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Solutions · Catch-up & cleanups

Inherit the mess. Find out what is in it.

A new client’s books arrive in whatever state the last person left them. The expensive part is not the fixing - it is discovering what is wrong before you have promised a fee.

What the diagnostics look for.

These run nightly across every client on the roster, not just the ones you are worried about.

Uncategorized activity
Transactions sitting in the catch-all account that a real chart of accounts should have absorbed.
Opening balance equity
Activity parked in the account that should have been emptied the day the file was set up.
Duplicate transactions
The same movement recorded twice - the classic result of a feed and a manual entry meeting.
Plugged reconciliations
An account marked reconciled with a forced adjustment holding it together.
Unreconciled periods
Months that were closed without ever being proven against a statement.

Why a cleanup goes wrong, and what changes.

A diagnosis before a quote

The rules run across the roster nightly, so the condition of a file is a report rather than an afternoon of clicking.

What cannot be checked is said, not implied

Where a check needs data the file does not hold, Bursar says which data and why - it does not return a clean bill of health it has not earned.

Then the same engine that closes the month

A cleanup ends where every other month begins: current books, reconciled, with a memo of what is still open.

A clean bill of health has to be earned.

A diagnostic that passes and a diagnostic with no input look identical from the outside. Bursar reports which rules ran against what, so “no findings” means the check ran and found nothing - not that the check had nothing to read.

Founding-firm program

Hand us the file you inherited.

Five clients, first month free. Pick the ones you have been dreading.