Most companies don't have an accounting problem — they have an accounting latency problem. The books are three months behind, so every decision is made on stale numbers. We run your accounting as a managed function: current books, monthly MIS, reconciled everything. Decisions on fresh numbers, for the first time.
Managed accounting means your entire bookkeeping-to-reporting function runs outside your office but inside your control: transactions recorded daily, banks reconciled monthly, payables and receivables tracked, payroll posted, and the books closed on a fixed monthly calendar — with management reports that tell you what happened and what it means.
The difference between bookkeeping and accounting is the difference between data and information. Recording transactions is necessary; producing a monthly P&L by division, a working-capital dashboard, and variance analysis against budget is what makes the function worth having. We do both, because the first without the second is just expensive data entry.
Growing companies where the founder still approves every payment because nobody trusts the numbers — the classic symptom of books that lag reality. If you can't answer "are we profitable this month" without a week's work, the function is broken.
Companies with an in-house accountant who's excellent at vouchers and lost at MIS — the skill gap between recording and reporting is real, and hiring a full finance team for it is overkill at most sizes. And businesses preparing for diligence, where the first thing buyers test is whether the books reconcile to the bank.
Also: companies paying a full-time finance head to do work a managed service does better and cheaper. The economics flip surprisingly early — usually around the point where you'd hire your second accounts person.
Sales, purchases, expenses, journals — recorded daily from your invoices, bank statements, and expense reports. Not monthly catch-up; daily discipline. The books reflect this week, not last quarter.
Books closed by the 5th of every month: P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, plus the management layer — divisional profitability, expense variances, working-capital movement, debtor ageing. The pack your board should have been getting all along.
Bank, debtor, creditor, intercompany, GST — reconciled monthly, differences investigated and cleared, not carried forward indefinitely. Unreconciled balances are where fraud and error hide; we don't let them accumulate.
Vendor payments scheduled, customer collections tracked, ageing reviewed with you monthly. Working capital is managed, not discovered.
Year-end books your statutory auditor can audit without rebuilding — schedules, supporting, reconciled. Audit fees drop when the books are clean; auditors charge for the mess they have to clean.
Monthly retainer, fixed, scaled to transaction volume and entity count — quoted after we see a month of your actual activity, so the price reflects reality. No per-voucher billing; we want the volume, because volume is where the system proves itself.
Transition takes 3–4 weeks: we take over the books, clean the opening balances, and establish the monthly rhythm. The first MIS pack usually surprises clients — in a good way.
The company that "does accounts at year-end." Eleven months of decisions made blind, then a heroic March cleanup that produces numbers nobody trusts. Monthly close is a discipline; everything else is archaeology.
The "unreconciled" balance that rolls month after month, growing quietly. Every fraud we've seen in SME books hid in an unreconciled account. Reconcile monthly or don't bother reconciling.
Elaborate reports produced and ignored. We design the MIS pack around the three decisions you actually make monthly — and keep it to what gets read. A report nobody reads is a cost, not an asset.
We review your current books, clean opening balances, and map your processes — invoicing, payments, expenses, payroll.
Daily recording, weekly check-ins, monthly close by the 5th. The calendar runs itself after week three.
Monthly MIS pack with our commentary — what moved, why, and what needs attention.
Quarterly review with you: the numbers, the trends, and what the next quarter needs.
Often we work alongside — we take the recording, reconciliations, and reporting; your person handles the office interface. Or we take the whole function. Either model works.
Secure shared systems — your accounting software, bank statements, document uploads. We work in your books, not a parallel universe.
Tally, Zoho Books, QuickBooks — whatever you run. We don't force migrations; we make your system work.
Completely — professional confidentiality plus explicit NDAs. Your books never leave our controlled environment.
Yes — multi-entity accounting with intercompany reconciliations is core work for us. Groups are where managed accounting shines.
Then you're our typical client. The takeover includes a cleanup phase — we've seen worse than yours, and we fix it before we run it.
Two to three weeks including the opening review. We don't touch your live books until the takeover checklist is complete.
Yes — monthly close with reconciliations and a reporting pack. If your books are only 'done' at year-end, they're not done.
We prepare for it — schedules, PBC responses, auditor coordination. We don't audit our own work; your statutory auditor stays independent.
Monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, receivables/payables ageing, and KPI summaries. The pack is agreed upfront — no surprise formats.
Talk to a partner about your situation — no pitch, no obligation. If we're not the right firm for it, we'll tell you that too.
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