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 Hilo, HI. 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: 2.
HiAccounting – Hilo, HI #
Website: https://hi-accounting.com
Phone: 808.529.9990
Unlike many statewide providers, HiAccounting maintains an actual Hilo presence: its website lists a Hilo office at 145 Keawe St, one of three locations alongside an Oahu office at 700 Bishop St., Suite 600 in Honolulu and a Maui office at 24 N Church Street in Wailuku. That gives a Big Island business a named local address rather than a purely remote arrangement. The firm describes itself as a Hawaii-based finance and accounting provider for small to mid-size organizations across the state, offering professional corporate accounting without the capital cost, overhead, and management burden of building and staffing an in-house bookkeeping and accounting department.
A defining feature of the firm’s work in Hawaii is general excise tax, or GET. The website points out that Hawaii has no sales tax but does levy a general excise tax, and the firm assists with GET compliance: Hawaii tax set-up, filing GET returns, amending them, assessing the accuracy of past returns, and addressing retail versus wholesale rates and exemptions. GET preparation and filing, including Forms G-45 and G-49, sits among its listed bookkeeping deliverables, which is a Hawaii-specific need that Hilo businesses share with companies on every island.
Across its core bookkeeping and accounting work, the firm handles financial statement preparation, monthly bookkeeping and account reconciliation, accounts payable processing and vendor payments, accounts receivable management, customer billing and collections, budgeting and forecasting, payroll processing, inventory management, and 1099 preparation and filing. The website states that its financials are GAAP compliant and audit-ready, with customized services and reporting, secure and up-to-date documents, and off-site backup that allows access from any location. The firm frames the result as helping clients make business decisions driven by data in real time.
On the technology side, HiAccounting offers software as a service with both on-site and remote support across APS Payroll, Sage Intacct, QuickBooks Desktop, QuickBooks Enterprise, QuickBooks Online, and Xero. The website describes APS as a payroll solution that controls payment processing in a single data source application regardless of how many locations a company runs across multiple states, with paperless payroll, direct deposits and paycards, payroll reporting and analytics, batch error checking, and a range of exports, imports, and integrations spanning general ledger, 401K, and time and attendance. During implementation the firm says it handles all data conversion, including a parallel payroll, to support accuracy.
Its outsourced offerings split into two tracks. Outsourced bookkeeping covers general ledger, accounts payable, accounts receivable, chart of accounts, bank and credit card reconciliation, payroll journal entries, fixed assets, and accounting setup. Outsourced accounting extends to cash flow and budgeting, financial statements and reports, monthly, quarterly, and year-end review, books cleanup, management reporting, financial analysis, and billing and collections. Beyond these, the firm lists tax services including tax preparation, tax planning, IRS audit representation, and help with tax problems, plus CFO and other advisory services and general business support.
Construction is an industry the firm specifically serves. Its construction page says it has been building financial health since 2009, working with residential construction, commercial construction, general contractors, and architects. For those clients it lists accounts payable, accounts receivable, accounting software set-up, bank and credit card reconciliations, financial statement preparation, tax return preparation for C corporations, S corporations, and partnerships, budgeting, payroll processing, IRS and state audit representation, and work in progress calculations. The firm notes that it understands construction methods such as work in progress, the completed contract method, and the percentage of completion method, and that it watches cash flow closely. It states that it is an active member of the Building Industry Association and works with many BIA members on their accounting and tax needs.
Office hours listed on the website are Monday through Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm, closed on holidays. A Hilo business seeking outsourced bookkeeping, GET compliance, payroll, tax services, or construction accounting can reach the firm at its Hilo office on Keawe Street or through the contact details published on its website.
Windward Construction Accounting – Hilo, HI #
Website: https://windwardconstructionaccounting.com
For a Hilo business weighing this provider, the most important fact comes straight from the website: Windward Construction Accounting, Inc. is not located in Hilo. Its single office sits in Kaneohe on Oahu, and the firm states that while that office is conveniently located there, its clients are spread throughout Oahu and across the neighbor islands. Because the source lists no Hilo street address, no Hilo phone number, and no description of travel to the Big Island, any working relationship with a Hilo company would be handled remotely from the Oahu base rather than through a presence in the city.
The firm positions itself as a bookkeeping and accounting specialist for the construction industry and small business. Its central theme is the outsourcing of office management, which the website frames as a way for owners to focus on what they do best. According to the site, the firm brings more than 30 years of experience in full-charge bookkeeping, accounting, and office management, and it describes itself as well-versed in all business aspects of commercial and residential construction.
That construction orientation is the firm’s defining angle. By presenting specialized services for general contractors and the building trades, the website ties the practice to the financial side of contracting and construction-related work. The firm adds that it also serves the needs of other small businesses and individual professionals in Hawaii, so its reach is not limited to the trades alone. For Hilo contractors, builders, and home-service operators who want bookkeeping shaped around construction, that focus is the relevant draw, though the source stops at naming full-charge bookkeeping, accounting, and office management and does not itemize individual service lines or packages.
On cost, the website offers only a general statement: it says today’s competitive business environment calls for service that is both top-quality and cost-effective, and that the firm’s hourly rates accommodate work requiring various levels of expertise. No fixed pricing, tiers, or quotes appear in the source. The firm is led by Dana Rather Nottage, identified as President, and the site carries a statement attributed to the firm that it is its pleasure and responsibility to serve Oahu’s business community. Published business hours are Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
There is a further point that a Hilo reader should weigh before reaching out. The website states plainly that the firm is unable to accept new clientele at this time and thanks visitors for their interest. Taken at face value, that notice indicates the firm may not be onboarding new engagements, so confirming current availability would be a sensible first step rather than an assumption that the firm is open to new Big Island work.
Viewed from Hilo, then, the picture the source supports is a long-established, Kaneohe-headquartered Oahu firm whose construction accounting experience could, in principle, reach neighbor island clients on a remote basis. The site’s own language about serving Oahu and the neighbor islands is the basis for that neighbor-island reach; it is not evidence of a Hilo office. The firm’s materials lean on its decades of full-charge bookkeeping and office management work and its familiarity with the construction sector rather than on a menu of separate deliverables.
In short, the source describes a seasoned Hawaii construction accounting firm based in Kaneohe on Oahu, serving Oahu and neighbor island clients, with a specialization in commercial and residential construction, general contractors, and the building trades, plus support for other small businesses and individual professionals. Its offering centers on full-charge bookkeeping, accounting, and office management, with hourly rates the website says are matched to the expertise a task requires. For Hilo specifically, the firm’s published statement that it is not accepting new clients at this time is the most current availability information it provides, and a Hilo company would engage it remotely if at all.