Bookkeeping, Accounting & CFO Services in Alameda, CA
From Alameda Point makers to Park Street restaurants and East Bay startups, PSG helps Alameda businesses keep books clean and plan finances with confidence.
From Alameda Point makers to Park Street restaurants and East Bay startups, PSG helps Alameda businesses keep books clean and plan finances with confidence.
Alameda is an island city in Alameda County, set in San Francisco Bay just across the estuary from Oakland and a ferry ride from San Francisco. Its former naval air station has been redeveloped into Alameda Point, home to breweries, distilleries, maritime firms, and light industrial tenants. The broader business mix includes biotech and technology companies, marine services, restaurants along Park Street and Webster Street, professional services, and small consumer brands that value proximity to the East Bay and the city.
Alameda's mix of craft beverage producers, maritime operators, and venture backed startups creates varied finance needs. Producers must track inventory, excise considerations, and distribution margins; startups need clean books, budgets, and investor reporting; restaurants need tight labor and food cost control in a high cost Bay Area market. PSG delivers accurate monthly bookkeeping, and our fractional CFOs help with forecasting, fundraising preparation, and pricing decisions that protect margins as costs rise.
California requires most LLCs and corporations to pay an annual minimum franchise tax, charges state sales and use tax through the CDTFA, and has strict payroll and wage rules. Several cities also impose their own business or gross receipts taxes.
General information only, not tax advice. Rules change, so confirm specifics with a tax professional.
Yes. We work with Alameda companies through a dedicated team that is entirely US based, combining Big Four accounting experience with years of operating experience across industries. Your team closes the books on a regular schedule, works inside the accounting tools you already use and looks at your numbers the way an operator would, not just a bookkeeper.
Typically bank and card reconciliations, accounts payable and receivable, payroll support, California sales tax tracking and monthly financial statements you can act on. Growing companies can add fractional CFO support for forecasting, budgeting and cash planning.
Usually when decisions start to outgrow the books: raising capital or bank financing, opening a new location, making key hires, tightening margins or preparing for a future sale. A fractional CFO adds forecasting and strategic guidance without the cost of a full time executive.
We also work with businesses in Oakland, San Leandro, Berkeley, San Francisco and South San Francisco.
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Hi! I'm Sam, a financial leader who's managed operations from startups to $40M enterprises.
I've led licensing deals with Disney, Marvel, and Viacom, while overseeing products across 35,000 retail stores. Through SHK Financial, I've helped 15+ high-growth companies succeed, including recovering $2M in receivables for a major client and rebuilding a $10M ARR company's accounting system in 6 months. Now, as Chief Accounting Officer at PSG, I oversee 50+ revenue streams and help launch many successful 8-figure businesses.
My journey started uniquely - while studying finance at Fresno State, I taught both chess and accounting to students, teaching me that success in finance, like in chess, is all about strategic thinking and seeing several moves ahead.