The work we do at Geiger Tax & Accounting — bookkeeping, accounting, and tax preparation for small businesses across Long Island and the country — runs almost entirely inside QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise. After 25+ years of practice, we’ve never found a tool better suited to the kinds of multi-entity, multi-file work our clients actually do: contractors, retailers, professional services firms, real-estate operators, families with multiple LLCs.
The historical problem was access. QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise is a native Windows application. Powerful and fast — but tied to whichever machine it’s installed on. When the practice grew, when clients moved between offices, when the bookkeepers we worked with needed to share a file, the friction added up.
Our solution is Outpost Cloud — the shared QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment we built and operate alongside the tax practice. It’s where our clients’ books live. It’s where our affiliated bookkeepers operate. It’s how we keep the entire engagement — books, advisory, and tax — consolidated under one roof, on one license, on infrastructure we manage.
How the relationship works
There are two ways our clients and affiliated bookkeepers end up working inside Outpost Cloud:
If you’re a small business owner
When you become a Geiger Tax client, your books are maintained inside the shared QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment. That means consolidated reporting across your entities, the full power of Desktop Enterprise (industry editions, advanced inventory, 200+ built-in reports), and one practice handling your books and your tax under the same roof. The cloud infrastructure is part of how we run the engagement — not something you have to source, configure, or maintain on your own.
If you’re an independent bookkeeper
We work with a network of independent bookkeepers who run their own practices but share the QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise environment we built. Two relationship types are available: an Affiliated Bookkeeper arrangement, where you operate full-time inside the shared environment with Geiger Tax serving as the back-office tax resource for your clients; or a lighter-touch Referral Partner relationship. Your clients stay yours. The infrastructure stops being your problem. Details are at outpostcloud.io/partners.
The practical details
Outpost Cloud isn’t a hosting service we sell off the shelf. It’s the practice infrastructure we built for ourselves, opened up to the clients we serve and the bookkeepers we work alongside. The pricing, technical setup, and full breakdown of what’s included — QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Gold license, Intuit-authorized cloud hosting via Ace Cloud, daily backups, payroll, multi-user access — are all documented at outpostcloud.io.
If you’re an owner or a bookkeeper considering whether the fit is there, the next step is the same either way: a 15-minute conversation to walk through your situation.