SDO CPA LLC
18 years of experience
Bobby Huang is a partner at SDO CPA. 18 years of hands-on bookkeeping. He still reconciles real client books and built Growthy from the same review-and-approve work bookkeepers do each week.
Software is taking routine transaction coding. Here is what stays yours, plus four moves and two copyable documents to AI-proof your bookkeeping practice.
Best AI agents for accounting firms 2026, sorted by the job each does on the books: what it writes, who approves it, and a six-point checklist to copy.
A topside entry adjusts the statements or consolidation, not the ledger. See a balanced elimination example, a late accrual, and the controls reviewers check.
A true-up replaces an estimate with the actual amount once it's known. Meaning, 3 worked journal entries with debits and credits, and how to document one.
Tick and tie means tracing each figure on a schedule to its source and marking it. See a worked bank rec, an $18 transposition, and a tick-mark legend.
A copy-paste bookkeeping client onboarding checklist in five phases, from signed scope to first close, plus a document-request email and a 30-day example.
The QuickBooks Online reconcile routine, step by step. Plus a copy-paste month-end checklist and a worked example that traces a stuck difference to zero.
Claude Code, Claude (formerly Cowork), the ChatGPT app with Codex, and Codex CLI, scored for bookkeeping work as of September 2026. Plus setup steps.
An unapplied payment is cash QBO recorded but never matched to an invoice, so AR and revenue both misstate. Find it, apply it, re-run the report.
The aging date is the as-of date an AR or AP report ages every balance against, not the report date or the due date.
A review queue holds only the fed transactions the software is not sure about, not every one like QBO's For Review tab. Where the 85% ceiling comes from.
A close checklist is the fixed, ordered list of tasks that ends a bookkeeping period. See why order matters and where the full checklists live.
See Growthy on a sample book. Read-only bank access.
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