Books sometimes arrive "after the battle": following a provider change, years of partial archives, or an error that rolled forward quarter after quarter. Honest rebuilds rarely finish in a single heroic Friday. We work in passes — first a clear picture of what is known and unknown, then an agreed catch-up plan, then corrections with explicit notes where evidence simply stops.
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We list periods, accounts and transaction types that refuse to tell a coherent story: odd balances, lines without invoices, mismatches with how you remember trading. With you we prioritise — often current-year compliance first, older years if budget and purpose justify it — and reality-check what archive actually exists: scans, supplier portals, bank history, boxes in storage.
Missing postings land where hard evidence exists: invoices, contracts, bank extracts, confirmations. When paperwork is gone, agreed opening balances or negotiated historic figures may be the least-bad path — labelled honestly as "limited-documentation" work with different risk than full forensic reconstruction. We document those islands so you know what stands on proof and what stands on agreement.
We aim for balances and categories that plausibly reconcile with what already went to tax offices when you supply copies of filed returns or working papers behind them. Perfect historical reconciliation may be impossible with archive holes; then our job is plain language on where the trail breaks and what remedies exist — supplementary records, amendments, advisor consults — rather than cosmetic calm.
We leave a concise wrap: what was fixed, what remains open, practical habits for ongoing bookkeeping (single invoice lane, month-end cut-off, "high-risk vendor" list). The goal is to avoid rebuilding the same mess six months later — round two is usually more expensive in every sense.
18 Feb 2026
Loss, destruction or missing accounting documents is one of the most common “dark hours” for a business owner. Flood, disk failure, tax audit, a previous accountant’s error or documents that “went missing” – there are many causes. You cannot just “put something in Excel”. Books must be reconstructed legally under the Accounting Act and Tax Ordinance.
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