Hire the Best Bookkeepers in Tennessee

Bookkeeper/accountant and business consultant with 20 years of experience specializing in small businesses and startups. I'm known both personally and professionally for my consistency, clarity, practicality, and focus. I‘m highly motivated, efficient, detail-oriented, and have unparalleled organizational skills. One of my greatest strengths is to develop and implement processes that improve efficiency and solidify company foundations. My work history includes bookkeeping/accounting, HR (hiring and employee onboarding strategy), and business process analysis. My degree is in Business and Organizational Management with a minor in Accounting. I am a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor. I have extensive bookkeeping experience with: —account reconciliation —creating and analyzing financial reports —tracking sales —AP/AR —financial modeling, projections, and budgeting —clean up of company bookkeeping and financial processes that have been neglected I can help you: —Optimize Financial Operations: Streamline financial processes, conduct thorough account reconciliations, and comprehensive clean-up of neglected bookkeeping— resulting in detailed financial reports for informed decision-making. —Enhance HR Strategies: Provide expertise in small business HR, including hiring strategies and employee onboarding, while analyzing and optimizing processes for efficiency and effectiveness. —Optimize Operational Efficiency: Conduct detailed business process analysis, identifying inefficiencies and implementing tailored strategies to streamline operations, optimizing workflows for enhanced efficiency and cost-effectiveness, contributing to overall organizational improvement. —Assist in Organizational Optimization: Collaborate with your team to reevaluate and optimize existing processes and organizational structure, ensuring alignment with strategic goals and fostering a culture of continuous improvement within your organization. I am proficient with QuickBooks Online, Gusto, GSuite, Microsoft Office Suite, Stripe, and Squarespace. I am a quick learner of new software and systems and can adapt easily to the programs you use. My strong initiative and exceptional time-management skills, combined with my written and verbal communication skills, will allow me to assist you and your business in achieving your goals.

Sarah is the Quickbooks Clean-Up Queen - the messier, the better. Her primary offering is providing ongoing full-charge bookkeeping for small businesses. Sarah is a numbers nerd. Let her do the maths so you can get back to the business you love!

With over 30 years of proven experience in accounting, tax, and financial strategy, I help business owners cut through financial confusion and gain the clarity they need to grow. Whether you're looking for a strategic CFO, a reliable tax professional, or a long-term financial partner—I'm here to provide professional, timely, and tech-powered solutions you can trust.

Are you starting a new business and don't want to deal with the books? Do you have an established business and no longer want to deal with the books? If so, you are in the right place! Handling all the aspects of the business on your own can be mentally and physically exhausting. I'm here to help you do what you do best! 🙌 Wouldn't you rather be handling the part of the business that satisfies you the most? I know you want to ensure all your transactions are entered and recorded correctly when tax time comes! Using Quickbooks online, I can manage your: - accounts payable - accounts receivable - record transactions to the appropriate accounts - organizing transactions by vendor/customer - monthly bank, credit card & loan reconciliations - balance sheet - income statement (profit & loss report) - creating a customized chart of accounts - Quickbooks clean-up - other needs can be discussed Items I do not handle that your tax accountant or CPA will need to take care of: - taxes of any kind - closing J/E (yearly), unless provided by your CPA/tax accountant - depreciation, unless provided by your CPA/tax accountant - budgeting My monthly rate starts at $149.99. A little about me: I have a wonderful hubby of 15 years & an amazing 10-year-old daughter. ❤ I have lived in Tennessee my entire life and will never get tired of our beautiful mountains. I have a degree in accounting. I have also worked in bookkeeping for the last 10 years with a couple of different construction & painting company's, consulting firms, video production, etc. Numbers, organization, and helping businesses keep their books in order are my passion! Let's connect. 🤝

