Accounting that
closes on time and
survives a second look.

Numbers are only
useful when they are early.

A company closing in week six is always deciding on stale information. Six weeks is long enough for a margin slip to become a quarter, for a receivable to become a write-off, and for a covenant to be breached before anyone can see it coming. The books are rarely wrong. They are simply late, and late compounds.

We take the whole cycle and close by the tenth business day, with a controller reviewing the package before it is issued. That review is the step most outsourced arrangements skip, and it is why their statements so often need rebuilding before a bank will accept them.

Above the close sits judgment: the forecast, the covenant model, the pricing question, the board pack. Some companies need that two days a month and some need it two days a week. Because the same firm produces the numbers, the CFO work does not begin with three weeks establishing whether the numbers are true.

Where independence requires it, these services stay separate. We cannot both keep a company’s books and audit them, and we will tell you that at the first meeting rather than halfway through an engagement letter.