Stakeholder Reporting
The People Who Need Your Numbers
Management, your bank, your investors and your board each get the right package on their calendar — and the numbers in it hold up when somebody checks.
Who This Is For
The usual reasons: a lender's covenant, an investor update, a board that meets on a date.
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What you receive
What It Includes
These are the standard services, grouped under the objective they serve rather than sold as a menu.
- The monthly management package, assembled from the closed books with commentary a non-accountant can read.
- Lender reporting: the statements and agings your bank asks for, with the covenant-compliance and borrowing-base certificates computed and checked before an officer signs them.
- Investor updates and board packages: the letter, the metrics and the cap table, on their cadence rather than yours.
- Delivery on each party's calendar, their questions fielded, and a re-issue when a late entry moves a number they already hold.
- The request list for a lender's annual review or an investor's round, managed to closure.
Stakeholder Reporting — what you receive
Who owns the work
Review, With You, or For You
The same three postures apply to every category. What separates them is who owns the work: all yours at Review, shared at With You, all ours at For You. The final sign-off is your management’s on all three.
- Review
- All yours — your team prepares the package…Review · Stakeholder ReportingAll yours — your team prepares the package; we read it before it goes and say what we would change.
- With You
- Shared — we prepare each package from your closed books…With You · Stakeholder ReportingShared — we prepare each package from your closed books; your team checks it, approves it and sends it, inside your own process.
- For You
- All ours — we prepare each package and, once your management has signed it off, send it as that party's point of contact.For You · Stakeholder ReportingAll ours — we prepare each package and, once your management has signed it off, send it as that party's point of contact.
What goes into Stakeholder Reporting, and who does it at each posture
| The work | Review | With You | For You |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assemble the package from the closed books, with commentary a non-accountant can read | You | Us | Us |
| Compute and check the covenant and borrowing-base certificates before an officer signs | You | Us | Us |
| Read the package before it goes and say what we would change | Us | — | — |
| Check and approve the package | You | You | You |
| Send it on that party's calendar, and field their questions | You | You | Us |
| Re-issue when a late entry moves a number they already hold | You | Us | Us |
| Run the request list for a lender's annual review or an investor's round | You | Us | Us |
| Your officer signs the certificate; management signs off the package | You | You | You |
The final sign-off is your management’s on every posture; we never sign off on the books or on any engagement.
The boundary
What This Does Not Cover
We do not sign a covenant certificate — the signature is your officer's, and our job is to make sure the number under it is right. Every package is priced per package issued, so a month with no package costs nothing.
What It Runs On
We do this work on Automate Accounting, which has its own page for the same objective. That page says what the software does; this one says what we do with it.
What you hold first
Before You Sign Anything
Three things you have in hand before anything is signed: the first from this site, the other two from the engagement letter.
Your Own Estimate
Before you write to us
A Written Scope and Price
Before we start
An Exit Named in Advance
Before we start
The first conversation is a look at your books and an honest answer about whether we are the right firm for this.