Bookkeeping in Kensington, MD for the small businesses anchoring this incorporated town inside Montgomery County — the antique dealers and specialty retailers along Howard Avenue's Antique Row, the dental and medical practices on Connecticut Avenue, the contractors and service businesses serving the 20895 ZIP. We handle weekly reconciliation, Maryland-ready books, SDAT business personal property, Montgomery County personal property, and the small-shop accounting most national firms can't be bothered with. Verified Intuit QuickBooks ProAdvisor.
The Town of Kensington is small — about one square mile incorporated, with a few thousand residents and a tight cluster of small businesses along Howard Avenue and Connecticut Avenue. Most of our Kensington clients are antique dealers, specialty retailers, dental and medical practices, and residential-service contractors. The Maryland regulatory stack is the same as the rest of Montgomery County, but the businesses are smaller and the bookkeeping work needs to be done at a price that respects that.
Kensington’s Antique Row and the surrounding business district are home to dozens of small businesses that need reliable financial management without the overhead of a full-time bookkeeper. Capital Accounting Group fills that gap with weekly reconciliation, QuickBooks management, and tax-ready financial reporting — all at a flat monthly rate.
We serve businesses throughout the Kensington, Wheaton, and Garrett Park area of Montgomery County. From retail shops on Connecticut Avenue to professional service firms and home-based businesses, we tailor our bookkeeping to fit your operations and your budget.
Maryland businesses face specific state tax requirements that differ from DC and Virginia. Our team stays current on Maryland tax law, Montgomery County business regulations, and quarterly filing deadlines so nothing falls through the cracks.
Every small business bookkeeping client in Kensington, MD gets the complete service.
If any of these hit home, we should talk. Free 15-minute consultation, no pressure.
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We're not a national chain. We understand Kensington and Montgomery County and Maryland tax rules, industry mix, and what Kensington and Montgomery County business owners actually need from a small business bookkeeper.
A Howard Avenue antique dealer came to us heading into year five. They had a brick-and-mortar shop, a 1stDibs storefront, a Chairish account, and an occasional eBay store. Inventory was tracked in a notebook. Sales were posted to QuickBooks once a month, manually, from bank statements. Maryland sales tax was being filed but no one was tracking out-of-state sales for economic nexus purposes — they'd just received a letter from a different state asking for back filings.
In about three weeks, we set up state-by-state economic-nexus tracking through the QuickBooks Online sales-tax engine, integrated 1stDibs and Chairish via their connectors, reconciled twelve months of merchant deposits and Stripe payouts, set up a simple inventory tracking method that didn't require enterprise software, and filed the back returns the other state had asked about. We caught a small SDAT exemption that had been missed for two years. We now close the books weekly, file Maryland sales tax monthly, and produce a multi-channel margin report monthly.
That's a representative composite — not a single real client — but it's a pattern we see in Kensington's small-shop retail business.
We serve small businesses throughout Washington DC, Maryland, and Virginia.
All services designed for Kensington small businesses.
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