Growing companies
Your business grew. Your accounting should keep up.
A dedicated accounting team for growing, privately owned companies. No single point of failure, no rebuild when you outgrow it, and numbers you can trust on time, every month.
Growth has a way of outrunning the back office. A second location opens, a new service line takes off, and the person who kept the books either can't keep up or has already moved on. Every time that happens, your numbers reset, and so does your confidence in them.
AccountingDepartment.com replaces that single point of failure with a dedicated team of bookkeepers, accountants, and a controller assigned to your business. When someone takes PTO, changes roles, or leaves, on your side or ours, your close still happens, your reports still arrive, and your history stays intact. We've been the accounting department for growing companies since 2004.
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What did your last accounting departure actually cost?
Most owners count the salary. Very few count everything else. Before you compare any accounting fee to a paycheck, add up what the last turnover event took from you.
The real cost of a single hire
- Weeks of recruiting and interviewing while the seat sat empty
- A backlog of reconciliations and catch-up work nobody owned
- Months of retraining the replacement on your systems and history
- Growth decisions made on late or incomplete numbers
- The certainty that it will happen again
A team built for continuity
- A dedicated team assigned to your account, not one person
- Controller review on every month-end close
- Documented processes, so knowledge stays with your account
- Coverage through PTO, turnover, and growth spurts
- One predictable monthly fee
What changes when accounting stops depending on one person
- Financials delivered on a predictable monthly schedule, not whenever someone catches up
- A faster, standardized month-end close you can plan leadership meetings around
- Forecasting and KPI reporting that let you steer, not just look back
- Accounting support that expands as you add locations, service lines, or entities
- No re-platforming event when you outgrow your current setup
Craft brewery
3 new locations. 1 acquisition.
“If I have 100 problems, my books and accounting are not one of them.”
Owner & Operator
Executive search firm
No more staffing dependency
“They understand the toolbox that is important for small and medium-sized businesses.”
Co-Founder
Automotive marketing firm
Overlooked vendor funds recovered
“With ADC, we went from worst, to first.”
Senior Executive
“AccountingDepartment.com has the expertise and the ability to scale up our accounting function much more quickly than we could have accomplished if we chose to do it internally.”
Rich Oakes · President/CEO, GigSmart
Built for where you're going, not just where you are
Continuity built in
Your account is run by a team, not an individual. Everyone on it knows your books, so a change in personnel never means starting over.
- Dedicated team assigned to your account
- Controller oversight included
- Coverage through staffing changes
- Your history stays with your account
A close you can count on
General ledger maintenance, accruals, and reconciliations completed on a set timeline every month.
- Timely month-end close
- Bank and credit card reconciliations
- Accruals, prepaids, and deferrals
- Job costing and WIP where needed
Numbers you can steer by
Growth decisions deserve current, trustworthy numbers. We build reporting around the metrics that actually run your business.
- Monthly financial statements
- Budgets and forecasts
- Cash flow visibility
- KPI reporting for leadership
Scales without a rebuild
Add a location, a service line, or a new entity without replacing your accounting partner or your system.
- Multi-location and class reporting
- Support for new entities as you grow
- Service level scales with complexity
- Same team as you move up
Systems & technology
We work in QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and leading cloud platforms, and connect them to the tools you already use.
- Cloud accounting platforms
- Expense, invoicing, and time-tracking integrations
- Secure remote access
- Ongoing system optimization
Tax & audit coordination
We work directly with your CPA so your books are ready when they need them.
- Coordination with your tax CPA
- Clean, supporting schedules
- 1099 and sales tax support
- Lender- and audit-ready financials
Where growing companies usually start
Core
Full accounting department + controller oversight
Complete outsourced accounting with a dedicated controller reviewing your financials.
Starting at
$3,500/mo
Complete
Accounting + controller + CFO advisory
Everything in Core, plus budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, and CFO advisory.
Starting at
$5,500/mo
Most growing companies start in Core and move to Complete as they add locations, entities, or forecasting needs, with the same team and without switching providers. Compare all tiers
How the transition works
01
Discovery
We review your current systems, chart of accounts, and reporting, including anything left half-finished by past staff changes.
02
Solution design
We recommend the right service level for where you are now and where you're headed.
03
Onboarding
We clean up or configure your files, standardize processes, and connect your supporting apps.
04
Dedicated team
Your team takes over day-to-day accounting, the monthly close, and recurring reviews with leadership.
05
Growth support
As you add locations or lines of business, we expand reporting and controller involvement to match.
Built for growing businesses like yours
- Construction & contractorsJob costing, WIP tracking, and cash flow visibility across projects.
- Consulting & professional servicesProject and client-level profitability as your team expands.
- Marketing & advertising agenciesRetainer and project revenue tracking with clean monthly margins.
- Software & IT servicesRecurring revenue, runway, and growth metrics for scaling technology firms.
Common questions
What happens if someone on our ADC team leaves?
Your account is run by a team, and your processes are documented, so a personnel change on our side is a handoff, not a restart. Your close schedule and reporting continue uninterrupted.
Our bookkeeper just left. How fast can you step in?
Most clients complete onboarding in three to four weeks, depending on the condition of the books. If there's a backlog from a recent departure, we scope the catch-up work as part of onboarding.
We still have someone internal. Do we have to replace them?
In most cases, AccountingDepartment.com takes over the full accounting function. We'll talk through your current setup in the consultation and recommend what makes sense.
Will we outgrow you?
That's the point of the model. Clients regularly move from Core to Complete and add entities, forecasting, and CFO advisory without changing providers.
Can you work with our current software?
Yes. We work in QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, NetSuite, Sage Intacct, and other leading platforms.
“Whichever way the wind blows and the business heads, you guys are able to accommodate whatever I need.”
President, Wholesale Electronics Client
Talk to a team that stays.
Tell us where your business is headed. We'll show you what accounting built for that looks like.