Bookkeeping · Multi-entity close · Migrations

We close your books on a fixed date. Every month.

Whether you're one company on QuickBooks Online or four entities consolidated by hand, the close stops being your problem. Same file, same login, better books.

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Plans from $300/month. No lock-in past the first quarter.

4 daysTarget close, multi-entity
$300+Starting monthly fee
1 weekTo first delivered close
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Which one are you?

Three different problems, three different prices. Pick the one that sounds like your month-end and skip the rest of the page.

One entity · From $300/mo

My books are behind and I need them clean

Single company on QuickBooks. Transactions uncategorised, reconciliations overdue, and you need a P&L you can actually show someone.

See the Books plan 2–3 entities · From $2,500/mo

My close takes two weeks and I want it back

Consolidation lives in one spreadsheet, the board pack is always late, and your controller spends month-end reconciling instead of thinking.

See Bridge and Control 4+ entities · Scoped per project

QuickBooks itself is the bottleneck

Intercompany eliminations by hand, revenue recognition outside the ledger, an auditor asking about manual journals. The system has to change.

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The economics

What a slow close actually costs

Most companies treat a long close as an inconvenience. It isn't — it's a compounding tax on decision quality, and it's measurable. Here's the arithmetic nobody runs.

45%

Of the month spent looking backwards

A fourteen-day close means your finance team is reporting on the past for most of every month. There is no capacity left for forecasting.

10 wks

Of controller time per year

Four extra close days a month is roughly ten working weeks annually — a quarter of a controller's salary spent on reconciliation instead of judgement.

1 file

Between you and your numbers

Multi-entity consolidation almost always runs through a single spreadsheet with a single author. When they resign, your reporting stops.

$150k

To hire the problem away

A US controller costs $130,000 to $180,000 fully loaded, takes holiday, and can't cover every skill. That's the bar an outsourced team has to beat.

Pricing

Fixed monthly fees. No hourly billing.

You're buying closed books on a date, not hours worked. Every plan is quoted after a short ledger review so the number doesn't move later.

Books

$300 – $1,000 / month

One entity, straightforward volume. The plan most small businesses actually need.

  • Transaction categorisation and coding
  • Bank, card and loan reconciliations
  • AR and AP tracking, chasing on request
  • Monthly P&L and balance sheet by the 10th
  • Year-end pack ready for your CPA
  • Cleanup of prior periods, quoted separately
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Most chosen

Bridge

From $2,500 / month

Two to three entities where the close has stretched past ten days.

  • Close delivered in five business days
  • Multi-entity consolidation, delivered finished
  • Intercompany reconciliation and eliminations
  • Board-ready P&L, balance sheet, cash flow
  • Your close documented so it survives a resignation
  • Everything in Books, included
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Control

From $5,000 / month

Real complexity, but not a full-time controller salary.

  • Everything in Bridge, close in four days
  • A named controller on every review call
  • Revenue recognition schedules reconciled to the GL
  • Departmental, location and project reporting
  • Audit preparation and auditor liaison
  • Monthly review with your CEO or board
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Price moves with entity count, transaction volume and the condition of your chart of accounts — nothing else.

Migrations & implementation

When the ledger is the problem

At four or more entities with real intercompany activity, a better-run close only buys you a year. The structure has to change. We scope and deliver Sage Intacct and NetSuite migrations — and we'll tell you if you're not ready yet.

  • Full ledger and chart of accounts audit before anything is quoted
  • Dimensional model designed and signed off before data moves
  • Opening trial balance reconciled to the penny at cutover
  • Your top reports rebuilt and checked against the old system
  • We sit through your first two closes on the new platform
  • Fixed project fee, not time and materials

Tell us what you're working with

Five fields. We reply within one business day with a scoping call slot or an honest "not yet."

We only use this to reply to you. No newsletter, no sequence, no sharing with anyone.

