Hire your finance team directly
No accountant in the middle, no headcount on your payroll. Accountforme runs your bookkeeping, payroll and reporting as a complete function — you get clean books, filed on time, and numbers you can actually make decisions on.
Three moments when companies call us
You've outgrown the part-time bookkeeper
It worked at ten invoices a week. At two hundred it doesn't — things get missed, the month-end takes three weeks, and nobody can tell you what margin actually looks like.
You're growing faster than you can hire
New entities, new countries, new payroll. Building a finance team takes six months you don't have, and the first hire is rarely the right one.
Your finance lead is drowning in processing
You hired a controller to control, and they're coding expenses. We take the transactional layer so your expensive person does expensive work.
A complete finance function, not a person
A single monthly fee covers the whole team — a bookkeeper on the daily work, a senior accountant owning the close, and a reviewer checking everything before it reaches you. No sick days, no notice periods, no recruitment fees.
Every day
- Transactions coded and categorised, not left in a suspense account
- Supplier invoices captured, matched and queued for your approval
- Customer invoices raised and chased to your credit policy
- Bank feeds reconciled so your cash position is real, not approximate
Every month
- Books closed on an agreed date — typically working day 5
- P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow statement, reviewed before delivery
- A short written commentary on what moved and why
- Payroll processed and statutory submissions filed on time
Every quarter
- VAT, GST/HST, BAS or sales tax prepared and filed
- Budget versus actual with variance explanations
- Rolling 13-week cash-flow forecast updated
- A call with your engagement lead to review what's working
Every year
- Year-end file prepared for your accountant or auditor
- Lead schedules and supporting evidence collated in advance
- Audit or review queries answered within 24 hours
- Fee band reviewed against actual volumes — up or down
What we don't do
We don't sign your statutory accounts, file your tax return as agent, or give you tax or legal advice — those need a licensed practitioner in your jurisdiction. If you don't have one, we'll happily introduce you to firms we work with. Everything up to that point is ours, and we'll make their job cheaper by handing them a clean file.
Against hiring in-house
The honest version, including the things people forget to count.
| Factor | In-house hire | Accountforme |
|---|---|---|
| Time to productive | 3–6 months | 12 working days |
| Cover for leave / illness | You absorb it | Built into the team |
| Software licences | Your cost | Included |
| Review of the work | Usually nobody | Second reviewer, always |
| Scaling down | Redundancy process | 30 days' notice |
| Skill range | One person's ceiling | Bookkeeper to vCFO |
Industry context we already have
Sector fluency shortens onboarding. These are the verticals where we hold trained staff and ready-built chart-of-accounts templates.
Hospitality & restaurants
Daily sales reconciliation, tips and wage costing, multi-site P&L, POS integrations.
Professional services
WIP and time-based revenue recognition, project profitability, partner drawings.
E-commerce & retail
Marketplace settlement reconciliation, inventory and COGS, multi-channel sales tax.
Construction & trades
Job costing, retentions, CIS and subcontractor compliance, WIP schedules.
Healthcare practices
Insurance receivables, practitioner payouts, multi-location consolidation.
Real estate & property
Property-level P&L, service charge accounting, tenant ledgers, CAM reconciliation.
SaaS & technology
Deferred revenue, ARR and churn schedules, R&D claims support, investor reporting.
Non-profits
Fund and grant accounting, restricted fund tracking, donor and funder reporting.
Not listed? Sector experience shortens onboarding but isn't a prerequisite — we've built chart-of-accounts templates from scratch plenty of times.
What companies ask first
Do we still need an accountant?
For signing statutory accounts and filing tax returns as your agent, yes — that requires a licensed practitioner in your jurisdiction, and we are not that. What changes is what you pay them for. Instead of paying practice rates to clean up twelve months of bookkeeping, you hand them a reconciled file and pay for the compliance sign-off only. Most clients find their accountancy fee falls as a result.
Who owns our data and accounting file?
You do, entirely, at all times. We work inside your subscription — your Xero or QuickBooks account, your bank feeds, under a named user login we can be removed from at any moment. Nothing is held in a proprietary system you would have to extract from, and there is no scenario where leaving us costs you access to your own records.
How do we communicate day to day?
A shared Slack or Teams channel with your named engagement lead, not a ticket portal or a generic inbox. You know who is doing your work and you can message them directly. Queries are batched into a weekly list where they can wait, and raised immediately where they cannot.
What about approving payments?
You keep payment authority, always. We prepare the payment run, match it to invoices and approvals, and hand it to you to release. We never hold banking credentials with transaction rights — it protects you and it protects us.
We're a startup with barely any transactions. Are we too small?
Possibly. Below roughly 50 transactions a month, decent software and an hour of your own time each week is genuinely cheaper than any provider, and we will tell you so on the call. Come back when the volume or the entity count makes it painful — that is when we add value.
Can you work with our existing bookkeeper?
Yes. A common arrangement is that we take the processing volume and your existing person moves to oversight and business-partnering, which is usually the part they are best at and enjoy most. We will design the split with them, not around them.
Let's size your first engagement
A 30-minute call, a written scope, and a fixed monthly price. No obligation, no procurement process, and a two-week paid pilot before you commit to anything longer.