I’ve kept books for more than 30 years, over 20 of them as the accounting manager for one company. Now I do that same work for all types and sizes of businesses, around Springfield and southwest Missouri and, over Zoom, anywhere in the United States. Most of it runs in QuickBooks Online, some in other platforms.
Call (417) 323-2629 or have me call you.
I’m a Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, and I hold Intuit’s QuickBooks Online Certification Level 2, the one it used to call the Advanced certification. That comes from passing the certification exams and doing the work behind them, not from paying for a badge. I hold the QuickBooks Workforce Certification too (it used to be the payroll certification), so the payroll your provider runs lands in your books the right way. I also work alongside several CPA firms around Springfield. If you need a CPA, I’ll introduce you. If you are one, here’s how I work with firms.
Most of it runs in QuickBooks Online, some in other platforms, and we mostly talk on Zoom or the phone. Every transaction entered and classified, every account reconciled against the statements, every payroll transaction recorded and reconciled, and your financial package in a shared Google Drive folder by the 15th.
You get the price before I touch anything. Monthly service is a flat fee. Cleanups, including books that are years behind, get a fixed project quote, and I especially like getting the multi-year ones. Consulting is $85 an hour. The pricing page walks through it.
Your CPA files the return, and what they need is a reconciled, tax-ready file. That’s the part I do. The year-end package comes to you, and I’ll send it to your CPA directly if that’s what you want. Your payroll provider runs payroll, QuickBooks Payroll or another service, and I record and reconcile every payroll transaction in your books. I prepare and e-file your 1099s too, for an added fee billed per form.
Plenty of people call me embarrassed that they’re two or three years behind, and every one of them expects a scolding. Nobody gets one. You get a plan to get current and a price in writing before I start. Software sorts transactions fast, but it can’t tell you whether a charge is reasonable for your business. That takes somebody who knows your books.
As an accounting manager I oversee a finance team. My job is making sure accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll entries, inventory, costing by location, property, and job type, and bank reconciliations all get recorded properly in the financial statements. Then I read the financials and check that the percentages in every account look reasonable. I couldn’t do any of that without the full-charge bookkeeping I did earlier in my career, where the whole set of books was mine: the entries, the reconciliations, and the statements the owner reads at the end of the month.
I started Diane’s Bookkeeping Services because I enjoy working with business owners more than I enjoy overseeing a finance team. I’d rather sit with the person who owns the business, hear what’s worrying them, and hand back books they can actually use, without making them feel bad about how far behind they got.
Before computers and software, we kept books in a green ten or twelve column ledger book. Every journal entry was written by hand, and the financial statement and the balance sheet were built by hand from those entries. Once financial software arrived, the ledger books went in a drawer. What didn’t go away is knowing what sits behind every entry. Anyone who kept books the old way knows which entries get booked and where they map. Software posts a lot of them on the back end, and you never see them unless you know where to look. I know where to look, and that’s what separates me from a bookkeeper who only ever learned the software.
Diane is very competent and dependable. She has been working in the bookkeeping, finance, and records area for many years and does great work. Her services are recommended.
Home is Ash Grove, a small town about half an hour northwest of Springfield, and I like working where I live. Some of my clients are businesses I drive past: property managers, contractors, shops, and rental owners across Greene County and southwest Missouri. The Springfield Daily Citizen wrote a story about the practice. They got the details right, including the part where it’s just me on every file.
I work with clients across the United States, and the work is the same in every state: your bookkeeping file, Zoom, and the phone. If you’re near Springfield and would rather sit down in person, that’s easy to arrange.
A Form 990 on extension is due November 16, 2026. Your CPA needs reconciled, fund-level books to finish it, and that’s the part I do.
Filed an extension for 2025? Those returns are due October 15, 2026. Your CPA needs a reconciled 2025 file before then, and the sooner I see it the more room we both have.
1099s for your subs and vendors are due February 1, 2027, and they’re built from a full year of entered payments. If 2026 is behind, the last weeks of the year are the time to catch it up.
1099s for your subs and vendors are due February 1, 2027, the same day your payroll provider sends W-2s. If the 2026 books aren’t entered yet, that’s the first thing I’d fix.
S corporation and partnership returns are due March 15, 2027. Your CPA needs a reconciled 2026 file to file on time.
Individual returns are due April 15, 2027. A reconciled 2026 file is what your CPA needs to file, or to file the extension with real numbers.
On a free 30-minute call, you’ll hear plainly what shape your books are in and what I’d recommend. You don’t sign or owe anything unless you decide to go ahead.
A Form 990 on extension is due November 16, 2026. Your CPA needs reconciled, fund-level books to finish it, and that’s the part I do.
Filed an extension for 2025? Those returns are due October 15, 2026. Your CPA needs a reconciled 2025 file before then, and the sooner I see it the more room we both have.
1099s for your subs and vendors are due February 1, 2027, and they’re built from a full year of entered payments. If 2026 is behind, the last weeks of the year are the time to catch it up.
1099s for your subs and vendors are due February 1, 2027, the same day your payroll provider sends W-2s. If the 2026 books aren’t entered yet, that’s the first thing I’d fix.
S corporation and partnership returns are due March 15, 2027. Your CPA needs a reconciled 2026 file to file on time.
Individual returns are due April 15, 2027. A reconciled 2026 file is what your CPA needs to file, or to file the extension with real numbers.
I’ll call you back within 15 to 20 minutes during the day.