Bookkeeping for Echo Park Small Businesses
Bookkeeping, payroll, and sales tax for Echo Park restaurants, studios, and shops. Pasadena-based, remote-friendly, transparent pricing.
Bookkeeping for Echo Park
A Squared Bookkeepers is a Pasadena-based bookkeeping practice serving small businesses across Echo Park and the rest of central-east LA. Monthly bookkeeping, payroll, catch-up work, and sales tax filing for the restaurants, studios, and shops packed along Sunset Boulevard and the side streets around the lake.
Echo Park is one of the densest small-business neighborhoods in the city. Record labels, photographers, design studios, coffee shops, wine bars, boutiques, and tattoo studios all share the same few blocks. Most of them are too big to handle the books on a laptop after hours and too lean to justify a full-time accountant. That’s the gap we fill.
Monthly Bookkeeping
Monthly Bookkeeping
Transactions categorized, bank and card accounts reconciled, books closed each month. You get a clean P&L and balance sheet you can actually read, on a schedule you can count on.
Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Catch-Up Bookkeeping
Behind six months, a year, longer? We reconstruct what’s there, fix what’s wrong, and deliver current books. Most of our Echo Park clients came in exactly this way.
California Sales Tax
California Sales Tax
Sales tax management for restaurants, cafes, and retail along Sunset and Echo Park Avenue. We track the rates, hit the filing deadlines, and keep you out of penalty territory with the CDTFA.
Payroll
Payroll
Full-service payroll with tax deposits, quarterly filings, and year-end forms. Whether you run a two-person studio or a 15-person kitchen, your team gets paid on time and the filings are handled.
Echo Park Businesses We Work With
The businesses in Echo Park are as varied as the foot traffic on Sunset. A coffee shop doing 400 transactions a day has nothing in common with a photographer invoicing three clients a month, except that both need accurate books and neither wants to do them. We work with both ends of that spectrum and most of what falls in between.
Our clients are typically doing $100K to a few million in revenue. Established enough to need real bookkeeping, small enough that bringing someone in-house doesn’t pencil out. We handle the back office so you can focus on the work that actually shows up on the menu, in the gallery, or in the portfolio.
Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars
Restaurants, Cafes, and Bars
The food and drink scene along Sunset and Echo Park Avenue keeps growing. We handle daily sales reconciliation, tip reporting, vendor payments, and the monthly sales tax filings that come with food service.
Creative Studios and Agencies
Creative Studios and Agencies
Photographers, designers, video production, music, and small agencies. We track project income, separate reimbursable expenses, and keep the books in shape for clean year-end filing with your CPA.
Real Estate Investors and Flippers
Real Estate Investors and Flippers
Echo Park has been one of the most active flip and small-multifamily markets in LA for years. We provide bookkeeping for rental owners and fix-and-flip operators, tracking costs by property and keeping entity books clean for tax time.
Retail and Service Shops
Retail and Service Shops
Boutiques, tattoo studios, salons, record stores, and the independent shops that give the neighborhood its character. We handle the sales tax, inventory basics, and monthly close so you can run the shop instead of the spreadsheet.
Common Questions
Do you work with businesses in Echo Park?
Yes. We're based in Old Town Pasadena and serve businesses throughout Echo Park and the wider LA area. Most of our work happens remotely, so a storefront on Sunset or a studio off Echo Park Avenue is just as easy to support as a client next door.
What does monthly bookkeeping cost?
Monthly bookkeeping starts at $199. Your rate depends on expense volume and complexity. We quote a flat monthly number after a short intake call so there are no surprises.
Can you handle California sales tax for my restaurant or shop?
Yes. We calculate, file, and submit California sales tax on schedule. Restaurants, cafes, and retail along Sunset and Echo Park Avenue deal with this every month, and we keep filings clean and on time.
My books are months or years behind. Can you help?
That's a common starting point, especially for creative founders and restaurant owners who got busy running the business. We do the catch-up work first, then roll you into monthly service so it doesn't happen again.
Do you handle payroll?
Yes. We run payroll each pay period, handle tax deposits and quarterly filings, and issue year-end W-2s and 1099s. You approve hours, we take care of the rest.
Pasadena's Small Business Bookkeeper
The Next Step:
A 15-Minute Call
Tell us where your books stand today. We'll ask a few questions, share how we can help, and give you a clear quote.
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