Bookkeeping Catch-Up Work: Rescuing a Client Ledger Before Year-End
Introduction It’s late October. A practice manager opens a client’s Xero file for the first time since spring. The bank shows fourteen months of unreconciled transactions and the suspense account holds £38,000. The aged creditors report lists £21,000 of bills that were paid a year ago. Then the client sends a message asking whether the […]
Outsourced Accounting for Startups: Building a Finance Function Before You Can Fund One
Introduction Eighteen months after incorporation, a SaaS founder sits down with an investor’s due diligence team to close a £1.5m seed round. The product is strong and the revenue chart points the right way. Then the questions start. Why are there 140 entries in the director’s loan account? Which of these card payments were for […]