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 […]
Hospitality Bookkeeping: The Monthly Close, Step by Step

There is a particular kind of phone call that lands in a practice around the second week of January. A restaurant client wants to know why December looked so strong on the bank statement and so ordinary in the accounts. Or why gross profit has moved four points with no obvious change in the menu. […]