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The answer

18 months behind on bookkeeping

Eighteen months is a year and a half: one complete tax year that is already late or filed on estimates, plus the current year, half-built. The two are linked — the current year cannot be closed correctly until the prior year gives it an opening balance somebody can explain.

Firms price this above the annual band, $3,500 to $10,000 or more, three to eight weeks, quoted only after a call. Titan's public price for up to 24 months is $1,899 — $79.13 per month closed, the cheapest per-month rate we publish — and your first month closes free before any of it.

eighteen months behind, priced

  • A bookkeeper or firm would quote$3,500 – $10,000+
  • Titan, up to 24 months behind$1,899
  • Per month closed and tied out$79.13
  • Your first month, closed and tied out$0
  • Turnaround, statements to closed booksHours
Close one month free

No account, no card, no bank connection. Change the numbers.

01 / Market rates

What a firm charges to close eighteen months behind.

The going US rates for a cleanup engagement starting from bank and card statements, for a business doing roughly 50 to 300 transactions a month. Quoted after a discovery call, in every case.

1 to 3 months behind

Typical quote$300 – $500
Timeline3 – 8 weeks

4 to 6 months behind

Typical quote$500 – $1,500
Timeline3 – 8 weeks

Twelve months behind

Typical quote$1,500 – $3,500
Timeline3 – 8 weeks

Two years or more

Typical quote$3,500 – $10,000+
Timeline3 – 8 weeks

At 18 months your quote comes from the row marked Over a year behind: $3,500 – $10,000+. Extra accounts add 20 to 40%, and image-only scanned statements are the single most expensive input in cleanup.

02 / The size of the job

What eighteen months actually is.

Statements to read
18 per account — commonly 18 to 54 documents
Transactions
900 at 50 a month, 3,600 at 200 a month, 9,000 at 500
Reconciliations
18 per account, in order, each tied to the printed ending balance
Reports it produces
Eighteen monthly P&Ls, an annual P&L for the completed year, a year-to-date P&L for the current one, two balance sheets, cash flow, the full ledger
By hand
100 to 150 hours, spread over months, which is why it does not get done

At 200 transactions a month, 18 months is roughly 3,600 lines to read, categorize and reconcile.

03 / What it is costing you

What eighteen months behind actually blocks.

At this distance the missing books are blocking something specific, and it is usually not a preference.

  • A late return, accruing

    Failure-to-file and failure-to-pay penalties accrue monthly on an unfiled return, and interest runs on top. The books are the input; the sooner they exist, the sooner the exposure stops growing.

  • Two years, one ledger

    The completed year has to be closed first and correctly, because its ending balances are the current year's opening balances. Closing them out of order produces two sets of numbers that do not agree.

  • Anyone doing diligence

    A buyer, a lender, an investor or a franchisor asks for two years of financials as a matter of course. Eighteen months of nothing is not a gap you can talk your way through.

  • Whatever you half-started

    A partially categorized accounting file is often more work than an empty one, because the wrong entries have to be found before they can be fixed. We read the statements themselves, so nothing you did or did not do in QuickBooks slows this down.

Titan is not an accounting firm and does not give tax advice. The dates above are the ordinary federal calendar; your own filing obligations depend on your entity and your state, and a licensed CPA or preparer should review and sign the return.

04 / Titan's price

Public, fixed, and payable on this page.

Eighteen months behind is covered by Catch-Up 24 at $1,899. Nothing is quoted, and the only thing that can move it is volume above 500 transactions a month, which is a published tier named before you pay.

Catch-Up 6

Up to 6 months behind

83.17 per month closed

$499

Buy

Catch-Up 12

Up to 12 months behind

83.25 per month closed

$999

Buy

Catch-Up 24

Up to 24 months behind

79.13 per month closed

$1,899

Buy

That is $1,601 – $8,101+ less than a firm quotes for the same 18 months, delivered in hours rather than three to eight weeks.

Close one month free before you buy anything. Drop one statement and read the closed month, tied out to the ending balance your bank printed.

05 / A different distance

How far behind are you, really?

Any number of months up to 36, with your own transaction volume, on the instant estimate.

06 / Questions

What owners at eighteen months behind ask.

Is 18 months behind still fixable?
Yes, and the method does not change with distance — it is the same reconstruction from bank and card statements, one month at a time, each tied out to the printed ending balance. What changes is the volume, and volume is what we are fast at. The one thing that genuinely blocks a close is a missing document, and we name the exact file when that happens rather than guessing around it.
How much do firms charge for a year and a half of cleanup?
Above the twelve-month band: $3,500 to $10,000 or more, quoted after a discovery call and delivered over three to eight weeks. Titan's public price for up to 24 months is $1,899, or $79.13 per month closed. No quote, no call, and the number does not change after you send the files unless you are above 500 transactions a month, which is a published tier rather than a surprise.
What if some statements are missing?
We say exactly which one and why it matters — a missing page makes the running balance jump, and the month it belongs to will not tie out. You upload the missing document, or you buy only the months we can actually close. If a month you paid for cannot be tied out after a second attempt, we refund that month's share without being asked and label it plainly.
Do I need to do the two years separately?
No. Send everything you have and Catch-Up 24 covers up to twenty-four months as one purchase. The months close in order so the prior year's ending balances become the current year's opening balances, which is the part that goes wrong when this is done piecemeal.

Start with one month, closed free.

One statement, one closed month, tied out to the figure your bank printed. No call, no card, no bank connection.

Close one month free

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