Services
Startup Accounting & Bookkeeping
GAAP-compliant books. Clean monthly close. Audit-ready from day one.
Series A and B startups can't run on shoebox accounting anymore. Your board wants accurate financials by the 10th of the month. Your auditors want a clean trial balance. Your investors want to see operating expenses categorized the same way every period. We deliver all of it.
What we do
What's included
- Monthly close
- Full close by business day 10. Bank reconciliations, accruals, prepaids, deferred revenue, and revenue recognition handled correctly.
- GAAP-compliant books
- Accrual basis accounting from the start. No painful conversion before your first audit.
- Chart of accounts
- Built for venture-backed reporting. Departmental tracking, SaaS metrics ready, R&D capitalization where appropriate.
- AP and AR management
- Bill pay, vendor management, customer invoicing, collections.
- Sales tax and 1099s
- Multi-state sales tax compliance and year-end 1099 filings.
- Monthly financial package
- P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and KPI summary delivered to your inbox.
The stack
Software we run
QuickBooks Online, Xero, NetSuite, Ramp, Brex, Bill.com, Stripe, Gusto, Rippling. We meet you where you are or recommend the right stack for your stage.
When founders hire us
Signals it's time
- Your bookkeeper closed in 30+ days last month and you can't run a board meeting on stale data
- You're 6 months from your first audit and your books aren't GAAP-compliant
- You've outgrown a part-time bookkeeper but a full-time controller is overkill
- You want one partner for accounting and finance instead of stitching together vendors
Further reading
More on the accounting stack and what it costs
Trying to figure out what outsourced accounting and back-office support actually costs at your stage? Our real-pricing guide for fractional CFO, controller, accounting, HR, and modeling covers monthly retainer ranges by stage and what drives the variation.
On the corporate card and AP side, we explain why Ramp is our default for venture-backed startups — replacing Expensify, Bill.com, and a separate card program with one integrated platform that produces auditor-grade internal controls.
Once payroll and 401(k) are in the picture, our payroll and 401(k) administration playbook covers how to run both without losing your weekends — and how the integration with your accounting stack eliminates the most common compliance failures.
Clean books, on schedule.
Tell us about your current setup and where it's breaking down. We'll show you what a Pegacorn close looks like.