Law Firm Accounting Services That Show You What You Actually Made
Booxmax is a bookkeeping, payroll, and advisory firm.
Books, payroll, and reporting structured by matter and practice area, so the monthly report shows what each one earned after discounts, write-downs, and overhead.
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Busy is not the same as profitable
Most firms can tell you their revenue. Far fewer can tell you what a matter, a practice area, or a partner actually earned after the work was discounted, written down, collected late, and made to carry its share of overhead. That gap is where a firm feels busy without feeling paid. It starts with books built to answer the profitability question, not just file the transactions.
Where the money leaks
A dollar of worked time is not a dollar of profit. It gets billed, then discounted or written down, then collected, often slowly, and then asked to cover overhead before anything reaches the partners. A meaningful share never completes that journey, and most firms cannot say where it stops. You cannot fix a leak you cannot see. We keep the books so every step, worked then billed then collected, is visible by matter and by practice area.
Numbers a partner can actually read
- Matter and practice-area profitability, with overhead allocated, so you know which work pays and which only looks busy.
- A clean monthly close on a set schedule, so the report is ready when you are, not three months late.
- Realization and collection visibility: the gap between what was worked, what was billed, and what was collected, in plain numbers.
- Partner draw and distribution tracking kept straight in the books, so cash to owners is never a mystery.
Trust accounting, handled the right way
If your firm holds client funds, your operating books are only half the job. We run a full monthly three-way reconciliation on every trust account and keep a ledger per client matter. See our law firm bookkeeping page for how we keep an IOLTA in review-ready shape.
What we do, and what we don’t
We are a bookkeeping, payroll, and advisory firm. We keep your books accurate and your reports honest. We do not prepare tax returns, give legal advice, or audit your books. Income tax routes to your tax preparer. Partnership and compensation terms route to your counsel. We keep the numbers those decisions rely on.
Built for law firms, kept in QuickBooks
Your books are kept in QuickBooks Online by Certified ProAdvisors who work with law firms, on a secure 256-bit SSL/TLS client portal. We are in Burbank and serve firms across the LA metro.
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FAQ
Do you track profitability by matter? Yes. We structure the books so revenue and allocated overhead roll up by matter and practice area, not just firm-wide.
Is this different from what my CPA does? Yes. We keep the books current and accurate all year; your CPA files the return at year-end from clean numbers. Two different jobs.
Do you handle our trust account too? Yes, with a full monthly three-way reconciliation. See the law firm bookkeeping page.
Are you local? Yes. Booxmax, Inc., Burbank, CA, serving the LA metro.
This page explains general bookkeeping and reporting mechanics. It is not legal or tax advice. Income tax routes to your tax preparer; partnership and compensation terms route to your counsel.
Booxmax, Inc. · 224 E Olive Ave, Ste 217, Burbank, CA 91502 · (818) 485-2669 · Info@booxmax.com · booxmax.com