I enjoy solving accounting and tax puzzles. I am a CPA licensed in both TN and UT, registered as a tax preparer in New York and formerly was an Enrolled Agent before I earned my CPA license. I own a little tax problem solving / QuickBooks ramp-ups consulting firm in eastern TN. I have 28 years experience in full charge bookkeeping and construction job costing as well as I deeply understand other industries. Most people don't know this but if you change how and when you enter data into QuickBooks you can unlock all kinds of keen performance insights into your firm and its operations as well as timesavers. I have just invested these past two months into learning how to drastically reduce the amount of time it takes me to do a full QuickBooks cleanup or ramp-up, using the Microsoft Copilot AI, Excel spreadsheets analytics, and a couple of additional 3rd party apps that integrate with QuickBooks. The AI makes mistakes about a third of the time so its work must be verified carefully by me. But, my new CPA client advisory service skillset I just acquired has cut my time needed to do the ProAdvisor full cleanups down from a year to just three weeks to six weeks [full-time hours equivalent] for the really complex ones. I used to work for Intuit on its prestigious QuickBooks Live Cleanup Team. I also recently worked for Tax Act full time to prepare small business returns during its busy season. I formerly taught accounting, business law, business management and human resources management at Bryant and Stratton College located just outside of Buffalo NY. I am a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor and certified in QuickBooks payroll as well. I know 3rd party payroll workflows / data entry as well as apps integration. Why I Created My Virtual Small Business Incubator website: To help struggling USA entrepreneurs and overwhelmed adult learners reclaim control of their finances, business systems, and confidence—using simple, affordable tools and strategic thinking. You don’t need a big budget. You just need the right strategy plus realistic marketing and pivot planning feedback. There are six different "voices" you need to learn how to pay attention to in order to become profitable and locate / stay within your firm's unique prosperity zone. I teach them to my business incubator entrepreneurs. I also teach 3 college classes, self-study at your own pace and tuition free, including QuickBooks Online Foundations inside my business incubator online community. Other Things About Me That Set Me Apart: * We were able to use our job skills, my community empowerment research and an emphasis on workplace safety to turn around, thrive and grow my husband's specialty pressure washer business on less than half of the operating cash that it took his competitors to run on. [It was restaurant hood cleaning firm that also repaired commercial cooking appliances.] We are willing to share how we did this! There is much you can do with your buildings and equipment to control your overall costs. I am a highly trained physical facilities property manager. * I am excellent at getting data into QuickBooks from other apps and helping you sync apps with QuickBooks or other management apps. * I am able to spot and fix errors in your QuickBooks and help you implement internal controls to prevent future errors. I've been using QuickBooks Online and Desktop since before Intuit was Intuit and I am expert level ProAdvisor. * I am also a paralegal, able to quickly and accurately do legal research. While I cannot represent you nor give advice as an attorney, I can do pre-tax court problem solving intervention plus prepare/package the evidence needed for your tax attorney to be much more likely to prevail in a court case. I am adept to find fraud and other accounting errors and help you build tax timesavers into your QuickBooks workflows. * I was invited to be a guest lecturer at an international conference of educators held in York, England, Great Britain in 2014. I shared my research on how to use technology to empower struggling adults. * Cleanups, setups, and rebuilds are hard to predict. I never know exactly what I will find in my QuickBooks Ramp-ups and management consultants as there are so many wildcard variables at play as far as what has gone wrong, the time / effort needed to fix it, and the number of business transactions that your company has. For this reason, I prefer to use a pay-as-you-go milestones method. I do not commit to more than 10 hours of work per week, so I can make sure my work is top quality. We agree on up to $500 work-block milestones [14 hours] and I take your project as far as I can during those approved hours. You pay only for the actual project time it takes me to get the project done. You will be asked to sign up for a 3rd party integration app or two for a couple of months, to help reduce my bookkeeping data entry time. We re-evaluate the project and my work tasks together at the end of each milestone.

I help businesses work smarter — whether that means getting their financials in order, building a marketing strategy that actually performs, or figuring out how AI can save their team 20 hours a week. With 25+ years across advertising, marketing, and business operations — including Managing Partner at MediaCom Istanbul and SVP at The Buntin Group Nashville — I've spent my career solving real business problems at every level. From running P&L to building campaigns for global brands, I understand how businesses actually work, not just how they should work on paper. What I bring that most consultants can't: I sit at the intersection of three disciplines most people keep separate — marketing strategy, business operations, and AI implementation. That combination means I can walk into any growing business and find where the real problems are, then fix them. My AI work focuses on practical results: building Claude-powered workflows that cut pitch preparation from 3 days to 3 hours, developing content strategies that position brands for AI-generated search (AEO), and creating prompt libraries that let marketing teams move faster without sacrificing quality. My operations work focuses on the financial clarity that growing businesses need: clean books, accurate reporting, and the kind of financial visibility that helps owners make confident decisions. I'm bilingual in English and Turkish, and I work with clients in both the US and Turkish markets — a combination that's rare and genuinely useful for businesses operating across both. If you're a marketing agency, a growing brand, or a business owner who knows things could run better — let's talk about where AI and smarter systems can make the biggest difference for you.