This page lists bookkeeping and accounting firms that serve home-service and trades businesses such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, roofing, landscaping, and general contracting in North Charleston, SC. Each entry summarizes the firm based on its own website, and notes when a firm serves the area remotely rather than from a local office.
Firms listed: 3.
Fringe Advisory #
Website: https://www.rsccpa.net
Phone: 843-375-8804
Tax reduction planning is the banner under which Fringe Advisory presents much of its work, and it captures the firm’s general pitch: accounting and tax services aimed at lowering what small businesses owe. The website describes the practice as a Charleston, SC CPA firm offering accounting, bookkeeping, and tax services, and it frames its tax work around strategies meant to reduce state and federal taxes. Alongside tax reduction planning, the firm lists tax preparation and assistance with IRS tax problems, and through its business incorporation service it offers guidance on entity selection and tax planning for new businesses.
Where the firm operates deserves a plain statement. Fringe Advisory lists its office at 1125 Bowman Road, Mount Pleasant, SC, a community within the Charleston metro area. While the site markets itself as a Charleston CPA firm serving businesses across the greater Charleston area, including North Charleston, its address places it in Mount Pleasant. A North Charleston business would therefore be working with a firm based in nearby Mount Pleasant rather than within North Charleston itself, though the directory keeps the North Charleston heading.
Construction accounting takes up a large share of the firm’s published material, and it has its own page on the site. Fringe Advisory states that it provides construction subcontractor accounting services for commercial construction companies, residential contractors, and local tradesmen, noting that accurate accounting matters to small businesses in the construction industry and that managing these functions in-house can drain time and resources. The construction-related services it lists include outsourced accounting and bookkeeping, month-end and year-end closings, cash balance tracking, bank and credit card reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, sales tax processing, tax planning and compliance, operational reviews and assessments, job estimating and costing, fixed asset accounting and depreciation, and payroll processing. QuickBooks support appears among these construction services as well. On its construction page the firm says it has worked with many businesses in the construction field and describes its aim as finding practical ways to limit expenses and reduce tax liabilities so clients can increase profits.
The firm’s general accounting offerings extend past construction. These include business accounting, outsourced accounting, QuickBooks services, and incorporation services, and the firm presents budgeting and financial projections as part of its accounting work, with ongoing involvement in clients’ daily financial functions. The site groups its accounting offerings under headings such as accounting services, outsourced bookkeeping, QuickBooks support, and business incorporation, while its tax work is organized under tax reduction planning, tax preparation, and tax problem resolution.
By industry, the firm identifies several sectors beyond construction and subcontractors: beauty businesses, chiropractors and physical therapy practices, real estate and property management, recreation and tourism, and restaurants. This grouping suggests the firm shapes parts of its accounting and tax services to the needs of each business type, with construction and subcontractors singled out for a dedicated page of their own.
The website characterizes the firm’s working style as built on regular communication and involvement in clients’ financial functions. Fringe Advisory states that it works to identify accounting solutions and tax strategies meant to improve business performance, including reducing tax liabilities, cutting expenses, and improving accounting efficiency, and that it aims to develop a customized package of accounting and tax services for each business while building long-term professional relationships. It invites prospective clients to request a consultation and provides a client portal for existing ones.
For businesses in the construction trades and related home and commercial service fields, the firm’s emphasis on job estimating, job costing, and fixed asset accounting points to an orientation toward contractor and subcontractor bookkeeping. The site also references resources including a QuickBooks Online features guide and a newsletter covering tax tips and due dates. Readers should note that the descriptive and promotional language about experience and results reflects the firm’s own characterization of its services. The contact information published on the site lists the Mount Pleasant address and the phone number above, and the firm invites inquiries from area businesses, including those in and around North Charleston, seeking accounting, bookkeeping, and tax support.
Tideline CPAs #
Website: https://tidelinecpas.com
Phone: 843-972-3767
Owner-operated and closely held businesses are the clients Tideline CPAs says it knows best, and that focus shapes the rest of the practice. Operating as Tideline CPA Group, LLC, the firm is a certified public accounting practice whose website lists payroll, bookkeeping, bookkeeping consulting, client bill pay, tax planning, tax compliance, compilation of financial statements, and sales tax services. That mix shows a firm equipped to carry both the recurring recordkeeping a business needs month to month and the seasonal tax and compliance work that comes due each year. The firm describes itself as offering a comprehensive suite of financial services tailored to the businesses it works with.
The firm’s office is the natural starting point for the location question. Tideline lists its address as 1214 Chuck Dawley Blvd, Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464, which places its physical base in Mount Pleasant. It describes itself, though, as a full service local accounting firm serving the Greater Charleston Area and beyond, a service area that takes in North Charleston. So a North Charleston business would work with a firm headquartered in nearby Mount Pleasant rather than within North Charleston itself, even as the directory keeps the North Charleston heading. The firm calls itself locally owned and operated and refers to its team as neighbors of the clients it serves.
Industry concentration is a defining part of how Tideline describes its work. The sectors it lists serving include real estate, retail, construction, manufacturing and distribution, restaurant and hospitality, professional services, closely held business, and investment partnerships. Its tax specialty areas name construction contractors specifically, along with real estate, professional services, restaurant and hospitality, closely held business, investment partnerships, retail, and manufacturing and distribution. Because construction appears both as an industry served and as a named tax specialty, the firm clearly works with businesses in the building and contracting trades alongside its other client sectors.
