Your bookkeeper records what happened. Your CPA keeps you filed. Neither of them was hired to tell you what to do next, so you have been doing that part yourself. We take that job on, monthly. It works either way round: we can sit on top of the people you already have, or run the whole back office.
If three of these are true, you are doing a job nobody was hired for.
Your bookkeeper
Records what already happened
Keep them. If they are doing this well, replacing them costs you money and history.
Your CPA
Keeps you filed and compliant
Keep them too. We are not a public accounting firm and we do not file returns. Your CPA stays your CPA.
The third job, and where we come in
Tells you what to do next
Today this job is being done by you, or by your COO, in the hours after everything else.
Not a report. A person, on a schedule, whose job is the decisions.
Not to redo it. To see what moved, what it cost, and what it says about the next quarter. Where something looks wrong we raise it with whoever keeps the books, and they fix it.
A rolling view of revenue, cost and cash, updated against what really happened, so the number you make decisions on is this month's and not the one from the model you built in January.
The hire, the price change, the new location, the piece of equipment, the contract with sixty day terms. You get the two or three outcomes and what has to be true for each one.
Board packs, bank and lender requests, investor updates, diligence lists. Built once, kept current, so a request does not turn into a weekend.
The part that does not fit in a document. What we would do, what we would wait on, and what is going to become a problem in two quarters if nothing changes.
We get read access to the accounting file and the reports. We do not take the work off them and we do not bill you for it twice.
We are not a public accounting firm. Returns, tax positions and anything that needs a licence stay with them. We make their January easier by handing over numbers that are already closed and explained.
With your say-so, directly. Most of the friction in a finance function is three people who never speak to each other, and you in the middle relaying it.
If the bookkeeping does turn out to be the weak part, we can take that on as well. Plenty of clients start here and never need to.
Hand the decisions to someone whose job they are. Keep whoever you already have, or let us take the whole back office. We reply the same day, or by the next business day.