This is the company books and the controller who checks them every month.
A controller's job is to make the month true, with every bank and card account reconciled and payroll and sales tax posted where they belong. Bills and invoices are aged and reviewed, and the close package is something the CFO can read without checking it again. Under ten million that job usually does not exist, and the owner finds out when a lender or the IRS asks for numbers that do not tie. We run this layer for our CFO clients, and for owners who only need the close fixed.
Three services, one team, one file.
Reconciled accounts, reviewed aging, and a P and L and balance sheet you can hand to a bank. Not a pile of uncategorized rows with a report on top.
Day to day transactions kept current in QuickBooks Online by our team, reviewed by the controller, so the close is a check and not a rebuild.
Bills entered and paid on schedule, invoices sent and followed up, payroll posted correctly, and 1099s tracked through the year instead of rebuilt in January.
The bank feed has months of uncategorized rows, and every report is wrong until someone works through them. That is a catch up project, and it is the first thing we quote.
The P and L says one thing and the bank balance says another. Usually payroll or transfers are posted as income or expense, and the fix is the reconciliation nobody has done.
Every filing, loan, or tax return starts with a rebuild because nothing was ever closed. A real monthly close ends that, and it is the whole point of the controller layer.
No. The controller reports to the CFO. If you hire us for the CFO work, this layer comes with it. If you only need the close fixed, we quote that on its own.
Yes, as outsourced bookkeeping under the controller. We do not offer bookkeeping without the monthly review, because unreviewed books are how owners end up here in the first place.
Yours. We connect to your QuickBooks Online company, you keep ownership and admin access, and everything we do is visible in your file.
Or does not. Either answer is useful, and we have heard both.