One finance department, three ways to engage it — accounting, tax, and CFO leadership under one roof.
Flagship service Full-Service Accounting Close management, monthly financial statements, reconciliations, payroll, and bill pay — handled every month, not chased every April. See the full service list →A dedicated trust-accounting practice for law firms — because even small IOLTA errors can carry serious consequences.
Start here Trust Accounting Review No commitment. 15-minute review of your trust accounting — most firms uncover compliance issues within the first review. Request a review →Small and mid-sized businesses in motion — clarity for owners whose finance has to keep up with their growth.
Full-service accounting, tax planning, and fractional CFO services for small and mid-sized businesses — the financial infrastructure your business needs to scale with control. You run the company. We’ll run the finance.
Most firms make you book a call to learn what anything costs. Ours are right here — three monthly plans, each one a deeper level of the same finance function.
The essentials, handled
For owners who need clean books and clear statements, every month.
Your books closed and your statements delivered, every month. Stack payroll or bill pay on top, and you land in Controller.
Schedule an Intro CallAdds payroll, bill pay & receivables
For businesses whose payroll, bills, and receivables eat the week.
The day-to-day finance operations of the business, off your plate. Add tax planning or forecasting, and you land in Fractional CFO.
Schedule an Intro CallFull finance leadership
For owners who steer by forecasts, dashboards, and a plan.
A finance department and a CFO — forecasting, dashboards, and a seat at the table.
Schedule an Intro CallPrices listed represent typical engagement costs. Engagement prices are driven by volume and complexity, and the final price is determined after a consultation call.
Tap the things you want off your plate. Each block locks onto the stack, and the plan that covers your whole stack — at its published price — lights up beside it.
Your stack is empty — tap a need and the first block lands here.
Most businesses start with the monthly close: clean books and statements you can actually read. Add a block and we’ll show you the plan that covers it.
Schedule an Intro CallAccounting, tax, and CFO advisory in one practice — so your books, your filings, and your forecasts all agree with each other.
Your books closed on schedule, every month — not reconstructed in a panic at year-end.
ACCOUNTANT +Balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement — the full picture, delivered monthly.
ACCOUNTANT +Every account tied out to its statement, so the numbers you steer by can be trusted.
ACCOUNTANT +Payroll run, recorded, and reconciled — your team paid right, your books kept clean.
CONTROLLER +Bills captured, approved, and paid on time — payables stop living in your inbox.
CONTROLLER +Invoices out, payments chased, aging watched — cash stops leaking between sale and deposit.
CONTROLLER +Behind or tangled books rebuilt into a clean starting line you can build on.
START HEREYour accounting system set up and tuned for how your business actually runs.
SETUPDecisions weighed during the year — entity, timing, purchases — while they can still change the outcome.
FRACTIONAL CFOLaw firms operate under strict trust accounting rules, where even small errors can lead to serious consequences. Our dedicated practice runs your IOLTA accounting as a three-stage path — compliance first, systems second, strategy third.
“Most firms uncover compliance issues within the first review.”
No commitment. 15-minute review of your trust accounting — where it stands, and what it would take to fix.
Small and mid-sized businesses whose finance has to keep up with their ambitions — across the East Bay and remotely.
Our dedicated vertical: IOLTA trust accounting, 3-way reconciliation, and profitability by matter.
See the law firm practice →Financial infrastructure that scales with control — books, payroll, and forecasting from the early stages.
Books that keep pace with the portfolio — every property’s numbers, current and reconciled.
Margins, utilization, and cash flow made visible monthly, so pricing and hiring decisions have numbers behind them.
Job costs, payroll, and receivables under control — know which work actually makes money.
Irregular income, organized: monthly statements, tax planning, and finances that don’t spike with every payout.
Accounting is the language of business — and Justus Gibson learned it early, in high school accounting courses that turned into a career. After earning his bachelor’s degree in Accounting from Portland State University, he spent seven years with CPA firms — including Big 4 and other top national firms — providing accounting and assurance services to public, private, and venture-backed organizations.
Justus CPA exists to put that training to work where it’s scarcest: inside new and growing businesses that need a real finance function, at a price a small business can carry — published, in the open.
A passion for business that started with accounting courses in high school — and never really left the ledger.
Bachelor’s degree in Accounting.
Big 4 and other top national firms — accounting and assurance services for public, private, and venture-backed organizations.
Founded to support new and growing businesses — full-service accounting, tax planning, and fractional CFO leadership from Oakland, California.
Justus Gibson, CPA — personally. Justus CPA is a solo practice: the CPA you meet on the intro call is the person who closes your books, plans your taxes, and sits in your advisory sessions. No hand-offs, no anonymous team.
Plans are published: Accountant at $350/mo, Controller at $750/mo, and Fractional CFO at $1,750/mo. Prices listed represent typical engagement costs — engagement prices are driven by volume and complexity, and the final price is determined after a consultation call.
A working conversation about your bookkeeping, tax planning, and where your finance function is straining. We map what needs handling, which plan covers it, and what it would cost — the final price is set after that call, based on your volume and complexity.
Yes. Historical book clean-up is a core service: we rebuild the backlog into a clean starting line, then the monthly close, statements, and reconciliations keep them from falling behind again.
Yes — it is our dedicated vertical. We start with a trust accounting compliance review (no commitment, 15 minutes), then manage the systems month to month: 3-way reconciliation, client ledger reconciliation, and trust vs. operating account analysis, with CFO advisory on top when you want it.
QuickBooks and Xero — setup and optimization are part of the service, so your system is configured for how your business actually runs, not left as an out-of-the-box default.
Start with a conversation — your books, your taxes, and the finance function your business actually needs.
Book a time to discuss bookkeeping, tax planning, and what your business needs handled.
Schedule an Intro CallPrefer to talk it through first? Call the practice directly.
Call nowSend the question, the mess, or the plan — it lands with Justus.
Write to usJustus CPA · Oakland, CA 94612 · Law firms: ask about the Trust Accounting Review — no commitment, 15-minute review.
