Most business owners are great at what they do. The books? That’s a different story.
I know because I lived it!
My name is Richard Pales. I spent nearly 20 years in restaurant equipment repair — keeping kitchens running so restaurants could keep their doors open. The whole time I was running that business I was also doing my own books. Not because I loved it. Because it had to get done.
Then COVID hit. The business I had spent two decades building collapsed almost overnight. I needed a new direction. When I looked at what I actually knew how to do — beyond fixing equipment — it was finances. I understood cash flow, reconciliation, profit and loss. I understood what it meant to run a business and not know if you were actually making money until it was too late.
That gap is what COGS Bookkeeping was built to close.
Before I ever picked up a wrench I trained to repair and maintain aircraft. September 11, 2001 ended that career before it started. I rebuilt once. I rebuilt again after COVID. Both times the lesson was the same — the businesses that survive are the ones that know their numbers.
Most small business owners don’t. Not because they don’t care. Because nobody taught them it mattered until they needed a loan and got rejected. Until tax season hit and their CPA handed them a bill for cleaning up a year of chaos. Until they looked at their bank account and couldn’t explain where the money went.
That’s exactly what COGS fixes.
Clean books every month. Plain English reports every month. Financials that open doors instead of closing them — whether that door is an SBA loan, a line of credit, or simply knowing if your business is profitable.
I got my QuickBooks certification and built COGS Bookkeeping LLC with one mission: to give small business owners the financial visibility they need to make confident decisions and grow.
You built your business to create something. Let COGS handle the books so you can get back to building it.
Reach out today for a free consultation. No obligation. No pressure. Just a conversation about what clean books can do for your bottom line.