Outsourced Accounting Services

Grow your business and improve accounting operations and business processes with FORVIS’ outsourced accounting and other managed services. Contact us today.

Whether you’re looking for managed services like outsourcing your accounting function, or assistance in streamlining operations, FORVIS has tailored solutions to help your small business or nonprofit succeed. The experience of our professionals is backed by industry credentials and client success stories. We go beyond simply managing the books. Our team understands the complex tax, audit, and financial challenges of your business and can provide high-level guidance to help you make informed decisions.

Ready to explore your needs and tackle next steps together? Contact us, or read on to learn more about how we can help you reach your goals.

By the Books: The Complete Guide to Small Business Accounting & Finance

The finance and accounting function is critical to your business’s long-term success. As a small to midsize business, reviewing the various aspects of your finance and accounting function can feel overwhelming, and you may not know where to start. Whether your business is a start-up or preparing to go public, our By the Books guide can help you establish proper finance and accounting processes to help your business prosper.

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Accounting Operations Improvement & Maintenance

Timely, accurate, and on-demand financial data is critical for organizational decision making. Our team is ready to perform a multipoint inspection to assess whether your accounting operations are running efficiently and adapting to changes in process and technology. This includes, but is not limited to:

Reviewing organization/management financial needs and accounting system output
Evaluating and enhancing chart of accounts, classes, and dimension structures
Confirming accuracy of existing transaction coding and classification
Assessing readiness of accounting system and underlying reports for year-end tax return and/or financial statement preparation

We’re also here to assist with the maintenance and upkeep of your accounting records, whether as a one-time project or on an ongoing basis. The list below is a sample of how we can help:

Facilitating entry of bank, credit card, accounts receivable, and accounts payable transactions
Assisting with employee expense reporting and reimbursement
Performing periodic account reconciliations
Completing period-end close and associated entries

Accounts Payable Process Solutions

Are you satisfied with your company’s current accounts payable function? Are manual accounting processes slowing down cash flow and the growth of your business? Our Outsourced Accounting Services offers a technology solution managed by professional accountants that can:

Simplify and expedite your bill management, approval, and payment process in a user-friendly interface, including mobile app capability
Implement levels of internal control without hiring additional personnel
Provide payment option flexibility
Integrate seamlessly with most major general ledger software platforms for financial reporting

Expense Management

Managing expenses can be a difficult task without a proper system in place. Expense management gives better control over your company’s finances; provides real-time insight into spending trends and cash planning; and enables receipt collection, storage, and retrieval in a concise manner. Our Outsourced Accounting Services team can assist your company’s management team in defining and setting expense management processes. Using the appropriate expense management technology can help your company:

Save time by reducing or eliminating manual processes
Facilitate digital approval of your team’s expenses, including a second approval that helps reduce risk of fraud
Smooth compatibility challenges by easily integrating into your cloud-based accounting system
Increase employee satisfaction by allowing for faster reimbursement

Budgeting & Cash Flow Planning

Financial planning, projecting, and analysis are critical to sustaining success. Our professionals at FORVIS have the tools and know-how to assist business leaders in creating and maintaining a cash flow plan to help predict and manage your top priorities. Steps to cash flow planning include:

Analyze quote-to-cash and procure-to-pay timelines
Determine capital spending needs
Identify financing sources
Document the plan in an easy-to-use, adaptable format

Our experience, tools, and templates also can help you meet your business goals through all phases of the budgeting process. FORVIS can assist with:

Version control and spreadsheet management
Financial data analysis and KPI development
Revenue forecasting models
Budgeting software assessment

Fixed Asset Management

We live in a complex regulatory world with various approaches for GAAP, federal income taxes, alternative minimum taxes, and states. Save yourself the headache of keeping track of complex regulations, and leverage our outsourcing fixed asset management to help:

Develop a capitalization policy that is tailored to your business needs and conforms to industry standards and regulatory requirements
Reduce complexity with separate, maintained GAAP, tax, AMT, and state schedules
Save time at monthly close by updating your fixed asset schedule for additions, disposals, and other changes
Increase budgeting and forecasting accuracy with customized reports based on locations, divisions, and asset types
Decrease your administrative burden with business personal property tax reporting assistance

Digital Accounting Assessment & Implementation

Unlimited access to data is the new standard for business leaders. Our Outsourced Accounting Services team leverages cloud-based applications like Sage Intacct and QuickBooks Online to facilitate financial records on your terms. Digital access that’s available from any device helps you make data-driven decisions that are based on up-to-date information.

We begin with an assessment of your current record systems and help you develop a plan to integrate with the cloud. FORVIS will be there as a guide for your digital transformation.

Our relationship doesn’t end after assessment and implementation. Our team also can meet your outsourced accounting needs, providing services that include enhancement recommendations, strategy guidance, and tax planning.

Financial Consulting & Analysis

Looking for ways your business can reduce taxes? How’s your cash flow cycle? Are you effectively borrowing? Do you know when to hire more employees? Which key performance indicators drive success in your company and industry? The most successful businesses study these metrics and more every period. They also monitor trends and understand what drives change. Small and midsize businesses usually don’t have the capital or need for a CFO who can evaluate and respond to those benchmarks. The Outsourced Accounting Services team at FORVIS can assist you with this crucial analysis on your schedule and terms to help:

Improve your financial fitness by identifying and tracking key performance indicators
Review your benchmarks as needed or on a prearranged schedule

Payroll Process Consulting

Employees are a company’s most valued asset and a significant contributor to financial success. They also are frequently one of the largest expenses reported on the financial statements. Our Outsourced Accounting Services team can help you identify the processing solution that helps meet your needs. Our evaluation process includes:

Ability to handle off-cycle payrolls, manual check calculations, and fringe benefit reporting
Tracking of benefit accruals and other payroll-specific information
Ability to handle wage garnishments and third-party payments
Compliance with all regulatory requirements
Ability to handle Affordable Care Act information return reporting (if required)

Outsourced Lease Accounting

Implementation of the new lease standard GASB 87 and FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 842 may require more robust systems and controls in place to identify embedded leases, which is more consequential now that leases are to be recognized on the balance sheet. FORVIS can offer guidance on compliance and implementation of the new lease standards.