Bookkeeping tells you what happened. Reporting tells you what it means, what is coming, and which parts of the business are carrying the rest. It is the difference between having the data and being able to use it.
Everything in this category sits on top of a reconciled record. That is not a formality. A forecast built on a file that has not been reconciled is a confident-sounding guess, and a budget compared against unreliable actuals produces variances that tell you nothing.
Most clients start here after the books are current, and it is usually the point at which the relationship changes. The conversation stops being about catching up and starts being about what to do next.
Seven pieces of work. Some clients take a single report, most build up to a package over time.
A single package each month with the statements, the comparison to prior periods, and a short plain-language read on what moved and why. Built to be opened and understood in ten minutes, not filed away unread.
Learn more about this serviceProfit on paper and money in the account are two different things, and the gap is where good businesses get into trouble. We map where cash actually goes and build a forward view so you can see the tight weeks before you are standing in them.
Learn more about this serviceA budget built from your own history rather than a template. We work through what the coming year realistically looks like by month, so the number you are steering toward is one you had a hand in setting.
Learn more about this serviceEach period we put the plan and the result side by side and talk through the variances. This is the habit that changes how owners decide, because it turns a budget from a document you wrote in January into something you use in June.
Learn more about this serviceEvery business runs on four or five numbers that matter more than the rest. We work out which ones yours are, then track them in one view you can check without opening the accounting file.
Learn more about this serviceRevenue by job is easy. Profit by job is where the answer lives. We set up costing so labor, materials and overhead land against the right work, and you can see which jobs paid and which ones only looked like they did.
Learn more about this serviceWhen a bank, a lender or an investor asks for compiled statements, they are asking whether your numbers hold together. We prepare them from books that have already been reconciled, so the answer is yes and the conversation moves on to your business.
Learn more about this serviceThe most common failure in financial reporting is not accuracy, it is volume. A twenty-page pack lands each month, nobody has an hour spare, and the whole exercise quietly becomes a cost with no return.
So the standard we hold ourselves to is whether an owner reads it. Short, consistent, with the important movement on the first page and a plain-language read on what changed. If a report stops earning its place we will say so rather than keep producing it.
See what the monthly package containsStart from the question you keep asking yourself about the business, and we will work out which report answers it.
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