About the Office · Est. Avon, Mass.
A bookkeeping office that keeps your records the way an older trade kept its books.
We close the month, tie the bank to the cent, and run payroll for small service firms across Avon, Massachusetts — on fixed engagements, with every figure accounted for.
How the firm came to be
Tally & Twine began the way most ledgers do — with a small business owner who could do the work but not the books. One contractor in Avon, a shoebox of receipts, and a payroll deadline that would not wait.
What the firm offered then is what it offers now: the books closed on a fixed calendar, the bank reconciled to the cent, and payroll run without a missed filing. No hourly meter, no scramble at year-end, no figure the owner could not explain to their own CPA.
We stayed deliberately small and deliberately local. The office works with one to roughly twenty-five on payroll — contractors, salons, design studios, clinics, and trades whose month is measured in invoices and timesheets rather than inventory. Enough of them to know the work cold; few enough that every set of books is kept by a person who knows the business behind it.
The name is plain for a reason. A tally is the count; the twine is what binds the record together and keeps it in order. That is the whole of the job, and we do not pretend it is more.
What the office holds to
The retainer is set in writing before the first entry is posted — against your transaction volume and headcount, never against our clock. You know the cost of the year before the year begins.
A profit-and-loss statement and balance sheet you can actually read, with a short written note on anything worth your attention. Figures are no use if the owner cannot follow them.
Monday through Friday, eight to seven, questions are answered within one business day — and payroll queries dated before a run are answered the same day, every time.
Entries in the firm's own book
How the practice took its present shape — stated plainly, the way we would enter it ourselves.
The office opened keeping a single set of trade books by hand, closed on the calendar rather than the afternoon. The habit of a dated close has not changed since.
As client firms took on staff, the office added full-cycle payroll — timesheet to net pay to the quarterly return — so a growing business kept one office for both ledger and payday.
QuickBooks Online, Xero, and Gusto replaced the ruled pages. The discipline carried over intact: reconciled to zero, variances explained, nothing left to the memory.
The firm settled on flat monthly retainers and a client list it can serve by name — small service businesses across Avon and the towns beside it, each set of books kept by someone who knows the work behind it.
The people behind the ledger
Your books are not passed around a queue. Each engagement is assigned to a bookkeeper who learns the shape of your business — your vendors, your pay runs, the figures you watch — and stays with it.
You reach a person who already knows your account, not a support line reading it cold. That continuity is why a reconciliation that would stall elsewhere gets chased to its source here.
Engagements & pricing
One flat monthly retainer per engagement, agreed in writing. Choose the column that fits the firm you run — the figure does not move with our hours.
Larger headcounts and multi-entity books are quoted on review — the office will tell you the figure before you commit to it.
Monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation for the owner who runs lean and wants the books simply correct.
The full monthly close with payroll folded in — for firms that carry a team and want one office for both.
The complete office for a growing service firm — payroll without a cap and the books reviewed by the quarter.
