From the vacation-rental corridor and beach businesses along South Kihei Road to the companies at the Maui Research & Technology Park, Kīhei's small businesses drive South Maui's tourism economy. Tides clears the entire backlog, reconciles every account, and untangles your back General Excise Tax — so owners across Maui can get clean, tax-ready financials and move forward without dread.
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Kīhei is South Maui's sunny tourism corridor, lined with condos and vacation rentals, small businesses, and the nearby Maui Research & Technology Park, with the Wailea and Mākena resorts just south — and when growth outpaces the books, owners end up months or years behind — often with GET periods left unfiled. Here's how catch-up bookkeeping fits the businesses driving the Maui County economy.
Kīhei — anchored by the condos, restaurants, and beach businesses along South Kihei Road, the tech tenants at the Maui Research & Technology Park, and the resort corridor toward Wailea and Mākena — is South Maui's business hub. The vacation-rental managers, restaurants, tour operators, and retailers that fill it run on thin margins, heavy seasonal transaction volume, and about 4% GET on nearly every dollar of gross income — exactly the kind of business where a year of unreconciled accounts and unfiled GET periods turns tax season into a crisis.
Kīhei's economy runs on tourism and vacation rentals, where owners often juggle multiple properties and transient-accommodation obligations alongside GET. The property managers, hospitality operators, professional-services firms, and trades here often need months or years of multi-account activity and back GET periods reconstructed and reconciled before a CPA will touch the file.
And then there's real estate and the trades. From Kīhei along Pi'ilani Highway (Highway 31) and Mokulele Highway out to Wailea, Mākena, and Kahului, South Maui keeps contractors, real estate teams, and home-service businesses too busy to keep up with the books. Tides goes back as far as needed, reconciles every account, untangles your back GET, and hands you a clean, CPA-ready package — fully remote. Want the full local picture? See our Kīhei bookkeeping services page.
Catch-up bookkeeping isn't just data entry. It's a systematic process that touches every account, every period, and every inconsistency — so your books are accurate when we're done.
Every transaction across every period is reviewed, categorized, and assigned to the correct account. We use your actual business activity to determine categories — not guesses.
Every bank account, credit card, and loan account is reconciled against statements for every month in the catch-up period. Every discrepancy is identified and resolved.
Duplicate accounts, miscategorized items, and structural problems in your QuickBooks are fixed. You get a clean, logical account structure going forward.
Once catch-up is complete, we deliver profit and loss statements for each year or period covered — so you have a real financial history, not a black hole.
Here's exactly what happens from your first call to completed work.
We review your current books, identify the scope of the backlog, and give you a flat project quote. No hourly billing — you know the price before we start.
You grant us access to QuickBooks Online and your bank statements. We handle everything from there — no need to export data or send spreadsheets.
We work backward through each period, reconciling accounts and categorizing transactions. We flag anything that needs your input, but the bulk of the work happens without you.
We walk you through the completed books, deliver your financial reports, and either hand off to your CPA or begin your monthly service cycle.
Whether you've never had a bookkeeper or your last one left things in chaos, catch-up bookkeeping gets you back to solid ground.
You've been running your business for a year or more and have never properly reconciled your books. Tax season is coming and you have no accurate financials.
Your previous bookkeeper left, passed away, or did the work incorrectly. You've inherited a mess and don't know where to start.
It's Q1 and your books are 12 months behind. Your CPA is waiting. You need the year cleaned up fast so you can file on time without penalties.
Most business owners know their books are behind. What they underestimate is what that actually costs them in time, money, and missed opportunities.
When your accountant has to reconcile 12 months of transactions to file your taxes, they charge accordingly — often hundreds or thousands in extra fees that clean books would have eliminated.
Transactions that aren't categorized correctly don't show up as deductions. Behind books mean you're likely overpaying on taxes every year.
Without accurate records, you can't know if your business is truly profitable. Decisions about hiring, pricing, and growth are made on gut instinct instead of facts.
Spending January and February tracking down receipts, matching bank statements, and reconstructing a year of activity costs dozens of hours you'll never get back.
For a limited time, catch-up bookkeeping is 50% off our regular rate. Flat per-month pricing at the same tier as your ongoing plan — quoted upfront, no hourly billing, no surprises. (Example: 6 months behind on Growth = 6 × $325 = $1,950, normally $3,900.)
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"Dan is crucial to the financial management of my business. He helped me beyond simply bookkeeping — resourceful, detail oriented, and most importantly responsive and fast."
Behind on your books? Every industry has different income streams, expense categories, and tax considerations — and we know all of them. We've cleaned up backlogs for contractors, restaurants, real estate agents, and more.
Commission backlogs, rental income gaps, property expense catch-up.
Job cost catch-up, subcontractor 1099s, equipment expense sorting.
Daily sales reconciliation, vendor AP, tip payroll catch-up.
Insurance reimbursement catch-up, patient billing reconciliation.
Retainer income, project billing, and expense catch-up.
Platform fee reconciliation, inventory, and COGS catch-up.
Runway reconstruction, MRR reconciliation, investor-ready clean-up.
Recurring revenue, expense categories, and payroll catch-up.
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