The Problem With Piecing It Together
Most businesses don't choose a fragmented setup. They grow into one.
You start with an annual accountant who files the return. The bookkeeping falls to you, or a spouse, or an outside service. Payroll goes to a national provider. It holds together while you're small. Then payroll gets heavier, the filings multiply, the tax bills get harder to see coming, and you realize each provider only handles their own piece. Nobody owns the whole thing.
So the job of connecting it all falls to you, the one person who has the least time for it.
Full-service accounting fixes that by putting everything under one roof. Your books feed your tax plan. Your payroll flows into your books. Your tax exposure is projected all year, not discovered in April. And when something needs attention, we reach out first instead of waiting for you to catch it.
What's Included
Everything your business needs to run its finances, handled by one team:
- Bookkeeping. Monthly financials kept current, not cleaned up once a year, in QuickBooks where we're ProAdvisor certified.
- Payroll. Run on your schedule and filed correctly in every Ohio city your crews work.
- Tax preparation and planning. Returns filed on time, plus proactive planning in summer and late fall so you see the bill months ahead.
- Accounting and advisory. Someone actually reading the numbers, reviewing your entity structure and owner compensation, and guiding the decisions that come off them.
Because it's one team, nothing gets lost in the handoff between providers, and you're not the go-between anymore.
What You Get With One Team
- No costly surprises. You see your tax bill months ahead, and the monthly fee never changes.
- Timely responses. Answers from a real person, the same day or the next.
- Numbers you can trust. Books kept current every month, so your decisions rest on real numbers.
How It Works
Discovery
We start with a conversation to understand your business, on site when we can, and bring you a proposal.
Onboarding
We get you set up and running, with your first financials inside 30 days plus an initial tax projection, entity review, and compensation analysis.
Year-Round Service
Monthly financials and proactive tax planning in the summer and again in late fall, from a team that's reachable whenever a question comes up.
Who It's For
Full-service accounting fits owner-operated businesses that have outgrown doing it themselves:
- Contractors and the trades. General contractors, electricians, plumbers, HVAC, roofing, and excavation crews whose work crosses city lines. We keep the payroll and city filings right everywhere your teams go, and flag what's coming so a big year doesn't turn into a surprise bill.
- Home, field, and shop-based service businesses. Landscaping, remodeling, painting, cleaning, and auto repair shops with real payroll. We take the back office off your plate so your hours go back to the work.
- Owner-operated practices and small professional firms. Dental, chiropractic, optometry, and veterinary practices where the owner is also the practitioner, plus small law, engineering, and architecture firms.
See the industries we serve or get in touch if you're not sure you're a fit.
Built For Owner-Operated Businesses, Right Here In Southwest Ohio
Launch Accounting works out of the northern Cincinnati suburbs and has run on the same model since the mid-1980s. We've served thousands of Southwest Ohio businesses, and our client relationships average about seven years. We know Ohio's city income tax and municipal payroll rules cold, the local filings that out-of-state and national providers get wrong.
The firm is a team of four credentialed accountants, CPAs and EAs, including owner Steve Schneider, CPA, who has been featured as a small-business accounting expert in Cincy Magazine. We're a member of the Professional Association of Small Business Accountants and QuickBooks ProAdvisor certified. As the owner, everything runs through you. Our job is to take the accounting off your shoulders and run it well enough that you'd know right away if anything were off.
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Ready To Hand Off Your Accounting?
Hand your books, payroll, and taxes to one local team that owns the whole thing, plans ahead, and answers when you call. Get the accounting off your plate.