Accounting and tax support for U.S. businesses where growth has made basic bookkeeping insufficient

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--- Timing and Revenue complexity ---

Subscription and recurring revenue businesses

Subscription models look simple until prepayments, annual plans, churn, refunds, upgrades, and deferred revenue enter the picture. Cash-basis accounting routinely overstates profit and leads to poor decisions.

We work with subscription and recurring revenue businesses to:

• Set up clean deferred revenue and accruals

• Align revenue recognition with delivery

• Produce reporting that reflects real performance

• Support growth, pricing, and retention decisions

This includes SaaS, memberships, retainers, and prepaid service models.

Deferred revenue, accruals, and revenue timing

Many U.S. businesses report strong profits while struggling with cash, or the opposite. This often comes down to poor handling of deferred revenue, accruals, and timing differences between when cash is received and when revenue is actually earned.

We support businesses where advance billing, retainers, long-term contracts, or staged delivery create complexity in revenue recognition. Our work focuses on aligning revenue, costs, and delivery so reported profit reflects economic reality, not just bank balances.

This includes businesses with prepaid services, annual contracts, project-based work, and mixed cash and accrual models.

--- Operating and settlement complexity ---

Technology, SaaS, and product-led businesses

Technology and product-led businesses often reach accounting complexity earlier than expected.

We support businesses where development costs, internal-use software, and product investment create risk around capitalization, expensing, and amortization. Decisions in this area have a direct impact on reported profitability, EBITDA, and valuation.

Our work focuses on establishing clear and defensible capitalization policies, consistent treatment of development costs, and reporting that aligns product investment with revenue generation and product lifecycle.

This includes technology-led businesses, platforms, marketplaces, and product-driven service firms.

E-commerce and platform sellers

E-commerce businesses often struggle because payouts are treated as sales. Platform fees, refunds, chargebacks, reserves, and settlement timing distort revenue and margins when books are not designed properly.

We support online sellers and platform-based businesses with proper gross vs net revenue treatment, Clearing and settlement account structures, inventory and cost of sales logic, margin and cash flow reporting that actually reconciles

This includes Shopify, WooCommerce, marketplaces, and direct-to-consumer brands.

--- Structure and ownership complexity ---

Multi-entity and intercompany accounting

As businesses grow, it is common to end up with multiple entities, shared teams, and costs that move between companies. Without clear intercompany logic, financial reporting becomes unreliable and difficult to explain to investors, lenders, or buyers.

We support multi-entity U.S. businesses with intercompany accounting structures that are consistent, defensible, and scalable. This includes cost sharing, management charges, intercompany balances, and reporting that rolls up cleanly without manual workarounds.

This work is often critical for businesses preparing for growth, external funding, or a future transaction.

Accounting for non-US owners operating foreign businesses

Many non-US owners operate businesses in countries where they do not live or manage day-to-day activity. This often creates uncertainty in financial reporting.

We support businesses where owner funding, expense payments and cash movements occur across borders, and where accounting systems have not been designed to reflect that reality. Our work focuses on ensuring clear separation between business activity and owner activity, consistent treatment of cross-border cash flows, and financial statements that accurately reflect performance regardless of where owners are based.

This includes internationally owned businesses with non-resident founders, multi-currency operations, and management structures that operate across countries.

--- How we work ---

We focus on accrual-based accounting, control accounts, reconciliation discipline, and decision-grade reporting. Our work is systems-led and built for businesses that need reliable numbers to scale, raise capital, or operate internationally.

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