We have kept books like yours before.
The accounting fundamentals do not change by industry. Experience does. In these six the chart of accounts, the process and the reporting are already built and tested, so none of the learning happens on your time.
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The tools you already run. We turn all of them.
Why the sector matters
- The same chart of accountsYours starts from a structure already built and tested in your sector, not from a blank template.
- The same close, in the same orderThe month-end process is written down, so it does not depend on who is at the desk that week.
- The same problems, already solvedThe ones that catch your sector out arrive on a schedule. We know which month they land in, and what to do before they do.
The six we know best.
In all six we can run the whole finance department, CFO included. We know the quirks, the standards each one is held to, and the situations that come round every year and catch people out.
Education and EdTech
- Subscription and cohort revenue
- Multi-entity, multi-currency
- Investor and board reporting
IT and software
- Recurring revenue and deferred income
- Contractor payments across borders
- Multi-currency reconciliation
E-commerce and DTC
- Settlements broken into fee components
- Stock valued, counted and forecast
- True unit margin after fees and ads
Construction and contractors
- Job costing and project-level P&L
- WIP and retainage both ways
- Progress and AIA billing
Services and agencies
- Client and project-level profitability
- Invoicing, retainers and collections
- Cash flow forecasting
Hospitality and retail
- Multi-location and segment P&L
- Daily takings reconciled to deposits
- Payroll across sites
Not on the list?
The fundamentals do not change between industries, so the absence of your sector here is not a no.
We have kept books for manufacturers, investment firms, cleaning companies and events businesses without building a page for each.
What we will do on the call is tell you honestly whether we have done your kind of business before. If we have not, we will say so and explain what we would do about it, rather than claiming a specialism we cannot evidence.
We learn your business before we touch the ledger.
Most bookkeeping errors in a specialist business are not accounting errors. They are someone coding a transaction correctly in general terms and wrongly for how that business actually works.
One free call. We will tell you whether we have done this before.
Thirty minutes, nothing to prepare. Bring the part of your finances that nobody else seems to understand.