Clean, current books for businesses in Missoula, Bozeman, Billings, Helena, Great Falls — and every small town in between. Fully remote through QuickBooks Online, handled by a real Montana bookkeeper in your time zone, not a national call center.
Your bank feeds, your receipts, and your QuickBooks file are already digital. The only question is who's watching them — and whether that person knows Montana. AJM Consulting delivers full-service bookkeeping to small businesses across the entire state, remotely, from right here in Montana.
Here's how it actually works, step by step. We start with a free 30-minute consultation — a real conversation about your business, your accounts, and what's been slipping through the cracks. From that call we scope the work and quote you a flat monthly fee, so there's no mystery about price. Then we connect to your bank and credit card accounts through QuickBooks Online's secure, read-only bank feeds. That connection lets us see transactions so we can categorize and reconcile them; it does not let anyone touch your money. You share receipts, statements, and loan documents digitally — snap a photo, upload a file, done. No envelopes, no drop-offs, no shoebox in your truck.
Each month we run a full close: every account reconciled, every transaction categorized, discrepancies chased down instead of shrugged at. Then — and this is the part most services skip — we walk you through your reports on a phone or video call in plain language. What the profit and loss is telling you, where cash is going, what changed since last month. And you always reach the same person. The founder who scoped your books is the one doing your books, every month. No ticket numbers, no rotating cast of strangers.
Every transaction categorized correctly and consistently, month in and month out, so your books stay current instead of becoming a spring project.
Every bank, credit card, and loan account reconciled monthly so your QuickBooks balance matches reality — to the penny.
Bills tracked and paid on time, invoices sent and followed up, so vendors stay happy and customers actually pay you.
P&L, balance sheet, and cash-flow reports delivered monthly and explained over a call in language you can act on.
QuickBooks Online set up right for how your business actually runs — or straightened out if it's drifted into chaos.
Months or years behind? We'll reconstruct the record, reconcile the backlog, and hand you clean books with a process to keep them that way.
It fits almost everyone. A contractor in Missoula who's on job sites all day and does paperwork at 9 p.m. A restaurant in Bozeman juggling POS deposits, tips, and thin margins. A landlord in Billings, a consultant in Helena, a shop owner in Great Falls, a service business in Butte — and every business in a town too small to have its own bookkeeper. It's an especially good fit for out-of-state owners of Montana businesses and rentals: if you live in Seattle or Phoenix and own a vacation rental near Glacier or a rental property in the Gallatin Valley, you get a bookkeeper who's physically in Montana and understands what you own here.
And a word on security, because it's the first question smart owners ask: the bank connections are bank-level encrypted and strictly read-only. We can see and categorize transactions; we cannot move money. Documents travel through secure channels, not paper envelopes mailed across the state. Honestly, it's tighter than the old way of handing a folder of statements across a desk.
Plenty of national bookkeeping apps and offshore services will take your money. What they won't do is know Montana. They'll ask why you aren't filing sales tax returns — because they don't know Montana has no general statewide sales tax. They won't know that short-term stays carry statewide lodging taxes, that tourism towns like Whitefish and Big Sky layer a local resort tax on top, or that those lodging filings run through the Montana Department of Revenue. They won't understand why a Gardiner outfitter's revenue looks like a heartbeat monitor — huge in July, flat in November — because they've never seen a seasonal tourism economy up close.
We have. We're based in Kalispell, we live on Mountain Time, and our founder spent years running construction and roofing crews before he ever opened a set of books for someone else. When you call, a real person answers — the same person who does your books — during your business hours, not on a call-center schedule three time zones away. Remote, yes. Anonymous, never.
Remote works statewide, but if you're in the Flathead Valley we're happy to sit down face to face — we're based right here in Kalispell.
Free 30-minute consultation. No pressure, no commitment — just a real conversation about your Montana business and what clean, current books would change for you.