Accounting and Bookkeeping

Your CFO Strategy Is Only as Good as the Numbers Underneath It.

Till builds and operates the accounting infrastructure your finance function runs on - so the books are right, the close happens on time, and every decision above this layer has a foundation it can trust.

The Problem

When Crises Reveal Accounting Weaknesses

That moment usually announces itself without warning. You’re in diligence on a raise and an investor asks for a three-year audit trail you can’t cleanly produce. Your board meeting is tomorrow and cash flow is off from what it was last month - and no one’s sure why. AR has been aging for sixty days and the number on the balance sheet doesn’t match what’s actually collectible. Payroll ran but the journal entry is wrong, and now your P&L is off. None of these are catastrophic on their own. Together, they add up to the same thing: the foundation is unreliable, and everything built on top of it is suspect.

Systems Not Designed for Growing Scale

The problem isn’t that the CEO doesn’t care. It’s that the accounting function was never built to run reliably at scale. It was stitched together - a part-time bookkeeper here, a payroll tool there, a controller stretched across too many responsibilities. It works until it doesn’t. And when it doesn’t, the consequences surface in the worst possible moments.

Foundational Books That Can’t Be Trusted

The books are either right or they’re not. Most growing companies don’t find out which until the moment it matters.

What This Service Covers

Till’s CFO Partner integrates into your board cadence, attends your executive meetings, and works directly with your leadership team on the decisions that matter. They’re not reviewing your numbers after the fact. They’re in the room where the numbers get made. This is the strategic layer your business is missing: financial leadership that operates continuously, not episodically.

Month-End Close

Books closed within 5-10 business days. Clean P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statement every month, on time. Not a draft. Not a preliminary. Closed. The close runs because the system runs it - not because someone remembered to start it.

Accounts Receivable & Payable

AR aging tracked and actively managed. AP processed accurately and on schedule. Your cash position reflects reality, not a lag. You know what’s coming in, what’s going out, and when.

Payroll Infrastructure

Payroll processed accurately, compliantly, and on time - every cycle. No surprises for employees. No issues with the IRS. Payroll is one of the highest-stakes, lowest-tolerance areas of operations. It runs without drama.

Cap Table Management

Equity records maintained, updated, and accurate. Option grants logged correctly. Previous rounds reconciled. When an investor asks a question about your cap table, the answer is ready - because the records were kept, not reconstructed.

Revenue Recognition & Technical Accounting

Complex revenue structures - contracts, milestones, subscriptions, deferred revenue - handled correctly from the start. GAAP-compliant. Audit-defensible. Revenue recognition errors are among the most expensive to fix retroactively. The right time to get this right is before it becomes a problem.

Why This Is Different

Most growing companies cobble this together. A part-time bookkeeper for the day-to-day. A payroll tool the office manager manages. A controller who’s technically responsible for everything but stretched too thin to build the underlying systems. Month-end close happens when it happens. AR gets reviewed when someone thinks to pull the report.
Till builds it as an integrated system. Same team. Same standards. AI-native tooling. Consistent process every month. The close isn’t an event that requires effort - it’s a function that runs. AR doesn’t slip because it’s tracked. Payroll doesn’t surprise anyone because it’s been set up correctly. The difference isn’t effort. It’s infrastructure.
When your CFO Partner is making decisions about your capital structure or presenting to the board, they’re building on numbers that are right. That’s not a small thing. That’s the whole game.

What You Get

You stop getting asked finance questions you can’t answer. Your board receives numbers they trust - and they stop asking follow-up questions that reveal gaps in the reporting. Your raise doesn’t stall in diligence over accounting questions that should have been closed out eighteen months ago. Your cash position is visible before it becomes a problem, not after. Your employees get paid correctly. Your equity records are clean when they need to be. Your auditors don’t find things you didn’t know were wrong.
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You get the one thing that makes every other financial decision possible: a foundation you can stand on.

Frequently Asked Questions

We already have a bookkeeper / controller. Do we need this?

It depends on what they’ve built - and whether it’s running as a system or as a set of recurring tasks. A good controller can run the close. But is the close happening in 5-10 business days every month? Is AR aging actively managed? Is revenue recognition set up correctly for your contract structures? If the honest answer is “mostly” or “I think so,” that’s the gap. Till comes in either to build what’s missing or to take the whole function over - depending on what fits. We’re not here to replace people for the sake of it. We’re here to make sure the foundation is right.

What does a 5-10 business day close actually mean in practice?

It means your financials for the prior month are complete - P&L, balance sheet, cash flow - by the 10th business day of the following month. Not a draft waiting on a few entries. Closed. The standard exists because your CFO Partner needs accurate numbers to do their job, your board needs them for board reporting, and your business needs them to make decisions in the current month, not last month. A slow or inconsistent close creates a lag that compounds across everything above it.

How does this connect to the rest of Till’s services?

Accounting & Bookkeeping is the operational foundation. The Embedded CFO Leadership layer-financial strategy, board reporting, capital structure, executive decision support - runs on top of it. The two services are designed to work together. Your CFO Partner operates at the strategic layer. The accounting infrastructure gives them numbers they can trust. If you’re only engaging one layer, the other has a gap. Most clients engage both.

What accounting software do you use?

Till works in the tools your business already uses - or helps you select the right stack for your stage and structure. The software is secondary. The system that runs on top of it is what matters. We’ll assess your current tooling in the first conversation and tell you what needs to change, if anything.

Research and Insights

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