When the Numbers Don’t Make Sense, We’re Here to Help.
Running a business means balancing customers, employees, deadlines, and countless daily decisions, often leaving little time to keep the finances organized. We understand how quickly the books can fall behind and how stressful that uncertainty can become. Whether your books are behind, your profits are unclear, or tax season feels overwhelming, we’ll help you organize the numbers and regain control.
Unclear Job Profitability
You are busy, but cannot tell which projects actually make money.
Messy or Delayed Books
Reconciliations and categorization fall behind as the work grows.
Tax Season
Surprises
Your records are not organized early enough to make good decisions.
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Services
Financial Clarity At Every Stage
Wherever your business is today—getting started, catching up, or preparing to grow—we’re ready to meet you there. Shield Books provides personalized bookkeeping support and practical financial guidance tailored to your needs, helping you move forward with organized records, clearer numbers, and greater confidence.
Monthly
Bookkeeping
Keep your books accurate, organized, and up to date without losing hours to financial paperwork.
Shield Books handles transaction categorization, account reconciliation, month-end reporting, and ongoing bookkeeping so you always have a reliable view of your business. For contractors, that means clearer job costs, better cash-flow visibility, and fewer surprises at tax time.
Cleanup and
Setup
Behind on your books or unsure whether QuickBooks was set up correctly?
Shield Books can reconcile past accounts, correct misclassified transactions, organize your chart of accounts, and create a cleaner bookkeeping structure for the future. We build a dependable financial foundation designed around the way your contracting business actually operates.
Advisory and
Financial Guidance
Financial reports are only valuable when you understand what they mean.
Shield Books helps you interpret your numbers, evaluate job profitability, monitor cash flow, prepare budgets, and make informed decisions about growth. You receive practical guidance based on your business, not generic reports filled with accounting terminology.
Why Shieldbooks?
At Shield Books, you receive experienced financial guidance from someone who takes the time to understand your business, answer your questions, and explain the numbers clearly.
We combine professional expertise with personal attention, responsive communication, and solutions tailored to how your business operates, without passing you between departments or letting you get lost in a large firm’s process.
Backed by professional training and certifications you can trust.
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Our Process
A Simple Three-Step Process
1
Discovery
Call
Discuss the business, current books and goals.
2
REVIEW
& PLAN
Assess the records and recommend the right engagement.
3
MONTHLY
REPORTING
Keep the books current and use the numbers confidently.
Why OUR CLIENTS like working with us!
At Shield Books, we understand that great bookkeeping is about more than accurate numbers—it’s about genuine care. We listen, respond promptly, and take the time to understand each client’s needs, providing dependable support and a personal experience every step of the way.
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Don't just take our word for it, see what our clients have to say about their experience working with us.
Elise has been managing our books as a mid-sized construction company for over two years. Her attention to detail, efficiency, and persistence are strong and she has consistently held together a critical part of our business. Great value and even better fit with our team. Thank you Elise!
Nick Vanderheyden
I would highly recommend Shield Books! The owner is extremely informative and knew just how to suit my needs. I will definitely continue to use this service. They were very professional and completed the job timely. My expectations were exceeded!
Christie Cyr -
From Thumbtack
Finding a good bookkeeper isn't easy, but Shield Books delivered. Within just a few weeks they had my books cleaned up and caught up, and my financials are more streamlined than they've ever been. I feel confident referring people because I trust Elise's integrity and technical skill. If your books are a mess or you just need someone reliable to keep things on track, these are your people.
I have been self employed for 16 years and have had multiple bookkeepers over the years and Elise is hands down the BEST. Timely updates and my books were so clean, my CPA could get my taxes done is much less time this year. Minimal “ask my accountant” expenses and she is a consummate professional. I highly recommend.
Lisa Ayotte
Shield Books (Elise Bryant) has been the Design Build Consortium, LLC (DBC) accountant for over a year. Her expertise, patience, and knowledge have improved our process by 150%. Elise's recommendations and skills have transformed our financial accounting system. Information required by bonding agents would take days to generate. Now, Elise has improved the process to provide a profit and loss update within one hour. She recommended that DBC switch from Desktop QuickBooks to Intuit Online QuickBooks. Wow, with this change and her oversight and guidance, our accounting process has moved into the 21st century. I could continue with many other improvements, but what you need to know most especially! If you're considering making an accountant change, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Elise at Shield Books!! Please feel free to reach out to me. Elise is a dynamic, driven, professional with a great personality and a get-things-done professional. Make the change, you WILL be very pleased, satisfied, and won't look back! One of many delighted customers!
Absolutely outstanding company. My books were a complete mess, and they completely understood and made me so comfortable talking to them about everything. They went through years of transactions to get my books in order. I felt they were very professional and thoughtful when asking questions so as not to overwhelm me. I am so blessed to have connected with them because when you don't know who to turn to and then to find such a caring company to work with my prayers were answered. After interviewing several companies, I knew after only speaking with her for a few minutes that my prayers had been answered in the best way. You will not regret hiring Shield Books. Give them a call and see for yourself. Thank you from the bottom of my heart, Elise.