Contractors, trades, shops, and family restaurants — Chino's businesses work with their hands. Your books should be one thing you don't have to.
Book a Free 15-Min Call Run the 2-Minute Health CheckMCKI is based next door in Chino Hills, and Chino is where a lot of my kind of client works: the trades and contractors in the industrial parks off Central Avenue, the family restaurants along Riverside Drive, the businesses growing up around The Preserve. Chino builds, hauls, fixes, and feeds — and that kind of work creates exactly the bookkeeping problems I specialize in.
Contractors and trades have the messiest books in small business: job costing across projects, progress invoicing, 1099 subcontractors, equipment purchases that should be assets but get booked as expenses. Monthly bookkeeping built for trade businesses →
Chino's industrial parks add another layer — light manufacturers and food processors carrying inventory, COGS, and equipment on small-business books. The same accounting nobody taught the owner now drives every margin call and lending decision.
I handle all of it the same way: by hand, monthly, with one page that says what's actually happening.
Most monthly engagements run $225–$900/month · one-time books review $275–$800 by business size (credits in full toward your first month) · the 15-minute call ends with a real number, not "it depends."
"Mike was incredibly efficient and knowledgeable in identifying and correcting these issues, bringing our books back into accurate order. His handling of our monthly bookkeeping has been a great relief."
Yes — project-level books are a specialty, including subcontractor 1099 tracking and progress billing. You'll know which jobs make money the month they wrap, not at year-end.
Most monthly engagements run $225–$900/month depending on transaction volume and accounts. The free 15-minute call ends with a real number.
Yes. That's the cleanup step, fixed quote before any work starts, typically $2,000–$5,000 depending on how far back.
Nearby cities I serve: Chino Hills · Ontario
Fifteen minutes settles it. No pitch — sometimes the answer is "you're fine." Either way, you stop wondering.
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