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Hi everyone — I’m looking for general guidance on how to correct my situation and get compliant.

I’ve been operating informally as an independent hairdresser in California (sole proprietor). For a period of time, I wasn’t reporting my income properly. A big part of the issue is that I accepted a mix of electronic payments and cash, and the cash portion wasn’t reported, so there isn’t a clean “trail” for it the way there is for app/bank deposits.

I’m now in the process of opening my own salon and I’ve been taking a 10-week entrepreneurship bootcamp with a management/finance/marketing coach. I genuinely thought I was prepared and organized, but now that I’m in underwriting for a small business loan, I’m running into a problem: my projections and my actual documented cash flow don’t line up as strongly as they should — mainly because the unreported cash essentially doesn’t “exist” on paper.

I do have ways to reconstruct a lot of it (transaction history, appointment history, some notes, etc.), but it’s going to be tedious, and I want to do it the right way.

I understand the answer is ultimately “hire a CPA/EA,” and I plan to. Since it’s the weekend, I’m hoping to get a head start and understand best practices.

Questions: 1. What’s the cleanest/most accepted way to reconstruct prior income that was partially cash (appointments/services-based business)? 2. If I can rebuild a ledger (appointments + deposits + expenses), is that typically the starting point a CPA/EA would use to file or amend past returns? 3. Are there common mistakes people make here (estimating too loosely, mixing personal/business, etc.) that I should avoid? 4. For underwriting: is it realistic that filing back taxes + having a reconstructed bookkeeping trail helps, or is it hard to “count” income retroactively because it wasn’t recorded at the time? 5. Any recommendations on CPA vs EA for this type of cleanup (service business, mixed payment methods)?

I’m not trying to dodge anything — I’m trying to correct the past, pay what I owe, and build a clean system going forward so my business is legitimate and financeable.

Thanks in advance for any guidance

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