If you are staring at tax deadlines and your books are behind, you are not alone. This happens to small businesses and small nonprofits every year. You planned to keep up. Client work increased. A few weeks turned into months. Now tax filings, W-2s, and 1099s are due, and the books are not ready. The good news is this is fixable. What matters is doing the cleanup in the right order. Why bookkeeping problems show up during tax season Most bookkeeping issues stay hidden until t