Built for owner-operators
We work with small businesses where owners answer the phone. Engagements are scoped honestly, priced in fixed fees, and right-sized for businesses that don't need (or can't yet justify) a full finance department.
Local Veteran-Owned & Operated
Cloud accounting · Abingdon, VA
Back-Offices
Back-Offices
Built in the Cloud.
Ridgeview Ledger Co helps small businesses turn the back-office into a quiet system — clean books, automated workflows, and reporting that matches how the business actually runs. We build it, run it, and document it, so owners spend their time on the business instead of chasing receipts.
End-to-End
Back-Office Solutions
We design the accounting system, automate the workflows, run the books, and prepare the return. One connected stack, one fixed-fee engagement at a time.
Systems before books
We design the accounting information system before we touch the books. Clean inputs, automated flows, and reporting that matches how you actually run the company — so the back-office stays quiet after we hand it back.
Scoped and priced up front
Engagements are scoped, priced, and put in writing before work begins. You'll know exactly what we'll deliver, what it costs, and the timeline — agreed in an engagement letter before we touch a thing.
Local roots, national reach
Headquartered in Abingdon, VA. We meet clients in person from Kingsport to Abingdon and travel the corridor between Knoxville and Roanoke. Remote delivery for organizations anywhere in the U.S.
Six engagements, one connected stack.
Most clients start with a system assessment, then choose where to begin. Each engagement is fixed-fee where possible, scoped in writing, and designed to plug into the rest of the stack.
Service · 01
QuickBooks setups & clean-ups
Whether the file is brand-new or eighteen months of unreconciled receipts, we get the books into clean, reportable shape. Setups and clean-ups are designed by a Certified Advanced QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor.
What's included
- Net-new QuickBooks Online setups — chart of accounts, classes, locations, products & services, sales tax, bank feeds
- Clean-ups of existing files — duplicate transactions, miscoded entries, unreconciled balances, prior-period adjustments
- Catch-up bookkeeping by month or by year, with reconciled tie-outs at every step
- Bank, credit-card, and merchant-feed configuration with a working rules engine
- Permission, role, and audit-trail setup so the file stays clean after we hand it back
Service · 02
Accounting system migration
Move from desktop, spreadsheets, or a different cloud platform onto a modern accounting platform without losing history or breaking reports. We standardize on QuickBooks Online and migrate cleanly to it.
What's included
- Pre-migration data audit and clean-up plan
- Historical transaction conversion with reconciled tie-outs
- Opening-balance verification and lock-down of prior periods
- Parallel-run validation before cutover
- Post-migration training tailored to your team
Service · 03
Workflow automation
Replace manual data entry, chase-emails, and spreadsheet hand-offs with connected workflows across your accounting stack. Payroll workflows are implemented by a certified payroll specialist.
What's included
- AP automation (Bill.com, Melio, Ramp, BILL Spend & Expense)
- Receipt capture and expense coding (Dext, Hubdoc, Keeper)
- Payroll, time, and contractor workflows — implemented by a practitioner Intuit Certified in QuickBooks Payroll
- Approval routing and document retention
- Custom integrations via Zapier or Make where appropriate
Service · 04
Back-Office Partner
Day-to-day accounting performed by a contracted, non-CPA accountant — Intuit Certified Bookkeeping Professional — so owners and operators get back to the business. Monthly, weekly, or daily cadences available.
What's included
- Bank, credit-card, and loan reconciliations
- AP and AR cycles with documented controls
- Month-end close with a tie-out workpaper package
- Management-ready reporting (P&L, balance sheet, KPI dashboards)
- CPA hand-off package at year-end so your tax preparer has what they need
Service · 05
Income-tax return preparation & e-file
We prepare and electronically file federal and state income-tax returns. We are not Enrolled Agents and do not provide IRS representation. Returns are filed under our active IRS EFIN and PTIN.
What's included
- Federal and state return preparation (1040, 1065, 1120-S, 1120 — scope confirmed in engagement)
- Books-to-return tie-out — we tie our own bookkeeping to the return so nothing is left to chase
- Electronic filing under our active IRS EFIN and PTIN
- Year-end planning conversations to flag avoidable surprises
- Coordination with your CPA, EA, or tax attorney when a return needs services we do not provide
Service · 06
App-stack integrations
Choose the right tools and wire them together — POS, e-commerce, CRM, payroll, payments, and reporting — anchored on the platform we standardize on.
What's included
- Stack assessment and recommendation
- Vendor evaluation and total-cost analysis
- Implementation, mapping, and reconciliation testing
- Documentation of the as-built system for your team
- Quarterly stack reviews to keep the system aligned with the business
Specialties grounded in the regional economy.
We work best with small businesses in the industries that built — and still drive — the corridor we call home. We are not generalists; the more your operation looks like the list below, the more leverage we bring on day one.
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Agriculture
Family farms, row-crop and livestock operations, agritourism, ag-services. Cash- and accrual-method aware, with seasonality built into reporting.
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Food service
Restaurants, food trucks, caterers, and ghost kitchens. POS-to-books reconciliation, prime-cost reporting, and labor-percentage discipline.
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Forestry & timber
Timber harvesters, sawmills, and forest-management operations. Stumpage, contract-cut, and inventory-tracking discipline tied to financial reporting.
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Hospitality
Hotels, inns, short-term rentals, and event venues. Daily-revenue reconciliations, occupancy-aware reporting, and a clean line between operating and owner activity.
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Logistics & transportation
Owner-operator trucking, regional freight, and warehousing. Per-load and per-mile reporting, IFTA-friendly bookkeeping, and equipment-life tracking.
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Manufacturing
Job-shop and small-batch manufacturers. Inventory, WIP, COGS, and standard-vs-actual reporting that owners can actually use on the shop floor.
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Mining & extraction
Quarry, aggregate, and small-scale extraction operations. Equipment depreciation, royalty, and reclamation tracking inside a clean monthly close.
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Real-estate development
Small developers, builders, and rental operators. Project, property, and entity-level reporting that holds up to lender and partner scrutiny.
Don't see your industry? Reach out anyway. If we're not a fit, we'll tell you so on the discovery call and point you toward someone who is.
Scope of services
Every engagement scoped, priced, and in writing.
Each engagement starts with a written scope of services and a fixed fee where the work allows. Deliverables, timeline, and responsibilities are defined up front, in an engagement letter, before any paid work begins.
Five steps, no surprises.
01
Discovery
A 30-minute conversation about how the business runs today, where the friction is, and what good looks like 90 days out. No charge, no obligation.
02
System assessment
We review your current accounting file, app stack, and close process. You get a written assessment with prioritized recommendations and an investment range — yours to keep regardless of next steps.
03
Build
We design the chart of accounts, configure QuickBooks Online, connect the app stack, and document the as-built system. Migrations include a parallel-run period before cutover.
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Operate
Optional ongoing back-office services — reconciliations, AP/AR, month-end close, management reporting — performed by contracted non-CPA accountants on a fixed monthly fee.
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Review
Quarterly business reviews to revisit the system, the stack, and the reporting against the goals we set in discovery. Adjust as the business changes.
Get started
A 30-minute call. A clearer system on the other side.
Tell us about the business and where the friction is. We'll tell you whether we're the right fit — and what we'd do first.