Accounting & Finance · UAE
A finance function that reports on time and holds up to scrutiny.
Books that close on time, management information that arrives while it is still useful, and a finance function that scales with the business rather than behind it.
15 capabilities in this practice
Discuss accounting & financeThe problem
The numbers arrive too late to be decisions
Most finance functions are not inaccurate — they are late. By the time the management pack is circulated, the month it describes is three weeks gone and the decisions it should have informed have already been made on instinct. The cause is almost never the reporting step; it is unreconciled data two weeks upstream.
Business impact
What it costs to leave alone.
- Decisions made blind
- Pricing, hiring and spend commitments get made against last quarter's picture.
- Cash surprises
- Receivables and payables drift because nobody owns the working capital cycle week to week.
- Audit friction
- A close that was never clean becomes an audit that takes twice as long and costs more.
Our approach
How we work on it.
- Fix the upstream, not the report
- We work back from the close date to find where the data actually stalls, then remove that constraint. Reporting improves as a consequence.
- One calendar, owned by name
- Every task in the close has a named owner and a date. Nothing sits in a shared inbox waiting to be noticed.
- Reporting built for the reader
- An owner, a lender and a board each need a different pack. We build the one the reader will actually act on.
Capabilities
Everything in Accounting & Finance.
Each of these is a discrete piece of work. Most engagements combine several.
Bookkeeping
Accounting
Financial Reporting
Management Accounts
Accounts Payable
Accounts Receivable
Payroll Accounting
Month-End Closing
Year-End Closing
Outsourced Accounting
Virtual CFO
Fractional CFO
Financial Planning
Budgeting & Forecasting
Cash Flow Management
2 capabilities have a detailed page — the linked ones above.
Process
How an engagement runs.
Four stages. You know which one you are in and what closes it.
Diagnostic
Two weeks reviewing the current close, the chart of accounts and where reconciliations break.
Stabilise
Clear the backlog, agree the calendar, and get one clean close on the board before changing anything else.
Improve
Automate the repetitive steps, tighten controls, and shorten the cycle a few days at a time.
Run or hand over
Either we operate the function to agreed service levels, or we document it and hand it to your team.
Deliverables
What you receive.
- Monthly management pack with commentary
- Documented close calendar with named owners
- Reconciled balance sheet with supporting schedules
- 13-week rolling cash flow forecast
- Budget and variance reporting
Related
Accounting & Finance, in context
Related industries
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- RetailStore-level performance, stock accuracy and a close that keeps pace.
- Professional ServicesUtilisation, WIP and recovery, visible before the quarter closes.
- SMEsOne team for accounting, tax and the decisions in between.
- StartupsSet up correctly, report credibly, stay fundable.
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Next step
Talk to someone who does accounting & finance.
A short conversation establishes whether there is a real question here, who should answer it, and what it will take.
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- One reply that already contains a view, not a request to book a call.
- A written scope and fee basis, or a straight answer that there is no work to do.
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