

Tax prep is a handoff, not a report download. If monthly reviews happened, this is short. If they did not, this is the catch-up.

What The CPA Actually Needs

Every ordinary transaction for the year is coded and posted
Transfers and card payments are matched
Owner-paid business spend is on the books
Banks and cards reconcile to statements
Open requests and Ask Client are resolved or explained
Period is locked after the package goes out

Walk The Year In This Order

Confirm every bank and card synced or imported through year-end.
Clear leftover uncoded rows for the full year, not just last month.
Book leftover specials: loans, payroll, owner draws, fixed assets.
Reconcile each account through December 31.
Read the annual P&L and Balance Sheet for anything that does not make sense.
Export the reports and collect statements, payroll reports, and notes in Files.
Lock the period so the package cannot drift. See Period review and period lock.

Do not leave mysteries uncategorized

If you do not know a row, add a memo and a Client Request. An unexplained Ask Client balance is still better than a missing expense.

What To Send

Profit and Loss
Balance Sheet
Trial Balance or General Ledger
Statements, payroll reports, and notes

Four package cards: Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Trial Balance or General Ledger, and statements with payroll reports and notes

See Reports for exports.

Checklist

Feeds cover Jan 1 through Dec 31
Specials are booked
Recs are finished
Reports were read
Package is in Files
Period is locked

FAQ

Monthly review

Fifteen minutes once a month so small issues do not wait until tax time.

Loan payments

One bank withdrawal is two books: principal and interest.

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What The CPA Actually Needs

Walk The Year In This Order