The whole schedule. No “contact us for pricing”.
Two monthly lines and two kinds of project. Nothing behind it, no discovery process that produces a different number, and no hourly rate anywhere in the firm.
Published fees
Either monthly line can be bought on its own; taking both is a separate conversation and a separate quote, not an addition. Monthly fees are billed monthly and either side can end the arrangement on thirty days’ notice. Project work is quoted as a fixed fee before it starts, never as an estimate that moves.
These services do not require a state licence, and we are not a CPA firm.
Why every monthly line says “starting from”
Because the fee scales with the work. $5,000 a month is the entry point, where you would otherwise employ one staff accountant and part of a clerk. A larger finance function costs more, and we quote that number against your actual books after the read-only look — never as a range we invented before seeing them.
What the first month is
We take over the day-to-day and run the first close ourselves. The assessment gets written while we do the work, not instead of it. No separate fee, and you own the document whatever happens next.
The date guarantee
We publish your close date after we have seen your books, not before. Then we hold ourselves to it. If we miss it and the cause is ours, we refund half that month’s fee.
The carve-out is real and we would rather state it than bury it: if we are waiting on something from you — a bank statement, an approval, a signed contract — that is not our miss, and the date moves. But you will hear about it on the day it becomes likely, in writing, from the person running your account. You will never find out on day nine that day six was never going to happen.
We do not compare ourselves against other firms. We compare against the team you are otherwise paying for.
One comparison, matched to the fee that actually covers that much work: our lowest published fee against the smallest team it replaces. Comparing that fee against a bigger team would read better and be dishonest, and overclaiming here loses the argument with the only readers who matter.
At the entry fee, $5,000 a month
What you would otherwise employ: one staff accountant, plus about half of a clerk’s seat.
$73,750 + $24,625 = $98,375. $98,375 × 1.43 = $140,676.25, shown rounded down to $140,676. Ours is $5,000 × 12 = $60,000. The difference is $80,676 a year and you pay 43% of what the people would cost.
Salary midpoints throughout: Robert Half 2026 Salary Guide, national midpoints. Benefit load: 1.43×, for employer payroll taxes, insurance and paid leave, derived from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Employer Costs for Employee Compensation series. inDinero’s 2026 analysis puts the defensible fully-loaded multiplier at 1.45 – 1.5×, so 1.43× is the conservative end and every comparison here understates itself on purpose.
The ones we get asked
What does $5,000 a month actually buy?
The accounting service at its entry scale: accounts payable, accounts receivable, the month-end close, multi-entity consolidation, capital management and the credit card portal. In headcount terms it replaces roughly one staff accountant plus part of a clerk. These services do not require a state licence, and we are not a CPA firm.
Why does it say “starting from” $5,000?
Because the fee scales with the work, and we are not going to publish a number for your company before we have seen your books. $5,000 a month is the entry point, for a company that would otherwise employ one accountant and part of a clerk. A bigger finance function costs more; we quote it after the read-only look and you are told which number you are before you sign, not after.
Can we buy the controller on its own?
Yes. The fractional controller is $7,000 a month whether or not you take the accounting service. Plenty of companies have a competent bookkeeping team and no senior finance person, and that is exactly the gap this fills.
Why is there no hourly rate?
Because an hourly rate pays us for the close being slow. A fixed fee pays us for it being fast, and it means you can plan the line in your budget. We do not bill for a phone call, an email, or the third version of a schedule.
What happens in the first month?
We take over. From week one we are running payables, receivables, invoicing, cash and cards, and the first month-end close is ours. Alongside doing it we write down what we found: where the close loses its days, which accounts have not reconciled, and what you cannot currently produce that a lender would ask for. You own that document whatever happens next.
Is the assessment charged separately?
No. There is no separate fee for it, no paid assessment product, and no clause crediting one thing against another. Month one is billed at the ordinary monthly fee and the assessment happens inside it.
Do you do budgets and forecasts?
Yes, under business planning support, quoted as a fixed-fee project rather than a monthly line. A budget is a piece of work with a beginning and an end, and charging a retainer for it every month whether or not it is being rebuilt is not honest pricing.
Are you a CPA firm?
No. We are not a CPA firm and we are not a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. The services we sell do not require a state licence. We express no opinion on any financial statement, and nobody may rely on our reports as though we did.
Do you sign our tax return?
No. We do not prepare or sign returns. We give your tax preparer a clean trial balance and the schedules they ask for, which usually shortens their work and their bill.
What if the work turns out to be bigger than the fee?
We review the fee against the work every quarter. If your company has grown into a bigger number we tell you before we bill it, in writing, with the reason. It has to go the other way too, and it does.
Nothing on this page changes on the call.
The schedule is the schedule. The call is for working out which line you need, at what scale, and whether you need us at all.
The call is free and there is no fee for it, ever. If we are not the right shape for you we will say so on the call.