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EDUCATION AND EDTECH
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Education and EdTech
Money arrives before it is earned, across cohorts, subscriptions and hybrid models, usually in more than one currency and more than one company.
WHO THIS IS FOR
Online schools, courses, tutoring
Subscription and cohort revenue · Multi-entity, multi-currency · Investor and board reporting
Book a free 30-min callWhat we already know about books like yours
Revenue collected in one term and earned across two
Refunds and withdrawals part-way through a cohort
A second entity opened for a new market, mid-year
An investor asking for numbers the ledger was never set up to produce
What that means we do
Every month
- Subscription and cohort revenue recognised as it is earned
- Multi-entity books consolidated, inter-company eliminated at close
- Investor and board reporting on the same cycle every month
- Multi-currency revaluation and translation handled at close
The tools we work in
- QuickBooks
- Xero
- Stripe
- Multi-currency
- Class tracking
WHAT IT COSTS
Your sector changes the work, not the price list.
The same three levels, priced off your transaction volume. Sector complexity shows up in which level you need, not in a surcharge for being in it.
See the full pricing and estimate yoursLEVEL 1 · BooksFrom $410 a month. Bookkeeping and monthly reporting
LEVEL 2 · Finance DepartmentFrom $730 a month. Bookkeeping plus the whole day-to-day operation
LEVEL 3 · Finance Department and CFOFrom $990 a month. The whole operation plus strategic advice
FROM THE LIBRARY
What we have published on it.
Work we have done in this sector, and writing on the problems it runs into.
CASE STUDY
Five-plus years as the embedded finance + operations team.Lumiere runs a mentor and partner network at scale. We have been their standing finance and operations team for over five years — bookkeeping, partner and mentor management, payroll, and reporting — currently at a 600-hour-per-month contracted capacity.
CASE STUDY
From a founder's spreadsheet to investor-ready accounts.A UK EdTech matching students with elite tutors. We started in 2022 with bookkeeping setup; today we run their close, financial models, and investor reports as their outsourced finance function.
Everything we have written
THE OTHER FIVE
Not quite your sector?
The playbook is built and tested in six. If none of them is you, the accounting fundamentals still do not change — say so on the call and we will tell you straight whether we have done it before.
SECTORIT and softwareSaaS, software firms, IT services — Recurring revenue and deferred income · Contractor payments across borders · Multi-currency reconciliationSECTORE-commerce and DTCAmazon, Shopify, multi-channel — Settlements broken into fee components · Stock valued, counted and forecast · True unit margin after fees and adsSECTORConstruction and contractorsCertified payroll supported — Job costing and project-level P&L · WIP and retainage both ways · Progress and AIA billingSECTORServices and agenciesAgencies, consultancies, professional firms — Client and project-level profitability · Invoicing, retainers and collections · Cash flow forecastingSECTORHospitality and retailMulti-site operators — Multi-location and segment P&L · Daily takings reconciled to deposits · Payroll across sites
All six sectors