Accounting built for Brookings farmers and business owners
Fixed-fee accounting for Brookings farmers and business owners, with anytime access and no surprise bills
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TruCount CPA PC provides fixed-fee accounting services in Brookings, SD for farmers, agribusiness operators, and professional service businesses, covering transaction classification, expense tracking, and monthly reconciliation. Clients access their numbers anytime through a secure online platform, backed by a team with 51 combined years of accounting experience since 2009.
You didn't start your operation to spend evenings matching receipts to bank statements. Between planting windows, herd schedules, or a full client calendar, accounting is the task that gets pushed to "later" until later becomes a scramble every March. For professional service businesses, it's the same story: a booked schedule that leaves no room to chase down last month's transactions or figure out why the numbers don't match. TruCount CPA PC handles the day-to-day recordkeeping for farmers, agribusiness operators, and professional service businesses across the Brookings, SD area and throughout the Midwest, so the numbers are accurate and current without you touching a spreadsheet.
This isn't a one-off data-entry service. Accounting at TruCount feeds directly into tax planning and business decisions throughout the year, for one fixed monthly fee. No billing surprises, no guessing where your business stands. Just clean books and time back for the work only you can do.
What our accounting service covers
Good accounting is more than data entry. It's the foundation that makes tax season painless and business decisions confident. Here's what's included every month:
Transaction classification, so every deposit and expense lands in the right account
Expense tracking tied to categories that matter at tax time, not generic buckets
Monthly account reconciliation across your bank, credit card, and loan accounts
Clean, accurate financial statements you can hand to a lender or read yourself
Revenue and expense tracking segmented by service line or department, useful for professional service businesses tracking profitability across multiple offerings
Ongoing coordination with our tax planning and outsourced accounting teams, so your books and your strategy never disconnect
Accounting designed around agriculture and agribusiness cycles
Generic accounting software doesn't know the difference between a fertilizer prepay and a routine operating expense, or that a grain sale in January might belong to last year's crop. Farm income doesn't arrive on a tidy monthly schedule, and neither do the input costs, equipment purchases, or land payments that come with it.
We've worked with farmers and agribusiness operators across the Midwest long enough to build our processes around how ag actually operates: seasonal income timing, equipment depreciation schedules, and multi-entity structures where a farm operation and a separate equipment or trucking entity need to stay untangled on paper even as they work together in the field. If your operation spans multiple entities, our multi-entity farm tax strategy work builds directly on the books we keep for you.
A local bookkeeper who's never worked a 1245 property sale or an excess fertility deduction will miss things. We won't.
Professional service businesses have their own accounting nuances: owner compensation structures, contractor versus employee classification, deferred revenue, and the way project-based billing can make monthly cash flow look very different from actual profitability. We build your books to reflect how your business actually makes money, not just how the transactions flow through a bank account.
Anytime access through a secure online platform
Accounting used to mean waiting for a phone call or driving across town to drop off a folder. Our secure online platform gives you anytime access to your financial data from wherever you are, whether that's the shop, the combine cab, or a job site three counties over.
You can see current balances, upload documents, and message our team without waiting for office hours. It's collaboration that happens on your schedule, not ours, and it means no more chasing down receipts or trying to reconcile a spreadsheet you haven't opened since last quarter. Everything lives in one place, updated continuously, visible to you and to us at the same time.
For a professional service business owner whose days are back-to-back with client work, that matters. You don't need to carve out a trip across town or block off a morning to keep your accounting current. A few minutes on your phone between appointments is enough. That kind of access is standard at national firms with big technology budgets. We built it into a fixed monthly fee for agribusinesses and professional service businesses, not just a large corporate client.
One predictable monthly fee, no surprise bills
Hourly billing turns accounting into a guessing game. Call with a question, and the meter starts running. TruCount bundles accounting with related services, reconciliation, reporting, and year-round advice, into one fixed monthly fee, so the invoice you get in June looks the same as the one you got in January.
That predictability matters most when cash flow is already tight, whether that's waiting on a fall harvest check or managing a growing payroll for a professional service business. It also matters when you're comparing what you spend on accounting to what you actually get from it. With a fixed monthly fee, you know what accounting costs before the year starts, and you'll never open an invoice wondering what changed. If your needs grow, whether that means adding payroll or setting up a new accounting system, we fold it into a conversation about your fee, not a surprise line item after the fact.
Why Brookings businesses trust TruCount with their books
- 2009
- : Year TruCount was founded
- Midwest: Geographic reach, from the Brookings, SD area and beyond
Frequently Asked Questions About Accounting
Get started with a accounting team that knows your business
Your books shouldn't be the thing keeping you up at night. Whether you're running a farm operation, an agribusiness, or a professional service business in Brookings or across the Midwest, TruCount can take accounting off your plate for one predictable monthly fee, with anytime access and a team that already understands how your business runs.
Schedule a consultation and let's get your books current, and get you back to your business.
Why clients trust us
- Julie Underwood, CPA, holds AICPA and South Dakota Society of CPAs memberships
- Firm founded in 2009 with 16 years of continuous operation
- Active member of the Brookings Area Chamber of Commerce