Bookkeeping Services in Singapore

Outsourced monthly bookkeeping for Singapore SMEs and founders — reconciled bank, payables and receivables, GST-ready coding, and clean cloud books you can actually rely on.

Most growing Singapore companies reach a point where their bookkeeping has quietly fallen behind. Bank transactions go unreconciled for weeks, supplier bills pile up in an inbox, GST coding drifts, and nobody is quite sure whether the numbers in the accounting software are right. By the time a tax deadline or a financing conversation arrives, the books are no longer something you can trust.

Steadbook takes that recurring work off your desk. We keep your books current month after month, reconcile every account, and code transactions so they are GST-ready and tidy at year end. The result is a clean, up-to-date set of cloud books — the foundation everything else in your finance function depends on.

Who this is for

Founders who have outgrown the spreadsheet.

Bookkeeping in a spreadsheet works right up until it doesn't. As transaction volume grows, the manual approach starts to cost you accuracy, time and confidence. This service is for owners and finance leads who recognise that moment.

What we help with

The monthly bookkeeping cycle.

RECORD & RECONCILE

Keeping the ledger accurate.

  • Monthly bank, credit-card and payment-gateway reconciliation
  • Accounts payable — recording and tracking supplier bills
  • Accounts receivable — invoicing records and outstanding balances
  • Expense and receipt capture against the right transactions
  • A tidy, consistent chart of accounts
TIDY & READY

Books that feed everything else.

  • GST-ready transaction coding for quarterly returns
  • Month-end review so each period closes cleanly
  • Up-to-date numbers available to you in Xero at any time
  • Documentation attached to entries, kept audit-ready
  • A clean trail into corporate tax filing and reporting

Clean books are not an end in themselves. They are what makes the next stage of the year straightforward: GST returns that reconcile, an annual financial statement that comes together without rework, and a corporate tax computation that starts from numbers you trust. When the bookkeeping is right, your accounting and tax work is faster, cheaper and far less stressful.

Common issues we solve

What usually brings clients to us.

In short

If your books are behind, inconsistent, or simply untrustworthy, the work is recoverable. We reconstruct what's there, correct what's wrong, and put a reliable monthly rhythm in place so it stays clean.

What you need to provide

To get started, we ask for a few things.

You don't need any of this perfectly organised. Part of what we do at the outset is make sense of what exists and put a clean structure around it.

How Steadbook works

From handover to a steady monthly rhythm.

STEP 1 — REVIEW

We understand where you are.

  • A short conversation about your business and current state
  • A look at your existing books and source documents
  • A written proposal scoped to the actual work
STEP 2 — SET UP

We get you onto clean foundations.

  • Your Xero file set up or tidied, under your ownership
  • Any backlog brought current, period by period
  • A consistent chart of accounts and coding approach
STEP 3 — RUN

We keep it current every month.

  • Monthly reconciliation of every account
  • Payables and receivables kept up to date
  • GST-ready books, closed cleanly each period
STEP 4 — CONNECT

Your books feed the bigger picture.

  • A clean trail into GST returns and corporate tax filing
  • A foundation for reporting and financing conversations
  • A named contact who knows your file

Bookkeeping rarely lives on its own. For companies that want a fuller finance function — a proper monthly close and finance operations — the same clean books become the engine for management reporting. A named lead handles your file with a partner reviewing the work, and everything is executed in systems you own and can see into at any time.

Common questions

About bookkeeping with Steadbook.

What is the difference between bookkeeping and accounting?

Bookkeeping is the recurring work of recording and reconciling every transaction — bank entries, supplier bills, customer invoices and expense claims — so your ledger is accurate and complete. Accounting builds on that: interpreting the numbers, preparing financial statements, computing tax and advising on decisions. Clean bookkeeping is the foundation; without it, the accounting and tax work on top is slower and less reliable.

How often should my books be done?

We recommend monthly. Reconciling every month keeps errors small and catchable, gives you up-to-date numbers to make decisions on, and means GST returns and year-end tax filing are a tidy step rather than a scramble. Some very small or dormant companies can run on a quarterly cycle, but monthly is the standard we suggest for any active business.

Can you fix a backlog or do catch-up bookkeeping?

Yes. Catch-up work is a common starting point. If your books are months behind, mixed across spreadsheets, or were never set up properly, we reconstruct them period by period — reconciling bank statements, sorting supplier and customer records and correcting the chart of accounts — until you are current. From there we move you onto a clean monthly cycle.

Which accounting software do you use?

We work in Xero, the cloud platform we use for most Singapore engagements. It gives you live visibility of your own numbers, supports bank feeds and GST reporting, and integrates with common tools. If you already run another cloud system we can discuss it, but new engagements are normally set up on Xero.

Will I still own my books?

Always. Your books live in your own Xero file under your ownership, and supporting workpapers are kept in a shared folder you control. We never hold your accounts on a closed system you cannot access. If you ever move on, everything stays with you.

How do you handle receipts and documents?

You send source documents — supplier invoices, bank statements, expense receipts — through a shared folder or by forwarding them, and we file each against the right transaction. Keeping documentation attached to entries means your books stay audit-ready and GST input claims are properly supported, without you having to keep a shoebox of paper.

Tell us about your business.

Drop us a message. We'll follow up with questions, a quotation, and a clear path forward.

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