Financial Analysis
Know exactly where the money goes — and what to do about it.
- Cash-flow forecasting
- Margin & profitability analysis
- Budget vs. actual reporting
- Break-even modeling
Raleigh, North Carolina
Clean books.
Clear numbers.
A better business.
Meliora Solutions is a veteran-owned consulting firm based in the Triangle — and not confined to it. We work with small businesses across North Carolina and beyond, handling the bookkeeping, payroll and taxes so you can run the business you actually set out to build.
Peruvian owned
Marine Corps veteran owned
English & Español
Monthly close
Illustrative
Revenue$482,900
Operating expenses$311,450
Net income$171,450
Trusted by owners who don't have time to guess
What we do
Five services. Done properly.
We keep the offering deliberately narrow. These are the five things a small business actually needs — and the five we'd stake our name on.
Bookkeeping
Accurate, reconciled, audit-ready books every single month.
- QuickBooks setup & cleanup
- Monthly reconciliation
- A/P and A/R management
- Month-end close
Tax Returns
Business and individual filings prepared to keep your liability legal and low.
- Business & individual returns
- Deduction optimization
- Quarterly estimates
- IRS & NC DOR correspondence
Payroll
Everyone paid on time, every filing made on time. Run end to end in Gusto.
- Gusto setup & migration
- Biweekly & semi-monthly runs
- W-2, 1099 & new-hire filings
- PTO and benefits tracking
Website Creation
A site that looks like the business you're building. Fast and mobile-first.
- Custom design & build
- E-commerce & online booking
- Google Business Profile setup
- Hosting, care & analytics
Let's take the books off your desk.
Full service breakdownHow we work
We sit on your side of the table.
Most firms hand you a report and disappear. We walk you through it — in English or Spanish — until the numbers make sense.
You get one point of contact who knows your business, your season and your margins. Not a ticket number in a queue.
The engagement
Four steps to books you can trust.
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01
Discovery call
A 30-minute conversation about your business, your current setup, and what's actually keeping you up at night.
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02
Diagnostic & cleanup
We review your existing books and filing history, fix what's broken, and set a clean baseline in QuickBooks.
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03
Monthly rhythm
Reconciliation, payroll and a plain-language report land on the same date every month.
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04
Planning ahead
Quarterly estimates, tax strategy and a forward forecast, so filing season is a formality.
Client results
What better looks like.
125%
increase in operational efficiency after we rebuilt onboarding and payroll.
Reported by RockBox
77%
reduction in unnecessary expenditures identified in the first review.
Reported by RockBox
6
industries served — construction, hospitality, retail, property, food service and fitness.
Clients shown above
We have seen a 125% increase in operational efficiency and a 77% reduction in unnecessary expenditures — with notable improvements in onboarding and payroll accuracy.
Platforms
We work where your business already lives.
No proprietary portal you'll have to learn. We operate inside the tools you already own, and you keep the keys.
QuickBooks
Bookkeeping & reporting
Gusto
Payroll & benefits
Who we are
Peruvian roots.
Marine Corps discipline.
Heritage
Peru
Service
U.S. Marine Corps
Meliora is Latin for better — the standard we were held to in the Marine Corps, and the one we hold ourselves to now.
We're also a Peruvian-owned firm, which means Spanish-speaking owners get served the way they deserve to be served.
David ContrerasFounder & Business Consultant
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Let's take the books off your desk.
Tell us what you're running and we'll come back with a straight answer on what it takes and what it costs.