Construction and trades
Job costing, work in progress, retentions and progress billing, with revenue recognised over time where the contract requires it.
A specialist back office, not an outsourcing floor.
AccountState Global was built for practice owners who want the capacity of a larger team without handing their clients to a call centre. Four years, five jurisdictions, and one professional who knows every file we hold.
4years supporting accounting practices
5jurisdictions worked in regularly
7accounting and workflow platforms
48hturnaround on review points
Experience
Where the expertise comes from
The last four years have been spent inside the workflows of CPA, ACCA and CA firms rather than in a single company's finance department. That difference matters. Practice work has a rhythm of its own: a close calendar you cannot slip, a reviewer who wants schedules laid out a particular way, and clients whose records arrive in whatever state they arrive in.
The work covers the full cycle. Day to day bookkeeping and coding, month end close and management reporting, statutory financial statements under IFRS and local GAAP, indirect tax working papers, and audit file preparation from lead schedules through to analytical review.
Working across five countries means moving between frameworks and filing conventions week to week, and knowing which assumptions do not travel between them.
Work we take on regularly
- Month end close and management reporting packs
- Statutory financial statements under IFRS and local GAAP
- Audit working paper files and prepared by client lists
- Sales tax, VAT and GST reconciliations and schedules
- Payroll journals, accruals and fixed asset registers
- Historical cleanups and platform migrations
- Budgets, forecasts and cash flow schedules
Sectors
Industries already on the books
Sector familiarity saves your reviewer time, because the treatment questions have been answered before rather than raised as queries.
Property and real estate
Multi-entity portfolios, service charge accounts, investment property revaluation and intercompany loan reconciliation.
Retail and ecommerce
High volume payment gateway reconciliation, inventory and cost of sales, marketplace settlements and multi-currency sales.
Professional services
Time and billing systems, unbilled revenue, partner drawings and recharges across related entities.
Healthcare practices
Clinic and practice groups, insurance receivables, practitioner splits and equipment leasing schedules.
Not for profit
Restricted and unrestricted fund accounting, grant reporting and donor schedules prepared for audit.
Systems
We adapt to your stack, never the other way round
You should not have to change software, templates or workflow to bring in support. We work inside what your practice already runs on, and where a platform is new to us, we learn it during onboarding at our own cost rather than yours.
The same principle covers documentation. Your chart of accounts conventions, file naming, folder structure and review checklist are recorded during onboarding and followed exactly, so the file that comes back looks like your team prepared it.
Platforms in daily use
QuickBooks Online
Xero
Sage
Zoho Books
CaseWare
Documents and workflow
Dext
Hubdoc
Karbon
SharePoint
Google Workspace
Reporting and analysis
Excel and Power Query
Fathom
Syft
Power BI
How we work
Handled personally, which is the point
Most outsourcing arrangements spread a client across a rotating team. It scales well and it reviews badly. Treatments drift, context is lost between staff, and every handover is another set of eyes on your client's records.
Here, your files stay with one qualified professional from onboarding onwards. Fewer people means a smaller confidentiality surface, consistent judgement from month to month, and a reviewer who never has to explain the same thing twice.
- Capacity is managed, not oversoldOnly a set number of monthly files are accepted at a time. When the calendar is full, new firms are told so rather than added and absorbed.
- Deadlines are committed in writingThe close calendar is agreed before the first month runs and each deliverable has a named date. Missed dates are credited without you having to ask.
- Time zones work in your favourWork is completed while your office is closed, so queries raised at the end of your day are usually answered before it starts again.
- Nothing is retained afterwardsAccess is returned, working copies are destroyed and a confirmation is issued in writing. Your client records live in your systems throughout.
Our standard
How we measure our own work
Three tests that decide whether a month has gone well, regardless of how busy it was.
Reviewable first time
A file is finished when your reviewer can sign it without rebuilding a schedule. Rework raised by your team is cleared within 48 hours and never billed.
On the date promised
The close calendar is set at onboarding and held to. If something threatens the date, you hear about it while there is still time to act, not afterwards.
Invisible to your clients
Every deliverable carries your branding and every query routes through your team. Your client relationship is yours alone, and it stays that way.
Start with one file
See the work before you commit to it.
One live client file, closed to your standard, at our cost. No proposal deck and no pressure to sign anything first.