01 Close operations
The Monthly Close, Run as a Service
We run month-end on a fixed twelve business day calendar, with a named owner and a stated dependency behind every step, ending in a reviewed pack.
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01Engagements
Five ways to hand over the finance function.
Each engagement has one output and one date. Most companies start with the close, because nothing downstream of it can be trusted until it holds, and then add reporting once it does.
02 Management reporting
The Reporting Pack We Deliver Every Month
A page by page walk through the management pack we issue each month: P&L by service line, thirteen week cash, variance commentary and a KPI page.
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03 Financial controls
Segregation of Duties in a 15 Person Company
The control matrix we install in small Canadian companies: who authorises, executes, records and reconciles, and what to do when you cannot split a duty.
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04 Finance systems
Implementing the Finance Stack
How we select and sequence a finance stack: ledger, AP, payroll, expense, reporting, with cutover at a period boundary and a parallel run first.
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05 Fractional finance lead
The First 90 Days of a Fractional Finance Lead
What a fractional finance lead does in the first ninety days: diagnostic, cash discipline, a close that holds, and a finance calendar for the year ahead.
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06 Close remediation
Taking Over a Close That Is Failing
Taking over a month-end that has stopped working: triage first, then the suspense and reconciliation backlog, a restatement decision, one clean period.
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Not sure which one you need.
Most owners know the symptom rather than the engagement. Describe the symptom and we will tell you which of the five addresses it, including when the answer is none of them.