Behind on your books? Accounting backlog clean-up

Months or years of unrecorded transactions brought current, reconciled and ready to file — without judgement, and without a lecture.

  • Any period length
  • Reconstruction from bank records
  • Filing-ready output

No judgement, and no lecture. Most of the companies we do this for are trading perfectly well.

Dubai-based since 2015Office in Barsha Heights, Dubai
Formation to filingOne firm across the whole company lifecycle
Fees stated upfrontYou see the number before work starts
A named contactYou know who is handling your file

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The situation

The business has been running. The books have not been kept.

This is far more common than the market admits. A company trades, the founder is busy doing the actual work, bookkeeping slips a month, then a quarter, then a year. Nothing is wrong with the business — the records simply stopped keeping pace with it.

Then something forces the issue: a corporate tax deadline, a licence renewal that needs audited statements, a bank asking for financials, or a letter from the FTA. Suddenly a housekeeping problem has a date attached to it.

You are not the first person to call us about this, you will not be the last this week, and there is nothing in it we have not seen before.

What Aizaa does

We reconstruct the period from primary records — bank statements, invoices, contracts, wallet and card exports — reconcile it, classify it properly, and produce financial statements you can actually file from. Where returns are overdue, we prepare and file those too, so the clean-up ends in a compliant position rather than a tidy spreadsheet.

Not sure where you stand? Ask us — a 15-minute call usually settles it.

What’s included

  • Scoping call and a fixed written quote before any work begins
  • Reconstruction of transactions from bank, card and payment-platform records
  • Bank and cash reconciliation for every month in the period
  • Correct classification of revenue, costs, assets and owner transactions
  • Accounts receivable and payable position at the period end
  • Trial balance and financial statements for each affected year
  • Preparation and filing of overdue VAT and corporate tax returns where required
  • Hand-over into a monthly service so the gap does not reopen
  • A plain-language summary of what was found and what it means

Who this is for

  • Companies one month to several years behind
  • Companies facing a corporate tax or VAT deadline with no usable records
  • Companies whose free zone has asked for audited statements at renewal
  • Companies changing accountant and discovering the handover is incomplete
  • Founders who have been running the business out of one bank account and a folder of invoices

Who it is not for

We would rather say so now than three weeks in.

  • Anyone wanting records created that do not reflect what actually happened
  • Anyone wanting a transaction dated differently from when it occurred

Process

How it works

Each step says what we do and what we need from you, so nothing stalls on an unasked question.

  1. A scoping call

    Twenty minutes. How long is the gap, how many transactions a month, how many bank and payment accounts, what deadline is driving it. No documents needed yet.

  2. A fixed written quote

    Priced by period and transaction volume, in bands, in writing. If the scope turns out to be different once we are in, we tell you before doing the extra work — not after.

  3. Documents gathered

    We send a single checklist and a secure upload link. Missing invoices are normal; we work from the bank record and flag what needs substantiating.

  4. Reconstruction

    Transactions rebuilt month by month, with a running list of items we need you to explain rather than a hundred questions at the end.

  5. Reconciliation and statements

    Every month reconciled to the bank, then trial balance and financial statements per year.

  6. Filings and hand-over

    Overdue returns prepared and filed where required, then a transition to monthly bookkeeping so the backlog does not rebuild.

Ready to start? We can open the file this week.

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Documents you will need

Gather these before we start and the process runs roughly a week faster.

  • Bank statements for every account, for the whole period — the single most important item
  • Trade licence and any amendments during the period
  • Sales invoices, or the platform export if you invoice through a system
  • Purchase invoices and receipts, as far as they exist
  • Payment platform and card statements (Stripe, PayPal, Telr, Network, and similar)
  • Loan, lease and finance agreements
  • Payroll records and WPS files, if you employ staff
  • Any previous financial statements or filings, however incomplete

How long it takes

A straightforward single year with modest volume is usually four to six weeks end to end. Multi-year reconstructions with several bank accounts run six to twelve weeks. The variable is almost never our capacity — it is how quickly complete bank records arrive.

If a deadline is already close, say so on the scoping call. We can sequence the work so the filing-critical period is completed first.

What it costs

Priced by period and by transaction volume, in bands, and quoted in writing before anything starts. The bands exist so that you are not billed by the hour for a job whose size is knowable at the outset. Where the scope changes materially, we stop and re-quote rather than letting the number drift.

We do not publish a figure here because a two-month clean-up and a three-year reconstruction share nothing but a name. One call gets you a real number.

What goes wrong

Common mistakes

These are the ones we are asked to unpick most often.

Waiting until the deadline is inside a month

The work takes as long as it takes. Starting in week one of the window instead of the last one costs the same and produces a much better outcome.

Trying to rebuild it yourself first

Half-rebuilt records are harder to work with than none, because everything has to be verified twice.

Assuming missing invoices make it impossible

They do not. Bank records are the backbone; missing documents get flagged and substantiated another way.

Filing something inaccurate to meet a date

A return that has to be corrected later through a voluntary disclosure costs more than filing correctly, slightly later, having told the authority where you are.

Cleaning up without changing anything

If the same process resumes afterwards, the same backlog reappears. The hand-over is part of the job.

Why Aizaa

Four reasons you can check

We quote before we look at the mess

A scoping call is enough to price it. You are not asked to hand over three years of records to find out what it costs.

No judgement, stated plainly

This is a normal thing that happens to busy companies. You will not be made to feel otherwise, and we will not use the deadline as leverage.

It ends in a compliant position

Reconstruction alone leaves you with tidy numbers and the same overdue filings. We finish the job.

There is an afterwards

The transition to monthly bookkeeping is quoted at the same time, so you can decide with the full picture rather than being sold it later.

Who handles this

Your named specialist

Assigned when your file opens

Every Aizaa engagement has one named person responsible for it. You get their direct line — not a shared inbox and not a ticket number. If they are away, you are told who is covering and when they are back.

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Corporate tax

Usually the deadline that prompted the clean-up in the first place.

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VAT services

Overdue returns and voluntary disclosures, handled with the same records.

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Answers

Frequently asked questions

Penalties attach to late filings and late registrations, not to untidy bookkeeping in itself. Where something is already overdue, we quantify the exposure early so you know what you are dealing with, and we tell you whether a voluntary disclosure improves the position.

That is normal and it is workable. Bank records are the backbone of a reconstruction. Where an item needs substantiating, we flag it individually rather than abandoning the month.

Yes. The clean-up is only useful if it ends in a compliant position, so overdue VAT and corporate tax filings are part of the scope where they apply.

No. Aizaa is your adviser. We tell you what the position is, and we are bound by the confidentiality in our engagement terms. Where the law requires something of us in a specific circumstance, it is set out in those terms before you sign them — not sprung afterwards.

As far as the records allow. Several years is routine. The limiting factor is bank statement availability, which your bank can usually reissue.

No. The clean-up can be a standalone job and we will hand the records over to whoever you choose. We would rather do one honest engagement than tie a rescue to a retainer.

Yes — and the practical version of that answer is that files are held under the terms in our engagement letter and our privacy policy, and access is limited to the people working on your file.

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Next step

Let’s talk about your company.

A short conversation, a written plan, and fixed fees before anything starts.

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