Keep your bookkeeper.
Add CPA-level perspective.
Your bookkeeper maintains the records. Our CPA-led team provides periodic controller-level oversight, communicates observations and recommendations, and helps you use financial information to make informed business decisions.
Keep the day-to-day process. Add perspective.
A good bookkeeper keeps transactions organized and accounts reconciled. Your management team still makes the decisions. We provide a separate layer of professional analysis, periodic accounting-process feedback, and scheduled conversations about business performance and taxes.
CPA Oversight is for businesses with an established bookkeeper and sufficiently current records. If you need us to take over day-to-day accounting, explore our Monthly Accounting plans.
Choose the level of oversight and strategic support you need.
Each plan is billed monthly. The plan name describes the frequency of scheduled strategy conversations, while the controller-level oversight cadence is listed below.
Annual
Periodic controller-level oversight for established bookkeeping processes.
- Quarterly assessment of the financial close and bookkeeper feedback
- 1 Performance Strategy Review per year
- 1 Tax Strategy Review per year, including year-end planning considerations
- Quarterly federal estimated-tax calculations based on information provided
Quarterly
Monthly accounting oversight paired with quarterly performance conversations.
- Monthly assessment of the financial close and bookkeeper feedback
- 4 Performance Strategy Reviews per year
- 2 Tax Strategy Reviews per year, including year-end planning considerations
- Quarterly federal estimated-tax calculations based on information provided
Monthly
More frequent strategic discussion and financial planning, without a full-time internal controller or CFO.
- Monthly comprehensive controller-level assessment of the financial close and bookkeeper feedback
- 12 Performance Strategy Reviews per year
- 4 Tax Strategy Reviews per year, including year-end planning considerations
- Quarterly federal estimated-tax calculations based on information provided
- Annual budget and forecast developed using management-supplied assumptions
Prices are starting rates. Final fees, scope and service frequency are confirmed in a signed engagement letter.
What our controller-level assessment covers.
Using available records and procedures appropriate to the engagement, our team considers selected elements of the bookkeeping close and communicates observations for follow-up. Typical areas include:
Reconciliations and close activity
Selected bank, credit-card and loan reconciliations; journal entries, accruals, prepaids and fixed asset activity.
Financial information and feedback
Financial statement reasonableness and significant changes, with identified matters and proposed corrections communicated to your bookkeeper.
Washington tax considerations
Relevant Washington B&O and sales/excise tax issues noticed during the scheduled assessment. Tax return preparation and filing are not included.
Performance and tax conversations
Focused, scheduled Strategy Reviews using information available under the engagement; not comprehensive standalone Strategy Sessions.
The work stays clearly defined.
Your bookkeeper
Maintains the accounting records, processes transactions, completes reconciliations, and implements agreed corrections.
Business management
Remains responsible for complete records, internal controls, financial statements, business decisions, required tax filings, and timely tax payments.
Our CPA-led team
Performs agreed periodic assessments and scheduled advisory reviews, communicates observations, and recommends next steps based on information provided.
What to know before getting started.
- Books must be current and sufficiently reconciled before oversight begins. Historical cleanup, corrective bookkeeping, implementation and other work outside the agreed scope are priced separately.
- Quarterly federal estimated-tax calculations rely on timely, complete tax and financial information furnished for the agreed taxpayer(s). Estimates may change as facts change; the client remains responsible for tax payments and deadlines.
- Business and individual income-tax return preparation, excise-tax return filing, payroll processing, and other compliance work are excluded unless separately engaged. Monthly deposits toward separately engaged tax return preparation may be available.
- Included Performance and Tax Strategy Reviews are focused, point-in-time conversations using the financial and tax information available for the scheduled review. They do not include continuous monitoring, specialized research, comprehensive modeling, customized resource packets, or implementation projects.
- For deeper analysis, standalone Performance Strategy Sessions ($1,250) and Tax Strategy Sessions ($1,500) can be separately engaged. Additional CFO advisory work is also separately scoped.
Better financial insight, without changing bookkeepers.
Schedule a discovery call to discuss your records, priorities, and the appropriate CPA Oversight engagement.
