Accurate, detailed and personable; three of many qualities that Diane brings to the table every single day. There is no one I would trust more than Diane with my bookkeeping.
Ash Grove, Missouri · Greene County
Your bookkeeper, right here in Ash Grove
- Serving
- Ash Grove, Missouri, Greene County
- From my office
- Based right here in Ash Grove
- Services
- Cleanup, monthly bookkeeping, consulting at $85 an hour
- Credential
- Diane Jones, Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor
- Google reviews
- Rated 5.0, read them
- Call me
- (417) 323-2629
Ash Grove is home. My office is here in town, and if you live here you’ve probably driven past it without knowing a bookkeeping practice sat inside. We’re about 1,300 people, a bank, a pharmacy, a handful of restaurants, and the shops and trades that keep a small town running, with the Nathan Boone Homestead up the road for the history-minded. I’ve kept books for more than 30 years, over 20 of them as the accounting manager for one company. Now I do that work from an office in my own town.
Most of my Ash Grove clients are also my neighbors.
The businesses that keep Ash Grove running
The restaurants, the salon chairs, the repair shops, the trades. Small service businesses are most of a town this size, and their books get the same care I’d give a big Springfield firm. I reconcile merchant deposits, keep the accounts current, and send reports you can read over coffee. My service business bookkeeping page covers what that looks like month to month.
When the whole company is you
A lot of Ash Grove work is one person with a truck, a trailer, or a laptop. Self-employed bookkeeping keeps business and personal money separated and your accounts reconciled, so April stops being a scramble. It’s meant for a one-person business, and that’s what most of my neighbors are running.
Stop by, or just call
It starts the same way for a neighbor as for anyone else: thirty free minutes on the phone or over Zoom. Call (417) 323-2629 or set up the call, and I’ll tell you straight what shape your books are in. Once I’ve seen the file, you get a fixed price in writing before I touch anything, and the pricing page explains how I build that quote. I’ll call you back within 15 to 20 minutes during the day.
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.
Talk to me
What people say about working with me
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.
Where Ash Grove sits from my desk
Ash Grove is my home base. My office is right here in town, and most of my client work happens in QuickBooks Online and over Zoom no matter where the client sits.
My home base in Ash Grove
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Questions
Questions from Ash Grove business owners
Can I just stop by your office in Ash Grove?
Call first so I’m at my desk and not on a Zoom call, and then yes, absolutely. Sitting down across the table is one of the good parts of hiring a bookkeeper in your own town.
Is my business too small to bother a bookkeeper with?
If it’s big enough to file taxes, it’s big enough to have clean books. Monthly service is a flat fee quoted in writing, and my self-employed bookkeeping was built for one-person businesses. The first call is free, so there’s no harm in asking.
Do you only work with Ash Grove businesses?
No. I work with clients around Springfield and southwest Missouri, and with businesses in other states the same way, mostly in QuickBooks Online and over Zoom. Clients here in town just get the shortest drive on my calendar.
Nearby areas I also serve
Wondering where the books stand for your Ash Grove business?
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.