Bookkeeping Express Partners with Intelligent Office

Originally Published in
Washington Business Journal, Thursday, June 5, 2008
By Tierney Plumb Staff Reporter


Bookkeeping Express has teamed with Intelligent Office to provide accounting services to small businesses in the D.C. area.

This is the first partnership in the area for the McLean-based bookkeeping company, which was acquired last year by Merritt Green, Bob Stocker and Greg Jones.

The owners moved the 20-year-old bookkeeping company's headquarters from California, and aligned the company with the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers in Rockville. They plan to launch a national Franchise system later this month.

Intelligent Office, a virtual office base that offers remote receptionist services, will provide bookkeeping services to its 800 small business clients in the D.C. area through the new partnership. Services include accounts payable and receivable, monthly reporting, and bank reconciliation.

"This will help our business owners to look at us as a one-stop shop. We are out there working with small businesses to be able to offer a decent bookkeeping service so they feel like they are getting a fair price, confidentiality, and control," said Pramod Raheja, managing partner of three of the five Intelligent Offices in the D.C. area. A sixth location in Alexandria will open this September.

"Entrepreneurs can be decent at wearing all hats. They can be a good marketer, a good seller, but if they do too much they can't grow because they get bogged down," he said.

Boulder, Colo.-based Intelligent Services entered the D.C. market in 2005, looking to target small business owners. Raheja now oversees 400 clients from three area locations.