Practical bookkeeping for the Gateway to Glacier — built for the contractors, small manufacturers, and seasonal operators who keep Columbia Falls running. Accurate books, real job-costing, and reports in plain English, from someone who's actually run a trades business.
Columbia Falls is a hands-on, get-it-done kind of place — and most owners here would rather be on a job site or running their shop than wrestling with QuickBooks at the kitchen table. AJM Consulting takes the books off your plate so you can stay focused on the work that pays.
We're based 15 minutes away in Kalispell and serve businesses throughout Columbia Falls (59912) and the rest of Flathead County. Whether you're a builder framing new homes on the east side of the valley, a small shop along Nucleus Avenue, or a wood-products maker keeping the town's manufacturing roots alive, we keep your numbers accurate and tax-ready all year.
As the closest town to Glacier National Park's west entrance, Columbia Falls lives on a mix of tourism, trades and construction, light manufacturing, retail, and a fast-growing residential base — including short-term rentals built around Glacier visitors. We tailor your bookkeeping to how your business really earns, with special depth in contractor job-costing from our founder's years in construction and roofing.
Transactions recorded and categorized accurately every month, so your books are always current.
Every account reconciled monthly so the numbers match reality and nothing slips through.
See profit per job, not just overall — labor and materials tracked against each bid for Columbia Falls trades.
COGS, raw-material and finished-goods tracking, and margin per product line for small shops and makers.
Built for the Glacier rush — plan reserves in the busy months so the shoulder season doesn't sting.
Clean books all year mean a smooth handoff to your CPA at tax time — no scramble.
Plenty of Columbia Falls owners come to us after a busy Glacier season with a year's worth of receipts in a shoebox and a QuickBooks file that's drifted out of reality. That's our most common starting point — we catch you up, reconcile back as far as needed, fix the categories, and then put a simple monthly process in place so you never fall behind again.
A national app or a 1-800 service has never seen Columbia Falls in July, doesn't understand why your revenue triples when Glacier opens, and treats a contractor's job-costing the same as a software startup's. AJM Consulting is different: you work with a local consultant who knows the tourism swings, the trades, and what it actually takes to run a small business in Northwest Montana.
Being just up Highway 2 in Kalispell means we're close enough to shake your hand and quick to pick up the phone. When you call, you get a real person who knows your business by name — not a ticket number routed to a call center.
Based in Kalispell, serving small businesses throughout the valley and all of Montana — in person locally and remotely statewide.
Free 30-minute consultation. No pressure, no commitment — just a real conversation about your Columbia Falls business and where you want to take it.