How the firm characterizes its approach is largely a matter of relationships. The website states that Tideline aims to serve clients and build relationships through knowledge, integrity, and timeliness, and it describes its professionals as responsive and accessible advisors who bring expertise in tax matters and financial decision support while delivering reliable quality and personal service. The firm puts those relationships in personal terms on its site, observing that its clients become friends and its friends become clients, and it sums up its identity as a place where quality and personal service converge, inviting prospective clients to reach out for any accounting need.
A look at the service list confirms a practice built for the day-to-day as well as the once-a-year. The pairing of bookkeeping, bookkeeping consulting, and payroll with tax planning and compliance suggests the firm can manage both the ongoing financial records and the periodic tax obligations of small and owner-operated businesses. Its compilation of financial statements points to work assembling financial reports for clients, while sales tax processing and client bill pay cover routine operational tasks that many businesses choose to hand off.
Client communication extends beyond the service descriptions. The website publishes news and tax updates, and as of the captured content the most recent of these covered tax legislation enacted in 2025, with separate summaries written for individuals, for employees and employers, and for businesses. These updates take the form of client letters signed by the firm, an effort to keep clients abreast of tax-law changes that may affect them and a sign that tax planning and compliance are treated as core parts of the practice.
For contact and scheduling, the firm publishes its Mount Pleasant office address, the telephone number above, and email addresses for general inquiries. Its hours run Monday through Friday with morning and afternoon blocks split by a midday break, and it offers a client portal and an online payment option for existing clients. Tideline invites businesses across the Greater Charleston Area, including those in and around North Charleston, to reach out for accounting, bookkeeping, payroll, and tax needs. Readers should bear in mind that the language about expertise, quality, and personal service is the firm’s own characterization of its work as published on its website.
Tides Bookkeeping #
Website: https://www.tidesbookkeeping.com
Phone: (864) 559-2686
Tides Bookkeeping, operating as Tides Bookkeeping LLC, is a remote bookkeeping firm that serves small businesses in North Charleston, SC. According to its website, the firm is a remote first practice headquartered in Greenville, SC, and it provides its services to North Charleston business owners entirely remotely. The site states plainly that the firm is built remote first and delivers all of its services online, so rather than maintaining a local office in North Charleston, Tides Bookkeeping works with North Charleston clients from its Greenville base and through remote tools. The firm presents this remote model as a deliberate choice, noting that it was built to operate remotely from the start.
The website describes a set of core bookkeeping and financial services. These include monthly bookkeeping, in which the firm categorizes transactions, reconciles accounts, and delivers profit and loss statements and balance sheets each month. The firm also offers catch up bookkeeping for clients with backlogs, setup and cleanup work that includes configuring QuickBooks and building a chart of accounts, bank reconciliation across accounts, and monthly financial reporting that covers profit and loss, balance sheet, and cash flow reports. Additional services include accounts payable and receivable tracking and payroll bookkeeping support, in which the firm ensures payroll expenses are recorded correctly and reconciled in coordination with a client’s payroll processor.
Tides Bookkeeping states that it works in QuickBooks Online for bookkeeping and uses Puzzle.io for real time financial dashboards. The website notes that the firm can set up QuickBooks Online for clients who are not already using it as part of onboarding. The firm describes its certifications and partnerships on the site, referring to QuickBooks ProAdvisor status, Gusto payroll certification, and Puzzle advisor certification. The firm also states that it coordinates directly with clients’ certified public accountants or tax preparers, sharing access to QuickBooks and exporting reports in the formats those professionals need so that tax season is smoother.
The firm identifies a range of industries it serves, several of which fall within the home and building service trades. The website lists contractors and trades, with references to job costing, subcontractor payments, and material expenses, as well as construction, HVAC, plumbing, and electrical work. Other industries named include real estate, restaurants and cafes, professional services, healthcare and wellness, retail and boutiques, technology and startups, and personal services such as salons and barbershops. In its broader nationwide materials, the firm also references automotive services, logistics and transportation, solo entrepreneurs, and non profit organizations among the client types it works with.
The firm describes its pricing as a flat monthly rate based on a client’s monthly expense volume, with no setup fees and no long term contracts. The website lists tiered monthly plans scaled to different levels of monthly expenses, and it states that all plans include monthly profit and loss statements, balance sheets, bank reconciliation, and dedicated support, with payroll bookkeeping support available as an add on. The firm emphasizes that clients can cancel at any time and describes a satisfaction approach for the first month of service. It also states that there are no setup fees and that clients pay their first month’s rate after onboarding is complete.
Tides Bookkeeping describes its service area as North Charleston and the wider Charleston County and South Carolina Lowcountry region, while also stating that it serves small businesses nationwide because its process is fully remote. The website includes client reviews attributed to its QuickBooks ProAdvisor profile and outlines a process that moves from a discovery call through onboarding, initial cleanup, and ongoing monthly work. For contact, the firm publishes the telephone number above and an option to book a free consultation. Prospective clients in North Charleston should understand that the firm operates remotely from Greenville rather than from a North Charleston office, and that statements about responsiveness, accuracy, and results reflect the firm’s own description of its services.