Bookkeeping & Back Office Solutions to Grow Your Small Business & Achieve Peace of Mind
Focus on what matters with North Star on your side. We take care of the books and back office support so you can spend less time worrying about your finances and more time running your business.
How Can We Help You?
I’m in ‘growth mode’ and I need to offload bookkeeping to stay focused.
Congratulations on your success! It’s normal for fast-growing small businesses to experience administrative challenges during growth periods. Owners’ time needs to be freed up to focus on product and sales, but it might not yet be feasible to hire a new employee.
Partnering with a trusted small business bookkeeper to handle day to day transactions, payroll, reporting and the monitoring of your finances is the key for small business owners to make the jump out of the back office and back where they belong - repping their company and creating opportunity.
Our longtime bookkeeper retired/resigned and we need an interim solution with less overhead than a temp agency.
When changes shake up the routines that make your business run, it’s easy to lose track of the small things that can have a big impact. Instead of going through a temp agency, work with a full charge bookkeeper who can hit the ground running and bridge the gaps while you focus on hiring the best candidate.
I want a trusted, long-term bookkeeper, but I don’t have full-time needs.
For businesses with simpler transactions, lower activity volumes or busy/slow seasons, a full time bookkeeper can be costly. Once the initial learning curve is passed, you’d be surprised how many businesses only need 1 or two hours per week from a bookkeeper to keep their finances tidy and engines running. It’s an affordable option with the flexibility to match your business volume.
We need to improve the processes, systems and communication between accounting and other departments.
Businesses are formed to make money - and making money always ties back to bookkeeping. Every department can make more informed decisions and fine-tune key performance indicators when the books are up to date, accurate, and appropriate information is easy to access via reporting or adjacent software systems.
On the flip side, information coming into the finance department is just as crucial - is your service billing accurate and up to date? Are you taking full advantage of the features your software systems offer to streamline processes? Is inventory being tracked correctly in your accounting system? Are there other bottlenecks of information that need to be fixed? Any one of these issues can impact cashflow, cost of goods and profitability. We work with you to get the right data flowing to the right places, accurately and on time.
Our Services
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As the bookkeeper for your small business, we are always focused on helping you reach your goals. The value of handing off day-to-day things like financial tracking or determining owner’s draw and purchasing power cannot be understated when you’re trying to grow your business or launch a new product.
But beyond the day to day, we can help you understand and gain insight from your financial reports, so you’re always ready to make the best decisions for your business.
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“Full Charge” bookkeeping means that we take over the management of all of your business’s accounting duties, acting as a full-service, one-person accounting department.
Depending on your business, this role might include payroll, revenue operations, working with your preparer to file taxes, investor reporting, service billing, human resources, insurance administration, AP/AR and more.
Let’s find out together how to free up your time and set you up for the next stages of success.
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If you have high growth goals, back office management is the backbone that will get you there.
Back office management we can cover for you includes:Accounts Payable/Receivable
Records Management
Insurance/Workers Comp Audits
Annual Reports
Wage Law Compliance
Mail Processing
Bank Deposits
Every business is different - let’s talk about what you need and find out how we can help.
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For growing businesses, RevOps can be an ever-evolving dialogue between sales and marketing, product, finance, compliance and more.
North Star’s RevOps services help to make sure every department is pulling together in the right direction, that your software systems are in sync and that you have reliable, insightful data about your business’s performance.With that great data, we’ll work to develop metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) that tell a story about your progress, to guide your decision-making and accelerate your sales programs.
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For small businesses seeking venture capital, grant funding or investment support, North Star offers proposal and grant writing solutions that unify the numbers at the core of your business with the ‘big hairy audacious goals’ you’re aiming to achieve, to reveal a big picture that attracts additional investment. Find out more with a free consultation today.
Let’s Work Together.
victoria@northstarbookkeepingmaine.com
207.400.5494
About North Star
North Star Bookkeeping is the practice of Victoria Karol, a certified QuickBooks Pro Advisor, located in Portland, Maine. Victoria has been building businesses as a bookkeeper, back office manager and marketing professional for more than 25 years, specializing in high-growth markets including SaaS product firms, restaurants and hospitality venues, service-based companies and both brick-and-mortar and online retail.
Victoria believes that small business owners don’t have to sacrifice their mind and body to pursue growth and achieve their goals. With the right combination of professional support, businesses - and their owners - can be set free not just to survive our tumultuous economic times, but to thrive.
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