This is what lands on your desk.
Most firms describe their deliverable. Here is ours, in full, so you can decide whether it is worth $5,000 a month before you speak to anyone.
Illustrative only. The company below does not exist and every figure on this page was invented to show the format. Nothing here is a real client, a real result, or a record of anything. What is real is the arithmetic: every total on this page is re-added by a script when the site is built, and the build refuses to publish if one of them does not foot.
These services do not require a state licence, and we are not a CPA firm.
Six numbers, on the same day every month
Not a portal you have to log into. A page at the front of the package that answers the questions a board asks first.
- Close completed
- Day 6Against a calendar published in advance.
- Six months earlier
- Day 22Where this company started.
- Accounts reconciled
- 41 of 41Working papers kept, not recreated on request.
- Unexplained variances
- 0Every movement has a cause and an owner against it.
- Entities consolidated
- 12Intercompany eliminated and documented.
- Cash runway
- 96 daysFrom the thirteen-week forecast, tied to the bank.
The date is the product
A close that lands on a day you chose is worth more than a close that is merely accurate, because you can plan a board meeting around it.
A profit and loss that foots
Management reports, prepared from what management gives us. No opinion is attached to them and nobody may rely on them as though one were — but every subtotal adds up and every line has a working paper behind it.
$1,842,000 + $318,500 = $2,160,500. $864,200 + $197,300 + $61,400 = $1,122,900. $2,160,500 − $1,122,900 = $1,037,600, a gross margin of 48.0%. $262,900 + $318,700 + $205,400 = $787,000. $1,037,600 − $787,000 = $250,600, an operating margin of 11.6%.
The package also carries a balance sheet, a cash flow, a thirteen-week cash forecast, the reconciliation working papers, and a one-page variance note that names a cause and an owner for every movement worth explaining.
Published in advance, so you can hold us to it
- Day 1Cut-off confirmed, cash posted, card feeds pulled.
- Day 2Bank, card and payroll reconciliations complete.
- Day 3Accruals, prepaids, revenue cut-off and fixed assets.
- Day 4Intercompany matched and eliminated across all entities.
- Day 5Consolidated trial balance reviewed and signed off by name.
- Day 6Package delivered: P&L, balance sheet, cash, variance notes.
Send us last month, and we will send this back about your company.
Email us your last close calendar and your last month-end P&L. Within five business days we will send you, free, where your close actually loses its days, which accounts are not reconciling, and the three things we would change first. In writing, with the arithmetic attached.
You keep what we send whatever happens next, and there is no fee for it. We are not going to put you on a mailing list, because we do not have one. If your books are in good shape we will tell you that and you will have spent nothing to find out.
Over time we may publish anonymised, aggregate observations from these reviews — the median day a close lands, the causes that recur. Never your name, never your figures, and never anything that could identify you. If you would rather we left your review out of even that, say so in the email and we will.