✶Woodbury, MN · Serving the Twin Cities & Beyond
Accounting so the show can go on.
CPA-backed bookkeeping, payroll, and full CFO options for creatives, contractors, and growing teams. You run the show. Balance keeps the books.
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Balance, PLLC is a Woodbury, Minnesota accounting firm providing CPA-backed bookkeeping, payroll, accounts payable, and fractional CFO services for creative businesses, game publishers, contractors, and growing teams across the Twin Cities and nationwide, with flat monthly rates starting at $300.
Creatives and small business owners already wear too many hats. Bookkeeping is the one Pam Van Muijen actually loves wearing. While you do whatever it is you do best, Balance takes care of the numbers and keeps your act center stage. One flat monthly rate, all systems integrated, all services aligned. No juggling vendors, no reconciling handoffs, no hourly-billing stage fright.
✶The Lineup
Every act your back office needs.
Bookkeeping
From $300/moClean, tax-ready books on cash or accrual basis, with receipt management and real reporting.
Learn more →Full Back Office
From $1250/moBookkeeping, payroll, AP, and HR under one flat rate. One team, zero vendor juggling.
Learn more →Fractional CFO
From $1500/moForecasting, KPI dashboards, and strategic finance leadership without the executive salary.
Learn more →Payroll & HR
From $300/moFrom solo S-corp owner payroll to 30+ employee, multi-state teams with benefits.
Learn more →Accounts Payable
From $75/runBills coded, approved, and paid on time. Vendors stay happy, you stay out of the inbox.
Learn more →Royalties & Licensing
CustomRoyalty splits, Kickstarter reward tiers, and IP licensing accounting most firms have never seen.
Learn more →✶Who We Serve
Built for the arts & geek economy.
Whether you are a comic book store, a tattoo parlor, a circus, a tabletop game publisher, or just really, really into Star Wars, we get each other. Balance handles the accounting puzzles most firms have never seen: royalty models, Kickstarter reward tiers, convention sales tax across ten states, and the famous shoebox full of receipts.
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✶Love From Clients
The reviews are in.
I have worked with Balance PLLC from the very first steps of my own LLC in 2015. I have come to rely upon Pam’s expert information, advice, and abilities in making sure my business runs as smoothly as possible. I strongly recommend her to others who want a personal touch and hands-on-approach in their accounting needs.
Jeremy L. Nienow, PhD., RPA
Owner and Principal, Nienow Cultural Consultants LLC
I am artist not a bookkeeper. Pam came in, organized my shoebox, and helped turn my business into an organized system. She has these great apps and tracking systems that make my crazy busy schedule super easy to record and send to her with a click of a button. I couldn’t have grown my business so fast without the help of Pam. I went from spending hours a week doing my own books and now I can focus on building my business instead.
Nikki Martin
Owner, Minneapolis Tattoo Shops
✶No Mystery Pricing
Know your number before we ever talk.
Transparency matters here. Every rate is published, and the interactive service estimator builds a ballpark monthly quote from your real transaction volume, team size, and needs in about two minutes.
Try the Service Estimator✶Good Questions
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Balance, PLLC do?
Balance, PLLC is a Woodbury, Minnesota accounting firm offering CPA-backed bookkeeping, payroll and HR, accounts payable, royalty and licensing accounting, and fractional CFO services. Everything runs on one flat monthly rate with all systems integrated, so there are no surprise hourly bills.
Who does Balance work with?
Balance specializes in creative businesses and the arts and geek communities: tabletop game publishers, tattoo studios, theaters, artists, and freelancers, plus contractors and growing service teams. Clients are based across Woodbury, St. Paul, Minneapolis, and the Twin Cities metro, with remote clients nationwide.
How much does bookkeeping cost?
Bookkeeping plans start at $300 per month for solopreneurs and scale to $1200 per month for complex accrual clients. Full back-office packages combining bookkeeping, payroll, and accounts payable run from $1250 to $3500 per month. The service estimator gives an instant ballpark in about two minutes.
Is Balance a CPA firm?
Balance is a PLLC led by Pam Van Muijen, an accounting professional with over 20 years of experience from bookkeeping through CFO-level roles, with CPA support on staff. Every plan delivers tax-ready financials your tax preparer will love.
Do you only work with Minnesota businesses?
No. Balance is based in Woodbury and loves visiting Twin Cities clients on site, but works with clients across the country through cloud tools like Xero, QuickBooks Online, Hubdoc, Gusto, and Bill.com.
That's the ticket.
Ready to get this show on the road? Schedule a free consultation and find out what balanced books feel like.