A year ago this month my cousin referred me to one of my first big clients when I decided to go out on my own. This is a construction company that has been in business for a number of years but never had any formal bookkeeping process setup, etc. As the business was growing, they hired me to try and help them get organized and I will admit, it has been a difficult task. When we first engaged to do business, they were going to get me their 2020 numbers and I was going to begin bookkeeping on 1/1/21. Well we ended up having a little bit of a difficult discussion a couple months later when they still hadn't given me their 2020 numbers and were upset that they were paying someone to handle their accounting for them (again, our conversations repeatedly were I begin in 2021 and my cousin was there for all of the beginning discussions). Seeing where this was going and knowing they were not happy I did what I could to salvage the situation and pulled together their 2020 numbers and did the best I could with them to get them filed with what we have. I believe that this client has income sources that they are not telling me about. Admittingly, a lot of people have small sources of income for cash, etc. I understand that. But I feel like he's always trying something new or looking at some exotic crypto currency investment, etc. One of his smaller LLC's that I help do the books for had a random deposit of $5,000 in it a month ago. I asked the client where this came from because I didn't see that it was transferred from his main business and him and his "manager" said something jokingly to the extent of "it just was" or something like. On top of this, the client gets a $1,000,000 SBA loan to start a trucking company. I feel like I've had enough but man as a smaller growing practice I'll surely miss the monthly fee!