Onboarding

What the first month looks like

Books clients are usually live inside a week. Bridge and Control take three to four, and you keep running your close throughout — nothing is at risk.

1

Ledger audit

We read your file and give you a written list of what's broken and what it's costing in close days. Yours to keep either way.

2

Cleanup

Duplicate vendors, stale AR, unreconciled accounts, orphaned journals. The unglamorous work that makes every later close faster.

3

Documentation

Your close becomes a checklist with owners and dates instead of knowledge living in one person's head.

4

First close together

We run it alongside your team, then take it over completely from the following period.

Straight answers

When you shouldn't hire us

We turn work away when a retainer would be the wrong purchase. Better you know now than after a discovery call.

You need tax filing and nothing else
Hire a CPA. We prepare the year-end pack your CPA works from, but we don't file returns.
Single entity, books already clean, close under five days
You don't need us. Keep doing what you're doing and spend the money elsewhere.
You need inventory, manufacturing or warehouse management
QuickBooks and Sage Intacct are both wrong for you. You want NetSuite, and we'll say so before you spend anything.
You want the cheapest hourly rate available
We price by outcome, not by hour. There are better-value options for you than us.
Your close is slow because data arrives late from operations
That's an operations problem. Outsourcing finance won't fix it and we'd rather tell you upfront.
FAQ

Questions we get on the first call

How much does a QuickBooks accountant cost?

Single-entity bookkeeping and monthly close runs $300 to $1,000 a month depending on transaction volume and how many bank and card accounts need reconciling. Multi-entity work where an accountant owns the consolidation and reporting runs $2,500 to $7,500. The gap isn't effort — it's scope. The second is controllership, not bookkeeping.

Do you work with small businesses?

Yes. Books starts at $300 a month for one entity with straightforward volume: categorisation, bank and card reconciliation, AR and AP tracking, and a P&L and balance sheet delivered by the tenth. If your books are months behind, we quote the cleanup separately so it doesn't inflate your ongoing fee forever.

Do we have to leave QuickBooks to work with you?

No, and most clients don't. We work inside your existing file. Typically people stay on QuickBooks another twelve to twenty-four months, and plenty never move at all. We'll tell you when the ledger rather than the team has become the constraint.

Can a QuickBooks accountant handle multi-entity consolidation?

QuickBooks has no native consolidation across separate company files, so it always gets built outside the system — usually in Excel. A good accountant can do this, but the spreadsheet becomes a single point of failure the moment they leave. We build it, document it, and hand you a finished pack rather than a file you maintain.

When should we move off QuickBooks entirely?

When the structure of the ledger is the problem, not the capacity of the team. In practice that's four or more entities with real intercompany activity, revenue recognition that can't live in QuickBooks, or an audit that flagged manual journal volume. Below that, a better-run close solves the same pain for a fraction of a migration's cost.

Isn't it cheaper to hire someone in-house?

A US-based controller costs $130,000 to $180,000 fully loaded, takes holiday, resigns, and can't cover every skill you need. Control is roughly a third of that with no single point of failure. Below about $60,000 of annual finance cost, hiring is usually the better decision and we'll say so.

How quickly can you start?

Books clients are usually live within a week. Bridge and Control take three to four weeks — ledger audit in week one, cleanup and documentation in weeks two and three, and we run the close from the following month end.

What happens to our existing finance team?

They stop reconciling and start analysing. In most engagements nobody leaves — the close simply stops eating the first half of every month. If you're planning redundancies, we're probably not the right fit.

Who actually does the work?

Qualified accountants working to US GAAP, employed in-house. No subcontracting and no marketplace freelancers. Every account has a named lead, and we don't rotate people between clients.

Bring your close calendar. We'll tell you where the days go.

Thirty minutes, no deck. You leave with a written read on why your close takes as long as it does and a fixed monthly quote — or an honest "you don't need us."

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Prefer to talk now? Call +1 (000) 000-0000 or email hello@outgrewquickbooks.com