Your finance back office, run by a named team

Bookkeeping records the transactions. F&A adds the discipline on top of the same ledger: a close that lands on an agreed date, reconciliations that are actually reviewed, and reporting your board can read. Most providers use bookkeeping as an entry tier and F&A as the upsell without ever saying so.

No, and we sell them separately for that reason. Accounts payable is a high-volume transactional queue with its own economics. F&A is the ledger, the close and the reporting. Many providers fold AP into F&A as one bullet, which makes quotes hard to compare. Ask any provider which one they are actually pricing.

Either a monthly fee per dedicated accountant, or a price per process such as the close or reconciliations. We quote after the free baseline audit, because the number depends on transaction volume, entity count and how much cleanup the ledger needs first.

It stops making sense below roughly a full day of finance work a week. Under that, a local bookkeeper or a part-time hire is cheaper and simpler, and we will tell you so rather than sell you a seat you cannot fill.

APQC benchmarks put the median monthly close at 6.4 days, top performers at 4.8 days and the bottom quartile at 10 or more. Ventana Research found 88 percent of heavily automated teams close within 6 business days, against 40 percent of teams with little automation. We agree a target against your own baseline rather than a generic promise.

It gets treated as a service failure, not an apology. Close days are a reported metric against the baseline, root cause goes in the monthly pack, and remedies are written into the contract before we start. Most providers never mention this.

The profession already does. In AICPA and CPA.com's 2024 client accounting services benchmark, 24 percent of practices use offshore staff. What matters is the controls: named people, scoped access, segregation of duties, and your sign-off on anything that reaches your board or auditor.

Access is scoped by you, granted to named individuals, and revoked through your own leaver process. We contract on standard clauses, name every sub-processor, and work to GDPR, UK GDPR, PIPEDA, the Australian Privacy Principles and Saudi PDPL. ISO 27001 alignment is in progress and SOC 2 Type II is on the roadmap. We state status honestly rather than showing badges we do not hold.

NetSuite, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics, Sage Intacct, Xero, QuickBooks, Zoho Books and Tally. We work inside your system rather than migrating you to ours, so there is no data move and no new licence.

Both, and the contract says which is which. You get named accountants, and you get metrics they are held to: close days, reconciliation review coverage, and reporting delivered on the calendar date. Providers who sell only headcount leave the outcome undefined.

Yes. Multi-entity consolidation, intercompany reconciliation and multi-currency translation are documented during the pilot before they go to steady state. Adding an entity later is a scope change we price, not a surprise.

Six to eight weeks. Roughly two weeks for the baseline audit, then a fixed fee pilot on one entity or one process run in parallel with your team, then steady state. Nothing is switched off until the pilot has been measured.

Most clients move them onto analysis, business partnering and controls, which is what they wanted to do and what the close crowds out. We will tell you honestly what your volume supports rather than promising a headcount number to win the work.

You keep the close checklist, SOPs and documentation we write, because they are yours throughout, and your data never leaves your systems. Transition out support is in the contract from day one rather than negotiated when you want to leave.

Yes, and we prefer it. Start with reconciliations or one entity's close, measure it against the baseline, then decide. No long term commitment until that pilot has run.