Bookkeeping for security services companies
Stakeville provides bookkeeping for security services companies, where payroll is 60-80% of costs: provider reconciliation (SurePayroll, Paychex), garnishment and child-support liability tracking, officer compensation for Form 1125-E, and clean C-corp workpapers.
In a security company, the books are only as good as the payroll accounting, wages dominate the P&L, and errors compound fast: clearing accounts that never zero, garnishments booked wrong, and manual payments made outside the payroll system that vanish from the record.
We reconcile every payroll run to the register, track garnishments and child support as the liabilities they are, capture off-system wage payments, and keep officer compensation clean for year-end filings, so contract margins are real, not estimates.
Where security services companies books usually break
Payroll clearing never zeros
Years of unmatched payroll entries piling up in a clearing account nobody reconciles.
Garnishments booked wrong
Child support and garnishment withholdings treated as expenses instead of liabilities.
Off-system payments
Manual wage payments outside SurePayroll or Paychex that never make it into payroll records.
How Stakeville handles it
Register reconciliation
Every payroll run tied to the provider register, gross, taxes, deductions, net.
Liability tracking
Garnishments and child support tracked and cleared correctly, period after period.
Officer compensation
Clean comp records ready for Form 1125-E and corporate filings.
Contract profitability
Labor allocated so you can see margin by contract or site.
“Our books were 14 months behind when we found Stakeville. Three weeks later everything reconciled and our CPA filed without a single question.”
“The monthly report is one page and I actually read it. What moved, why, and what to watch. That alone is worth the fee.”
Services for security services companies
Security Services Companies, common questions
Our payroll clearing account has years of junk, fixable?
Yes. We reconcile the historical activity against registers, identify every unmatched item, and set entries so the account clears going forward. This is one of our most common cleanups.
Can you allocate labor across contracts?
Yes, wages can be allocated by contract, site, or department so your P&L shows where you actually make money.
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