Foundations
Books you can build decisions on.
We take bookkeeping off your desk and run it on a fixed monthly rhythm: transactions categorised weekly, every account reconciled, and a clean set of financial statements in your inbox by the tenth business day.
At a glance
Sample pricing
Starting from
$1,250 / month
Cadence
Weekly processing, monthly close
Best for
Companies from roughly $500k to $10M in revenue that want the books done properly without hiring in-house.
Deliverables
Monthly P&L, balance sheet and cash flow
Reconciliation report for every account
Management summary in plain English
Year-end package for your tax preparer
The problem
Books that are "mostly right" cost more than books that are right.
Most founders do not need to be told their books are behind — they already know. The cost shows up later: a tax return prepared from unreconciled accounts, a lender asking questions you cannot answer, or a month where cash was lower than the bank balance suggested because three payments had not cleared.
The fix is not heroics in April. It is a monthly rhythm that never slips, owned by someone whose only job is to keep it.
The outcome
What changes when the close is on time
01
You know where you stand by the tenth
Statements land on a fixed date, so planning happens on real numbers instead of estimates.
02
Tax season becomes a handover, not a project
Your preparer receives reconciled books and a tidy year-end package. No shoebox, no scramble.
03
Small errors stop compounding
Duplicate vendor payments, uncollected invoices and miscategorised spend are caught in the month they happen.
What is included
Everything in the engagement.
Scope is agreed in writing before work starts. Add or remove items as your business changes.
Weekly transaction categorisation using a chart of accounts designed for your business
Bank, credit card and payment-processor reconciliations every month
Accounts payable and receivable tracking, with an ageing report
Payroll journal entries and benefits accruals (payroll itself stays with your provider)
Sales-tax / GST / VAT tracking, configured for your jurisdictions
A documented month-end close checklist, run the same way every month
Monthly financial statements plus a one-page management summary
A year-end package for your tax preparer, or for our tax team where engaged
Ideal client
Who this is for — and who it is not.
A good fit
Founder-led companies with 5 to 80 staff
Roughly 100 to 1,500 transactions a month
Businesses that have outgrown a part-time bookkeeper or a founder doing it at night
Probably not yet
Companies that only need a one-off clean-up (see Catch-up & clean-up)
Businesses needing a full-time in-house finance team today
How it works
From first call to a working rhythm.
01
Discovery call
Thirty minutes on your entities, systems, volume and what "good" looks like for you. We quote a flat monthly fee within two business days.
02
Onboarding and clean-up
We connect your accounts, tidy the chart of accounts and reconcile back to your last clean period — usually two to four weeks.
03
The monthly rhythm
Categorisation each week, questions batched into one message, close completed by the tenth business day.
04
Quarterly review
A short call to walk through trends, flag anything unusual and adjust scope as you grow.
Client story
SA
Sam Achebe
Owner,
Brightmoor Roasters
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FAQ
Questions about bookkeeping and the monthly close.
We work in the mainstream cloud platforms and will recommend one if you are choosing. Edit this answer to name the tools your firm supports.
No. Payroll stays with your provider; we record the entries, reconcile the liabilities and make sure the numbers tie out.
We start with a fixed-fee catch-up project and move you onto the monthly service once you are current.
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