Amri Bookkeeping & Accounting

Amri Bookkeeping & Accounting provides full-service bookkeeping and accounting for small businesses across Southern Utah. The practice is led by Mandie Hymer, who holds a Master of Accountancy (MAcc) and an MBA, with over ten years of real-world experience in the field.

Services

Amri Bookkeeping offers monthly bookkeeping and reconciliation, transaction categorization, payroll management, sales tax and quarterly filings, accounts payable and accounts receivable, financial reports including profit-and-loss statements and balance sheets, catch-up and cleanup bookkeeping for businesses behind on their books, automation and workflow setup, and receipt and document management. The practice also supports tax-related work alongside the standard bookkeeping engagement.

Why Bookkeeping Matters for Southern Utah Small Businesses

Southern Utah's economy runs heavily on small operators — contractors, trades businesses, hospitality, short-term rental managers, restaurants, retail boutiques, professional services, and seasonal tourism-adjacent companies. Most of these businesses are too small to justify a full-time in-house accountant, but too operationally complex to leave the books to whoever has time on a Friday afternoon. The result, year after year, is the same pattern: shoebox receipts, mismatched bank reconciliations, payroll that may or may not have been handled correctly, sales tax filings that drift past their due dates, and a tax preparer who sees the books for the first time at the end of January and has to make heroic assumptions to file on time.

A dedicated bookkeeper closes that gap. Clean books mean accurate financial statements, accurate financial statements mean tax filings that aren't a guessing game, and the combination means business owners can actually use their numbers to make pricing, hiring, and cash-flow decisions during the year rather than discovering surprises at year-end.

Cleanup and Catch-Up Work

A meaningful share of bookkeeping engagements in this region start with a cleanup project — six, twelve, or twenty-four months of transactions that need to be reconciled, categorized, and tied back to bank statements before regular monthly bookkeeping can begin. This work is detail-intensive and benefits from someone with formal accounting training rather than a part-time admin. Amri Bookkeeping handles cleanup and catch-up engagements specifically and uses them as the on-ramp to ongoing monthly support.

Sales Tax in Utah

Utah small businesses face sales tax obligations that are often more complex than they appear. The combined state and local rate varies by jurisdiction, and businesses with customers across multiple Utah counties — common for service businesses operating between St. George, Hurricane, Cedar City, and Washington — need to source the correct rate to each transaction. Quarterly filings, marketplace facilitator rules for businesses that sell on Etsy, Amazon, or Shopify, and the difference between taxable services and exempt services all benefit from someone tracking them month-to-month rather than reconstructing them at filing time.

Cloud-Based, Remote-Friendly

Modern bookkeeping is largely cloud-based, with bank feeds, receipt-capture apps, and document portals replacing the old shoebox-and-quarterly-meeting model. This makes a remote bookkeeping engagement work just as well as an in-person one for small businesses across the Southern Utah service area. Document handoff, payroll runs, and month-end reviews can all happen securely without a physical office visit.

Get In Touch

For small businesses in St. George and across Southern Utah looking to get their books current, set up a sustainable monthly process, or hand off payroll and sales tax filings, Amri Bookkeeping is reachable by phone, email, or through the social channels below.