About Us

The Balanced Books Specialists

John P. Merli and Alejandra Merli

Corporate Bookkeeping Service, Inc. is a provider of small business bookkeeping services. We are the BRIDGE between “You, the Small Business Owner” and the “Tax Accountant.” We don’t do taxes. Instead, we work with you throughout the year to keep you up to date with your bank and credit statement reconciliations and compliance and supply you with monthly financial reports that you can use to help manage your business. 

Most of our bookkeeping business is generated through referrals. These referrals often come from existing clients and our stable of CPA contacts with which we work. Chances are you received a referral from one of these CPA’s or from one of our happy customers and are looking us up online. We appreciate you checking us out. Give us a call and let’s get your work set up, cleaned up, or working the way it should be. We understand and respect the nature of our business in sharing confidential, privileged information.

We are self-employed, fellow small business owners, just like you. Let us become your confidant, your adviser, your shoestring accounting department, without the mess of shoebox accounting. We use QuickBooks software with all our clients, either based in our office or remotely accessed into your office. If we can save you the cost of the software and make it work better for you than it already does, we’re doing our job. 

We have 30 years of bookkeeping experience.

  • John P. Merli has owned several small businesses dating as far back to high school with over 20 years as a Bookkeeper.
  • Alejandra Merli has been using the QuickBooks programs for about 15 years and helps with much of the bookkeeping data entry.

QuickBooks has been around since about 1999. General ledgers used to be handwritten columns before that. We get it.

We are located in North County San Diego County, however we serve clients nationwide.

Contact us to learn more or schedule a consultation.