One accountable team. A monthly fee scoped to your ledger.

Because the work varies by an order of magnitude between two companies of similar size. A business processing four hundred transactions a month and one processing forty thousand both need "bookkeeping" — but they are not the same engagement, and a flat price would either overcharge one or under-serve the other.

What we will always do is show you how your number was built: volume, entities, currencies, reporting scope and review depth, itemised. If a line looks wrong, you can challenge it before signing.

Onboarding involves real work — mapping, agreed opening balances, a parallel period and configuration — so there is a one-time onboarding scope, quoted upfront rather than buried in the monthly fee. Larger or messier starting positions include a defined remediation scope.

Minimum terms are confirmed in the engagement letter. We would rather agree a sensible initial period than have a client leave after six weeks because the precedent set had not yet had time to build.

Statutory tax filing and licensed audit work sit outside the core engagement, because both require separate licensing and separate liability. We prepare the schedules and workpapers they depend on.

Additional entities, multi-year historical migrations and one-off projects — a diligence pack, a systems migration, a retrospective cleanup — are quoted as their own scopes. You will never receive an invoice for something that was not agreed beforehand.

Volume growth is absorbed within a range before the fee changes, because agents handle additional lines at near-zero marginal cost. We monitor your volume and will raise a change before it affects service, not after.

If volume falls — a product line is discontinued, or an entity is closed — the fee comes down at the next review. Adjustments are not one-directional.

Yes. Review depth is a configurable scope, and many clients start with review on everything and reduce it as the precedent set proves itself. That is the intended progression, not a downgrade.

What we will not do is reduce review below the level required to meet the standard we sign off to. If a lower-cost configuration would compromise the quality of the output, we will decline it rather than quietly do less.

A controller handles judgment, process design and controls — work that a well-run engagement should not eliminate. Where Accruna competes is against hiring for the transactional layer beneath that role.

In practice, most clients who have a controller keep them and use Accruna to remove the preparation work underneath. Where there is no finance hire, Accruna covers the transactional layer while the founder or operator retains approvals and decisions.

Your ledger and history remain in your own systems throughout, so leaving is a question of access rather than data extraction. We complete the period in progress, hand over workpapers, revoke credentials and confirm both in writing.

There is no exit fee and no withholding of your own accounting records. The engagement letter states the notice period, and it is deliberately short.