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Cheryl Holmes, Founder & CEO. Cheryl has over 30 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience in dozens of industries. In that time, she's recovered millions for clients through auditing and thorough cleanup of their books.A modern way to do books.
Modern day bookkeeping improving your bottom line: remote bookkeeping for small and medium-sized businesses, with onsite support in the Greater Phoenix Area.
Who we are. Art of Bookkeeping was founded by Cheryl Holmes, who brings more than 30 years of in-house and contract accounting and bookkeeping experience.
What we do. Tax-ready bookkeeping: customized financial statements and balance sheets, managed payroll, invoicing, and expense tracking. Balance sheets and financial statements prepared as often as you need: weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, & annual.
Where we work. Remote bookkeeping means we do your books without having to come to your office. In the Greater Phoenix area and need local support? We offer that too!
How to start. Contact us today for your free, no-obligation consultation. Learn how our remote bookkeeping solutions can work for your business.
The cost of hiring in-house
Take a full-time bookkeeper earning $35 an hour, then add benefits, office space, software, and equipment. Your business can pay $93,000 to $105,000 a year. Move the wage and the ledger re-totals.
Remote bookkeeping removes that overhead: no desk, no equipment, and no payroll for a bookkeeping department.
How we estimated thisAn employed bookkeeper, full time
$93,000 – $105,000a year · $7,750 – $8,750 a month
- Wages 2,080 hours × $35
- $72,800
- Benefits, payroll taxes, and leave Vacation, holiday, sick, healthcare, workers compensation, and retirement
- $17,000 – $26,200
- Office space and equipment Including software
- $2,000 – $4,800
- Supplies, ink, and postage
- $1,200
Estimates from our FAQ. Your figures vary with location, skill level, and time demands.
Our core services
Timely, accurate, and meticulous bookkeeping allows you to do what you do best: run your business.
Every service, in detailAccurate ledgers and the statements built on them.
General Ledger Accounting
General Ledger Accounting is the nuts and bolts to providing financial reporting. It is crucial to understand accounting when posting to the general ledger system in order to accurately present financial information. We have over 30 years of experience with bookkeeping and accounting.
Bank & Credit Card Reconciliations
Bank and Credit Card Reconciliations are an essential part of every business operation. Know at all times how much money your operation has and have confidence in the accuracy of your bank balance. This knowledge provides an important measure of internal control. We reconcile all accounts.
Financial Statements
Financial Statements present the financial condition and net income of your company. While the information on the balance sheet and profit and loss (or income) statements is most important to owners, vested parties, and managers, it is also needed at times for outside interests such as potential investors, lenders, or taxing authorities. Monthly, quarterly, and annual reports are provided.
Budgets, Planning, & Pro Formas
Budgets, Planning, & Pro Formas are the lifeline of a company. Data from purchasing, overhead expenses, sales, seasons, markets, and competition helps in developing budgets, plans, and pro formas. We can help to develop these crucial tools for your business.
Cloud Accounting Services
Cloud Accounting Services are a means to free up office space and related overhead. Outsourcing your accounting saves your business time and money on payroll and taxes, employee benefits, insurance, and, of course, office space. It frees up your checkbook to focus more on your business!
Know what you owe, what you're owed, and what's on the shelf.
Accounts Payable
Accounts Payable systems offer benefits such as knowing how much your operation owes its vendors, having the ability to pull historical and statistical reports, and having internal control. We implement or clean up and improve your existing system.
Accounts Receivable
Accounts Receivable systems offer the ability to track money owed by your client base on extended credit terms. This is an asset to an operation and should be managed closely. We implement or clean up and improve your existing system.
Purchasing
Purchasing systems include using extended vendor terms such as 30, 60, or 90 days to pay on invoices. These and offered discounts can be maximized to help with working capital and improve profit. We work with you to incorporate efficient, cost saving approaches to purchasing.
Collections
Collecting accounts receivable is important to any business. An effective procedure to keep receivables under 90 days will better ensure the collection of all receipts. We work with you to develop control on aged receivables and to develop effective collection policies and procedures.
Inventory Control
Inventory control, together with a properly implemented payable and receivable system, adds another layer of control while providing the ability to manage stock at proper levels. We implement or clean up and improve your existing system.
Job Costing
Job Costing provides costs and income directly associated with a job. This is beneficial for construction or service-based operations that extend beyond a single install or service application in the execution of the sale. These usually have many moving parts. We help to implement this system.
Pay your team on time and stay compliant.
Payroll
Payroll support provides the benefit of timely and accurate compensation to your staff, while ensuring that the reporting is in compliance with all state and federal regulations.
Employee Benefits Packages
Employee Benefits Packages attract quality personnel. Implementing employee manuals, locating and procuring quality and affordable health insurance can be time-consuming and overwhelming. We can locate, procure, and implement benefit systems.
1099 Reporting
1099 Reporting is required when using non-employee workers that meet a minimum annual compensation amount. Implementation to properly track these resources simplifies year-end reporting and reduces cost. We implement these systems and provide 1099 reporting.
