Supporting Strategies Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services
Focus on Your Core Business. We’ll Focus on the Books.
How can you gain more time to focus on your core business?
As your business grows, bookkeeping often becomes more complex than expected.
Transaction volume increases. Reporting expectations rise. Cash flow becomes harder to monitor. More people become involved in financial workflows. Processes that once worked can start creating delays, inconsistencies, and operational friction.
Businesses often come to us when bookkeeping depends too heavily on one person, month-end close takes too long, reporting feels inconsistent, or leadership lacks confidence in the numbers.
Supporting Strategies provides outsourced bookkeeping services, operational support services and controller services to growing businesses. Our 100% U.S.-based professionals work within a team-based support model designed to improve bookkeeping consistency, strengthen reporting processes, and create a scalable financial foundation.
Every Supporting Strategies client works with a directly aligned team, allowing for cross-training, distributed workload coverage, and continuity over time. This team approach gives us the capacity to scale with the evolving needs of your business while supporting checks and balances, segregation of duties, and reporting reliability.
Our team members are all based in the United States and bring meaningful accounting and finance experience to the work. They typically have a bachelor’s degree in accounting or a related discipline, and many hold an advanced degree and/or CPA designation. As part of your local business community, each of our locally owned and operated offices can also make referrals to other service providers when needed.
Expense & Accounts Payable Management
Supporting Strategies helps businesses manage expenses and accounts payable with greater consistency and control.
When bills arrive, our team can help process them, support approval workflows, track vendor purchase orders and monitor credit card expenses and receipts. We also help administer employee expense reports and support 1099 preparation for independent contractors.
The goal is not simply to process payables. It is to help create cleaner workflows, stronger documentation and better visibility into outgoing cash.
Customer Invoicing, Accounts Receivable, and Revenue Recognition
Timely invoicing and collections are critical to healthy cash flow.
Supporting Strategies can help with customer invoicing, accounts receivable tracking and collections process support so your business has a clearer view of what has been billed, what has been collected and what still needs attention.
We also help record revenue accurately so leadership has more reliable information about business performance. As businesses grow, clean revenue recognition and receivables processes become increasingly important to maintaining cash flow visibility and consistent reporting.
Bookkeeping & Month-End Close
Reliable bookkeeping creates the financial foundation leadership depends on to understand cash flow, monitor profitability and make informed decisions.
Supporting Strategies helps ensure transactions are accurately captured in the books. During the month-end close and review process, our team can support journal entry adjustments, balance sheet reconciliations and income statement review. We can also support additional categorization, such as class or project accounting, when the business needs more detailed reporting.
As transaction volume and operational complexity increase, a consistent month-end close becomes more important. Strong close processes help reduce errors, improve reporting reliability and give leadership financial information they can use with greater confidence.
Financials, Planning & Analysis
Supporting Strategies delivers a standard monthly financial package, including a balance sheet, income statement and statement of cash flows.
We also provide additional management reporting to meet client needs. This may include cash reporting, budget versus actual analysis, KPI dashboards, job costing, inventory tracking and other operational reporting that helps leadership better understand business performance.
Depending on your business, we can assist with preparing budgets and forecasts and provide analysis on performance against plan. As your business grows, this level of reporting can help leadership move beyond simply receiving reports and toward using financial information to support hiring, spending, forecasting and growth decisions.
For a deeper look at how stronger reporting supports operational decision-making, read What Financial Visibility Actually Looks Like in Practice.
In addition, we can fulfill requests from your CPA and coordinate bookkeeping-related filings with state or other government agencies.
Payroll & Human Resource Administration
Supporting Strategies handles many aspects of payroll administration, including setup, processing, journal entries and reconciliations.
We can also help with benefits administration, including payroll deductions for benefit plans, paid and sick time-off tracking and monitoring retirement plan contributions and limits. In the area of employment assistance, we can assist with new hire and termination coordination and maintain employee master file information, including follow-up on missing documentation.
As businesses grow, payroll and employee-related financial workflows can become harder to manage informally. Our support helps create greater consistency around these recurring processes.
An Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services Partner
Supporting Strategies acts as a partner to your business, offering the bookkeeping and controller expertise you need at the level you need it.
For some companies, we supplement an internal finance or operations team. For others, we effectively become part of the finance function itself.
Our model is designed for growing businesses that need stronger financial support without immediately building a large internal accounting department. That may include outsourced bookkeeping, controller support, management reporting, forecasting and recurring financial analysis working together as part of a connected financial structure.
Streamline Your Business
Our experienced, 100% U.S.-based professionals use secure technology and proven processes to deliver outsourced bookkeeping and controller services.
We start with efficient, standardized workflows that can be customized to fit your company’s needs. Our team-based model helps create checks and balances, reduce key-person dependency and maintain continuity as your business grows.
As an outsourced bookkeeping and controller services provider, we combine an outside perspective with a working knowledge of your business. With more consistent bookkeeping processes in place, leadership can spend less time managing financial administration and more time focused on running the business.
Set Up Systems That Scale With Business Growth
As businesses grow, financial workflows often become harder to manage through disconnected systems, manual processes and inconsistent reporting structures.
Supporting Strategies collaborates with your team using secure, cloud-based accounting tools, including WorkPlace™, our proprietary workflow management system, and leading third-party solutions.
These systems help manage recurring accounting workflows, reporting timelines, financial process accountability and operational consistency. With outsourced bookkeeping and controller services from Supporting Strategies, your business can develop financial processes designed to scale as transaction volume, reporting needs and operational complexity increase.
Gain Financial Insight
Supporting Strategies offers higher-level controller services that provide business leaders with greater financial visibility.
With our proven processes, we consistently produce timely, accurate and customizable financial information. We provide the data you need to better understand the financial picture of your business and make informed decisions.
In addition to the monthly financial package we deliver, we can work with you to determine and report on key performance indicators. Depending on your business, KPIs may include cash reporting, budget versus actual analysis, margin reporting or other operational metrics.
We can also provide monthly reconciliation of cash accounts and regular cash flow forecasting to help you better manage cash flow and plan ahead.
For businesses evaluating how financial support evolves as complexity increases, read Do I Need a Bookkeeper, Controller or CFO? and When Does a Small Business Need Controller Services?.
Minimize Risk
By working with Supporting Strategies, you can help improve business continuity and reduce operational risk in your financial processes.
Our remote cloud-based bookkeeping services are provided online and can include remote check deposit and mail processing. More importantly, our team-based approach helps reduce reliance on a single internal person for critical bookkeeping and reporting workflows.
With Supporting Strategies, you gain built-in controls, segregation of duties and standardized processes that support the integrity and accuracy of your financial information. For small business owners, those checks and balances can be difficult to create internally. Our model helps establish the processes, systems and oversight needed to support stronger financial operations.
Helping You Succeed
From day-to-day outsourced bookkeeping services to higher-level controller services, including financial analysis and planning, our goal is to help your business operate with clearer financial visibility, stronger reporting consistency and greater confidence in the numbers guiding your decisions.
Outsourced Bookkeeping and Controller Services Client Testimonials
Before Supporting Strategies, I was handling tasks like invoicing residents and printing checks each week. Supporting Strategies has taken those things off my hands, which has enabled me to focus on growing our businesses.
I like knowing how our practice is performing on a daily basis, and Supporting Strategies has allowed me to keep tabs on our financial health.
Supporting Strategies has consistently found ways to become more and more productive, and we’ve yet to outgrow their knowledge base. They really know their stuff.
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