Senior oversight for your in-house or outsourced bookkeeper.
Overview
We supervise your bookkeeper, review monthly entries and reconciliations, enforce GAAP alignment, and make sure your books are decision-ready for tax, audit, and investor conversations.
Whether your bookkeeper is in-house or outsourced, our monthly review cycle catches errors before they compound. We reconcile discrepancies, enforce consistent chart of accounts usage, and convert cash-basis records to accrual where your business requires GAAP or investor-grade standards.
The result is clean monthly financials, clear KPI dashboards, and reporting packages that are ready for tax preparation, audit support, and board or investor conversations without last-minute scrambling.
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What We Deliver
All advisory engagements are supported by the Noesis™ CFO financial analysis platform, our proprietary executive dashboard delivering real-time visibility into valuation, performance metrics, and strategic opportunities.
Request a sample monthly reconciliation and close checklist to see the level of detail and structure we bring to every engagement.
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Monthly close was consistently 3 to 4 weeks late, with unreconciled security deposit liabilities and misclassified capital expenditures. We implemented a monthly review cycle, standardized the chart of accounts across 12 entities, and introduced accrual adjustments for prepaid insurance and property tax.
The team had grown to 40 people with multi-year contracts, but books were still cash basis and revenue recognition was inconsistent. We supervised the outsourced bookkeeper, enforced ASC 606 compliance, and built a deferred revenue schedule that matched contract milestones to recognized revenue.
WIP schedules were manually maintained in spreadsheets, job cost reports were unreliable, and the surety was requesting cleaner financials for bonding capacity increases. We reviewed monthly job costing, aligned overhead allocation to GAAP, and documented the WIP methodology.
FAQ
We review your bookkeeper's monthly work: journal entries, bank and credit card reconciliations, intercompany transactions, and chart of accounts consistency. We catch errors, enforce GAAP alignment, and accrue revenue and expenses where your business requires accrual accounting. You keep your bookkeeper; we add a senior review layer.
Most engagements begin within one to two weeks of kickoff. During onboarding, we review your existing chart of accounts, historical reconciliations, and current close process. First supervised close typically happens within 30 days, with full process documentation and checklist deployment by month two.
Every month you receive reviewed and signed-off financial statements, a reconciliation summary with exception notes, a KPI dashboard, and a close checklist documenting what was reviewed, what was adjusted, and what needs follow-up. All workpapers are organized for tax prep, audit support, or investor review.
Yes. We supervise in-house bookkeepers, offshore teams, and third-party bookkeeping services. Our role is quality assurance and GAAP enforcement, regardless of who handles data entry. We communicate directly with your bookkeeper and loop you in on exceptions or decisions that need owner approval.
Supervision is a fixed monthly retainer based on entity count, transaction volume, and complexity (revenue recognition, WIP, intercompany). We scope the engagement upfront so there are no hourly surprises. Typical engagements range from mid-four figures for a single entity to higher for multi-entity or high-volume operations.
We begin with a diagnostic and cleanup phase. This may span one to three months depending on how far behind the books are. Once historicals are accurate and reconciled, we transition into the standard monthly supervision rhythm. Cleanup is scoped and quoted separately from ongoing supervision.
If your books need senior eyes but you are not ready for a full controller or CFO, let's put supervision in place.
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