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Bookkeeping services in Sacramento

Monthly bookkeeping for small businesses across Sacramento County, Roseville, and El Dorado Hills — your accounts reconciled in QuickBooks Online, payroll run on time, and both tax returns filed by the same person who kept the books.

Bundled with payroll and year-end taxes from $500/month. See full pricing.

Sacramento County Roseville El Dorado Hills
What you get

Bookkeeping, and everything attached to it

Most firms hand you bookkeeping and send you elsewhere for payroll and taxes. Here it is one engagement, one accountant, one monthly price.

Monthly bookkeeping

Your books kept clean and current in QuickBooks Online — up to 2 bank or credit-card accounts reconciled every month, with reports you can actually read.

Payroll

Pay runs for up to 3 employees, payroll tax deposits and filings, and the year-end forms — on schedule, every time.

Quarterly tax check-ins

Planning during the year, while there is still time to act — so April holds no surprises.

Business tax return

Your year-end federal and state business return — S-Corporation, C-Corporation, partnership, or LLC — prepared and filed by the person who kept your books.

Owner's personal return

Your individual federal and state return is part of the bundle — because your business and personal taxes are one picture, not two.

Books behind? Cleanup first

Months or years of catch-up is normal, and it is not a reason to put this off. Cleanup is scoped and quoted separately in writing, then the monthly bundle picks up from clean books.

Service area

Local to Sacramento, available anywhere

APAL LLC works in person with businesses around the Sacramento region and remotely with clients across the country. You choose which.

In person around Sacramento

Sacramento, Roseville, Folsom, El Dorado Hills, Rancho Cordova, Elk Grove, and the rest of Sacramento County. If you would rather hand over a folder than upload a file, that works here.

Remote anywhere in the USA

Everything runs in QuickBooks Online with secure document upload, so where you are never limits the service. Most of the work happens without a meeting at all.

Pricing

One monthly price, published

Bookkeeping, payroll, and both tax returns for a single monthly fee. The number is right here — not held back for a sales call.

Monthly

$500/month · starting price

Covers up to 2 bank or credit-card accounts and 3 employees on payroll.

Start monthly — $500

Over those limits, or not sure? Book a call instead.

Annual, prepaid

$5,000/year · two months free

The same scope as the monthly plan, paid twelve months up front.

Start annual — $5,000

Over those limits, or not sure? Book a call instead.

As you grow

Bigger than the starting scope?

The $500 tier is one company, up to 2 accounts and 3 employees, covering books, payroll, and both tax returns. Past that, most engagements land between $750 and $1,500 a month. Where you fall depends on your transaction volume, how many accounts and entities are involved, and the condition your books arrive in — a low-volume set of books can still be a lot of work if the records are tangled.

Adding tax planning or part-time CFO work goes up from there. Either way you get the exact number in writing at your onboarding call, before any work starts. Within the starting tier the maths is public too: one extra account is $75/month, one extra employee is $15/month.

Behind on your books?

Catch-up is quoted separately

If your books are months or years behind, that clean-up is its own one-time project, priced after we look at the actual file — never guessed at up front. The monthly price above starts once your books are current.

Firms around Sacramento commonly quote $800 or more for the Essential scope — when you can get a price at all. Every number on this page is public.

Getting started

Onboarding takes three steps

1

Two-minute intake

Tell us the basics below — entity type, team size, and where your books stand today.

2

Free onboarding call

Pick a time that works. We talk through your situation and confirm your monthly price.

3

Your quote, in writing

You get the fixed price and scope in writing. Sign it, pay online by card or bank transfer, and we take the books off your plate.

Get your free quote

Two minutes, no commitment. Your answers land with Tony directly, and you book the call on the next screen.

Prefer to talk first? Call or text (209) 265-3950, or email tony@trustapal.com.

Book your onboarding call

Free, no commitment — we confirm your fit and your exact monthly price.

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