Bookkeeping for small businesses, contractors, truckers, plumbers, and landscapers in Wheeling and the Upper Ohio Valley.
Local Context · 01
Wheeling contractors and truckers are running busy operations with no visibility into which jobs or routes are profitable. Without job costing, every project looks the same on the books.
IFTA gets set up wrong or skipped entirely. Fuel costs get miscategorized. The result is overpaid taxes, potential penalties, and a P&L that doesn't reflect the real cost of running a fleet.
Most Upper Ohio Valley trades businesses hand their bookkeeper a box of receipts once a year. Every major call — hiring, equipment, bigger subcontracts — gets made without a current number to support it.
Services · 02
Both start with getting your QuickBooks right.
Monthly bookkeeping, CFO advisory, and ongoing support — so you never have to think about it again.
We clan up your books, train your admin, and leave behind a guide — so your team can handle it going forward.
What that actually looks like. Cleanup. Monthly close. The leave-behind playbook. Three things we do every day for trades businesses across Ohio & West Virginia.
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We go into your existing file, clean it up, and make it right. No blowing it up. No losing your history.
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We keep your books clean every month and actually talk to you about what the numbers mean. No surprise reports you don't understand.
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We train whoever handles your books, show them the right way to do it, and leave behind a written guide they can use every day.
The Transformation · 04
You know which jobs and routes are making you money. IFTA is handled correctly and your fuel costs are right. When a Wheeling-area lender or bonding company asks for your financials, you hand them over without flinching.
Job costing by project and route means every Upper Ohio Valley contract tells you the truth. Stop running blind across Ohio County.
Fuel costs categorized correctly. IFTA tracked and filed right. Your books reflect the real cost of running your operation — not more.
Monthly close means you're never caught off guard. Bigger subcontracts, equipment financing, adding a truck — every call backed by real numbers.
Next Steps · 05
We spend about an hour in your books. We tell you exactly what we find. No charge, no obligation.
Based on what we find, we put together a proposal — either we take over the books or we train your team. Whichever makes more sense for your business.
Cleanup first, every time. Then monthly bookkeeping or team training — whichever track you chose. No surprises.
Start with a free QuickBooks Review and find out exactly what your books are telling you.
We'll be straight with you — we wrote this section so Google shows this page when Wheeling small businesses search for a bookkeeper.
If you're searching for a bookkeeper in Wheeling, West Virginia, you're in the right place. 740 Accounting & Bookkeeping specializes in bookkeeping and business advisory for both small businesses and trades — contractors, truckers, plumbers, landscapers, and remodelers — across the Wheeling area and the broader Ohio Valley.
Small businesses in the Wheeling area are running QuickBooks — but most were never set up correctly for their industry. Wrong categories, no job costing, IFTA tracking that's either missing or wrong. Our QuickBooks Cleanup service goes into the file you already have and fixes the foundation. No starting over. No lost history.
From there, we either take over the books through our monthly bookkeeping service or clean everything up and train your existing team through our employee training service. It always starts with a free QuickBooks review — about an hour, no charge, no obligation.
We serve small businesses in Wheeling and throughout the area — including Weirton, Moundsville, St. Clairsville, and communities across Ohio County and the northern West Virginia panhandle. In-person when you need it. Virtual when that works better.
We're not a national remote service and we're not a generalist CPA firm. We specialize in small businesses — and our owner Kristal Hunkler ran one for over 20 years. She knows what IFTA compliance means for a trucking operation, what job costing looks like for a Wheeling-area contractor, and what it takes to get books clean enough to hold up under a lender's review.
Searching for "bookkeeper Wheeling WV," "QuickBooks bookkeeper Wheeling West Virginia," or "accounting for contractors Wheeling WV"? We've been serving Ohio and West Virginia since 2011. Start with a free QuickBooks review — no sales pitch, just an honest look at what's there.