Auto Repair Shop Books Cleanup A month that arrived as one number
One deposit and one sales figure can be all that is left. We will not paint a split the papers do not hold.
The ceiling is the bank
Some months survive only as a bank deposit and a single sales entry someone made to match it. The tickets were never entered, or they were entered and then summarized into dust. The deposit is the ceiling. Income for that month cannot be talked into a larger number than the cash and the card batches support, and it should not be talked into a prettier mix of labor and parts than the remaining paper allows.
If a stack of tickets still exists, we can split what those tickets support and leave the rest as an unnamed remainder. The remainder gets a name, such as unsplit counter sales, and it stays visible. If the tickets are gone, the month stays a lump. A lump with an honest label is a better close than a fiction in which every oil change is suddenly 40 percent parts because that ratio felt familiar.
What we will not reconstruct
We will not call the parts house and invent invoices the shop cannot produce. We will not use another month's mix as a template for this one. A later month that does have tickets can be split properly, and the lumpy month can sit beside it as lumpy. The return then describes a year that includes one blunt month, which is what happened, rather than a year of smooth margins that nobody can defend.
Tax collected is still not income, even inside a lump. If the deposit included tax and the filing already sent that tax on, the lump has to shrink by the amount that was remitted. We need the filing or the ticket stubs to know the amount. Without them, we do not subtract a guess.
Start with the worst month
Bring the deposit and whatever paper remains. We will say whether a split is supported or whether the month should stay labeled as a lump. That answer is the cleanup. It is not a failure to give it.
Send the one deposit
You will be talking to the Steven Palmieri practice.