From downtown Dayton and the Wright-Patterson corridor to Kettering, Centerville, and Huber Heights — Tides Bookkeeping handles the books for small businesses across every corner of Montgomery County. 100% remote. Clean books every month.
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Montgomery County is the heart of the Dayton region and the birthplace of aviation, where the Wright brothers built and flew the first airplane. Today it blends a powerhouse aerospace-and-defense economy with advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and a resurgent downtown.
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base — the region's single largest employer — anchors a dense cluster of aerospace, defense, and research contractors, while Premier Health and the University of Dayton round out the base. For local firms, Dayton's self-administered income tax and the surrounding suburban levies make clean, location-aware books essential.
Whether your business is headquartered in Dayton or operating out of a smaller community, we serve the entire county with the same level of service.
The county seat and Birthplace of Aviation — the Wright-Patterson corridor, University of Dayton, Premier Health, and the revitalized Dayton Arcade tech district.
A large, prosperous southern suburb — medical practices, professional services, and a deep base of family-owned small businesses.
A fast-growing northeast community near Wright-Patterson — contractors, retail, and service firms serving the base economy.
Affluent south-county communities with strong retail, healthcare, and professional-services corridors along SR-48.
Southern Miami River communities with a strong manufacturing, distribution, and research heritage near the Austin interchange.
Also serving Vandalia, Englewood, Oakwood, Riverside, and every community across Montgomery County.
Serving Montgomery County means knowing it. From Dayton to the communities across the county — here's the local context that shapes how businesses operate in Southwest Ohio.
Montgomery County is where flight was born. Wilbur and Orville Wright ran their bicycle shop in Dayton and did the engineering that led to the first powered flight in 1903 — and the region has been synonymous with aviation ever since. That legacy became institutional with the growth of what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.
Dayton was also a great American invention town — home to the cash register (NCR), the electric self-starter, and countless patents per capita. Advanced manufacturing and research have long been the region's economic DNA, feeding a broad supplier and contractor base.
Today Wright-Patterson AFB anchors an aerospace-and-defense economy that ripples through thousands of local contractors, while Premier Health and the University of Dayton drive healthcare and research. Small businesses across Kettering, Centerville, and Huber Heights work within Dayton's income tax and the county's suburban municipal levies.
Seven core services, all delivered remotely. Everything your Montgomery County business needs to stay financially clean and tax-ready year-round.
Our flagship service. Every transaction categorized, every account reconciled, and clean financial reports delivered to your inbox each month — without you lifting a finger. The financial foundation every Montgomery County business deserves.
Behind on your books? We clean up any backlog — whether it's 3 months or 3 years — so you can move forward with accurate, up-to-date records.
New business or inherited a mess? We configure QuickBooks, connect your accounts, and build a chart of accounts that actually makes sense for your industry.
Monthly reconciliation of every bank account and credit card — ensuring your books match your statements and no transactions fall through the cracks.
P&L statements, balance sheets, and cash flow reports delivered monthly in a format you can actually understand and act on.
We keep your AP and AR organized so you always know what's coming in, what's going out, and what's overdue.
We make sure your payroll expenses hit your books correctly and stay in sync with your payroll processor every pay period.
From Southwest Ohio manufacturers to Main Street restaurants and real estate investors — we understand the financial patterns of the industries that drive Montgomery County's economy.
Contract cost tracking, compliance-ready records, and payroll
Supplier payments, raw material costs, and production expense tracking
Insurance billing coordination, payroll, and practice management
Job costing, subcontractors, material expenses, and seasonal cash flow
Recurring revenue, product spend, and investor-ready reporting
COGS, tip payroll, inventory management, and vendor reconciliation
Agent commissions, rental income, property expenses, and investor portfolios
Consultants, attorneys, agencies — clean monthly financials
"We're a small engineering firm that does subcontract work tied to Wright-Patterson, and clean books are non-negotiable for the contracts we chase. Tides organized everything, tracks our job costs, and keeps the Dayton city tax straight. It's made us look far more buttoned-up to primes."
Yes — we serve businesses across the entire county, including Dayton, Kettering, Huber Heights, Centerville, Miamisburg, Trotwood, Vandalia, and every surrounding community. Because we're 100% remote, your exact location in the county doesn't matter.
This is one of the biggest bookkeeping headaches in Ohio. Businesses have to withhold local income tax for every municipality where their employees actually work, then file net-profit returns on top of that. Dayton collects its own municipal income tax directly, while many Montgomery County suburbs file through RITA or their own city systems. We keep your payroll and location data clean so those municipal withholdings and returns tie out correctly, and for growing firms we track gross receipts against Ohio's Commercial Activity Tax (CAT) threshold so nothing sneaks up on you at year-end. We keep everything organized and tax-ready for whoever files your returns.
No. If you don't have QuickBooks Online, we can set it up as part of your onboarding. If you already have an account, we'll connect to it and clean it up as needed. We also connect Puzzle.io for real-time dashboards and an instant snapshot of your books before beginning regular monthly service.
Pricing is based on your monthly transaction volume. Most small businesses fall between $395–$895/month. We provide an exact quote during your free consultation — no guesswork.
Most Montgomery County businesses are fully onboarded within 5–7 business days. We schedule a kickoff call, connect your accounts, review your chart of accounts, and begin work right away.
We make switching easy. We can work directly with your previous bookkeeper to transition files and access, review existing books for accuracy, and pick up right where they left off — or clean things up if needed.
Montgomery County is a core market, but we serve small businesses across Southwest Ohio and all of Ohio.
Beavercreek · Xenia · Fairborn
Troy · Piqua · Tipp City
Springboro · Mason · Lebanon
Springfield · New Carlisle
Schedule a free 15-minute consultation. Tell us about your business and we'll give you a clear picture of where your books stand and what it will cost to fix it.
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Official government resources for registering, filing, and staying compliant. Tides handles your books; these help with the rest.