I am a Chartered Certified Accountant working with Irish owner-managed businesses turning over roughly €500,000 to €2 million — too small to employ a financial controller, big enough that guessing is expensive.
In most of them the bookkeeping gets done and the year end gets filed on time, and still nobody can say which jobs made money and which lost it. The owner knows the business is busy. That is not the same as knowing it is profitable. Closing the month is how you find out, and it is the work I do.
The work runs alongside your existing accountant rather than instead of them. Year-end accounts, corporation tax, VAT and payroll stay where they are. What I add is a closed set of figures every month, the margin behind them, and a forward view of cash.
Send me your company name. I will read your most recently filed accounts and tell you what they already show about your margin, your debtor days and your capacity to borrow — in a 20-minute call, at no charge. You will learn something about your business either way.