Ready for your CPA, the state, and the auditor.
Sales Tax Reporting
Sales Tax Reporting is a complex area for operations required to collect, report, and remit to their state, county, and city. Proper accounting and collections help prevent loss of profit. We provide sales tax reporting.
Year-End Packaging & Tax Reporting
Year-End Packaging & Tax Reporting information is assembled, reviewed for accuracy, reconciled where needed, and presented to your CPA for year-end tax reporting. We work together with your CPA or can recommend a quality CPA to provide income tax reporting services.
Auditing
Auditing is less painful when good systems are in place. Regardless of the condition of systems, when inside management, a bank, government, or insurance agency is requiring information, we are experienced in audit processes.
Financial Management
Financial Management should cohesively bring all of the accounting processes together. Each component of your business directly impacts an operation's financial picture. Bank accounts, inventory, purchasing, and sales should all be carefully managed and reconciled regularly. Having good systems in place provides internal control. We can help set up effective systems.

Tax-ready, secure, and personal
Cloud Accounting
With paper-free bookkeeping, you can finally clear your desk of clutter. Send us your documents and receipts electronically.
Scheduled Reporting
Balance sheets and financial statements prepared as often as you need. We offer weekly, bi-weekly, monthly, quarterly, & annual reporting.
Tax-Time Support
Don't let tax season be a burden. Art of Bookkeeping provides 5-star support to all clients when it matters most: before, during, and after the crunch.
Financial Reporting
Customized financial statements and balance sheets for your business.
Payroll Services
Affordable and managed payroll services for all business sizes.
Invoicing & Expense Tracking
We help track, invoice, and manage all accounts receivable and accounts payable.
Dedicated Bookkeeper
One-on-one support with a dedicated expert bookkeeper.
Highly Experienced
Over 30 years of bookkeeping experience in dozens of industries.
Crunch-Time Support
We work with your CPA to make tax time a breeze for your business.

Meet Cheryl Holmes
Art of Bookkeeping (AOB) helps companies save money. Because affordable services with dependable, accurate delivery of accounting are always in demand, the owner, Cheryl Holmes, began providing contract services for businesses. With more than 30 years of in-house and contract accounting, she brings the experience of working in a variety of industries that include retail, construction, remodeling, income property, service, distribution, medical practices, and more.
Cheryl has over 30 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience in dozens of industries. In that time, she's recovered millions for clients through auditing and thorough cleanup of their books.
We pride ourselves on this approach. Accuracy is tested through reconciliations, the review of data, and documentation that supports balance sheet and income statement balances.
Cheryl HolmesFounder & CEO · LinkedIn
More about Art of BookkeepingIn our clients' words
I found that Cheryl's professional demeanor was only exceeded by her conscientious, diligent, and prompt presentation of all requested financial data.
Cheryl is professional, reliable, honest, trustworthy, and devoted. She's a talented and conscientious bookkeeper and I can depend on the information she presents to be on time and accurate.
Cheryl's auditing skills are exceptional. She has successfully helped me to recover a sizable amount of lost revenue through her diligent auditing.
Questions, answered
All questionsWhat is remote bookkeeping?
Remote bookkeeping (also known as virtual bookkeeping and/or cloud-based accounting) is a service by which a person or entity performs bookkeeping and/or accounting services without regard for location. In simpler terms, a company like Art of Bookkeeping is able to do your books without having to come to your office.
What are the benefits of remote bookkeeping?
Benefits include the ability to communicate with AOB at any time, any day. Documents and data can be sent to us electronically, and we send information back to you the same way. This approach also provides an affordable option to overhead related costs of office space and bookkeeping personnel.
Do I have to have my books done remotely?
In short, no. We do offer regular onsite services in the Greater Phoenix Area; however, in some circumstances, we are also available to meet in other regions for an initial face-to-face meeting. From there, we will set up remote services and then schedule subsequent face-to-face meetings as necessary. Due to added time commitments with travel, regular onsite services are only available on a case-by-case basis.
How long have you been doing this?
Cheryl Holmes has more than 30 years of accounting and bookkeeping experience, in-house and on contract, across dozens of industries.
What accounting software do you use?
We are adaptable to many accounting platforms. If your business uses software that you prefer and wish to keep, we'll work with you to keep it that way. Our customary software includes QuickBooks and Sage (Peachtree). If your office does not have the latest and greatest, we can help. Contact us to discuss the best fit for you.
What is my cost to have an employed bookkeeper or accountant?
Of course this varies depending on factors such as location, skill level, and time demands. But we did some research and have arrived at some estimates. Take a full-time, employed bookkeeper with vacation, holiday, sick, healthcare, workers compensation, and retirement benefits earning $35 per hour. Add to that the cost of office space, software and equipment. Your business can pay from $93,000 to $105,000 a year, or $7,750 to $8,750 per month for an employed bookkeeper or accountant.
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Ready to explore your options? We offer a free, no-obligation consultation.
Send Cheryl a message [email protected]
PO Box 60543, Phoenix, AZ 85082. In most cases, you'll hear from us within 48 business hours.