Supporting Strategies Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services
Focus on Your Core Business. We’ll Focus on the Books.
How can you gain more time to focus on your core business?
Are you focusing on the transactional details of bookkeeping, such as correcting entries, rather than using your financial data to plan for the upcoming year?
Whether you are handling the bookkeeping yourself or managing bookkeeping staff, when you outsource your bookkeeping and controller services to Supporting Strategies you will not only gain time to focus on your business, you’ll gain financial intelligence to help you make informed decisions for your business.
Supporting Strategies provides outsourced bookkeeping services, operational support services and controller services to growing businesses. For over 15 years, Supporting Strategies’ locally owned and operated offices have served thousands of companies, helping business leaders free up their time and streamline their businesses. Our experienced professionals use secure, best-of-breed technology and a proven process to deliver a full suite of bookkeeping and controller services.
Every Supporting Strategies client works with a directly aligned team, allowing for cross-training and distributed workload coverage. This team approach gives us the capacity to scale to keep up with the evolving needs of your business. It also enables a segregation of duties, which means checks and balances are always in place. Supporting Strategies establishes controls that support the integrity and accuracy of each client’s financial information.
Our team members are all based in the United States and have an average of 10 years of industry experience. They typically have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related discipline, and many hold an advanced degree and/or CPA designation. And as a part of your local business community, each of our locally owned and operated offices can make referrals to other service providers.
Expense & Accounts Payable Management
At Supporting Strategies, our outsourced bookkeeping services will keep your books in order. When you receive a bill, Supporting Strategies will process it. We will administer your employees’ expense reports, issue and track vendor purchase orders, and track credit card expenses and receipts. And what about your independent contractors? We’ll manage the paperwork and prepare the 1099s for them as well.
Customer Invoicing, Accounts Receivable, and Revenue Recognition
A key part of your business is receiving timely payment for your products and services. Supporting Strategies can help you with customer invoicing, as well as with streamlining your collections processes to ensure for strong cash flow. In addition, we make sure to record your revenue accurately so you get timely information on your business’ performance.
Bookkeeping & Month-End Close
A key to a successful business is to keep track of the numbers to see what parts of the business are working and what needs improvement. Supporting Strategies ensures all transactions are accurately captured in the books. In our month-end close and review process, we make necessary journal entry adjustments, reconcile balance sheet accounts and verify accuracy of income statements. We also support additional categorization, such as class or project accounting.
Financials, Planning & Analysis
Supporting Strategies delivers a standard monthly financial package, including balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows. We also provide additional management reporting to meet client needs. This may include cash reporting, budget vs. actual analysis and/or a key performance indicators dashboard. We assist with preparing budgets and forecasts and provide analysis on performance against plan. In addition, we fulfill requests from your CPA and field and coordinate filings with state or other government agencies.
Payroll & Human Resource Administration
Supporting Strategies handles many aspects of payroll administration, including setup, processing, and journal entries and reconciliations. We also help with benefits administration, such as payroll deductions for benefit plans, paid and sick time-off tracking and monitoring retirement plan contributions and limits. In the area of employment assistance, we assist with new hire/termination coordination and manage the employee master file, including following up on missing information/documentation.
An Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services Partner
Supporting Strategies will act as a partner to your business — offering the bookkeeping and controller expertise and skills you need at the levels you need. And it all comes without the added expense and responsibility of hiring and managing new employees.
Streamline Your Business
Our experienced U.S.-based professionals use secure, best-of-breed technology and a proven process to deliver a full suite of bookkeeping and controller services. We start with efficient, standardized processes that we can customize to fit your company’s unique needs. Our team-based workflow model means checks and balances are always in place, minimizing the likelihood of errors.
As an outsourced bookkeeping and controller services provider, we can deliver an outsider’s perspective on your business combined with an insider’s insight. With a more efficient bookkeeping process, you will have more time to focus on growing your business.
Set Up Systems That Scale With Business Growth
We collaborate with your team using highly secure, best-of-breed cloud accounting tools, including WorkPlace™, our proprietary workflow management system, and the latest third-party solutions. With outsourced bookkeeping and controller services from Supporting Strategies, you will have systems in place that will scale with business growth.
Gain Financial Insight
Supporting Strategies offers higher-level controller services that provide business leaders with financial insight. With our proven processes, we will consistently produce timely, accurate and customizable financial information. We’ll provide the data you need to understand the financial picture of your business so you can make informed decisions. In addition to the monthly financial package we deliver, we can work with you to determine and report on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Depending on your business, KPIs could include cash reporting and budget versus actual analysis. We can also provide a monthly reconciliation of all cash accounts and a regular cash-flow forecast to help you manage your cash flow.
Minimize Risk
By working with Supporting Strategies, you can help ensure business continuity at your company. Our remote cloud-based bookkeeping services are provided 100% online and include remote check deposit and mail processing.
You can help prevent mistakes and even fraud by outsourcing your bookkeeping and controller services to Supporting Strategies. With our team approach, we establish built-in controls and segregation of duties. As a small business owner, you know how difficult that can be to achieve in-house. We will help solve this problem for you by setting up proven processes and systems to implement controls.
Helping You Succeed
From providing day-to-day outsourced bookkeeping services to higher-level controller services including financial analysis and planning, our goal is to help your business succeed.
Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services Client Testimonials
Before Supporting Strategies, I was handling tasks like invoicing residents and printing checks each week. Supporting Strategies has taken those things off my hands, which has enabled me to focus on growing our businesses.
I like knowing how our practice is performing on a daily basis, and Supporting Strategies has allowed me to keep tabs on our financial health.
Supporting Strategies has consistently found ways to become more and more productive, and we’ve yet to outgrow their knowledge base. They really know their stuff.
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