Specialties
Most bookkeepers have never run the kind of business they keep books for. I have.
Eight years co-owning a two-location retail business across two states, where I did the licensing, the county compliance, the inventory and the books. Then years running multi-property operations: RV resorts across four states, a rental community, storage facilities, commercial buildings and short-term rentals. I have read a P&L as the person who had to answer for it.
What that means for your books. Monthly bookkeeping, reconciliation and month-end close. Financial statements by the 15th with a written explanation of what moved and why. Revenue and margin broken out by location, service line or job, so you can see which parts of the business actually make money. Cleanup and catch-up first, because recurring work on unvalidated books is not worth paying for.
Deepest experience with campgrounds, RV parks, glamping and multi-property operators. Also construction, restaurants, property management, retail, landscaping and self-storage.
Not a CPA firm. No tax preparation or filing, audits, attestation, valuation, investment advice, forecasting or modeling. Account access is read-only, always, and I never hold or move client funds. I work alongside your tax preparer, not in place of them.
Every engagement starts with a free review of your books. What is accurate, what needs fixing, and what they are not telling you. No obligation either way.
History
Established in 2026.
I started Brooks Advisory Partners in August 2026, but I have been doing this work a lot longer than that.
I kept the books for a family business before I ever ran operations for anyone else. Then eight years of my own two-location retail business, where the books were mine at the end of every season. Then years of multi-property operations where someone else kept the records and I had to answer for what they said.
What pushed me to open the practice was watching automation get treated as a finished job. Bank rules categorize for two years and nobody checks them. The software guesses and nobody verifies. Errors compound quietly until a tax deadline or a loan application forces someone to look.
The tools are good. They still need someone who knows what the output is supposed to say.
Meet the Business Owner: Laura .
Here is what I actually like about this work.
An owner has a question they stopped asking a long time ago, because the answer never showed up in the reports. Which location is carrying the other one. Whether the service line they are proudest of is paying for itself. Why the business is profitable on paper and there is no cash in the bank.
Those questions are answerable. Usually quickly, once the books are clean and organized for that business instead of from a template.
I like being the person who hands the answer over. Your books are the record of what you built, and they should be able to tell you something.
If yours are behind, that is the normal condition and it is where most of my clients start. The first conversation costs nothing.
