Accounting & CFO
We keep your books, and a fractional CFO shows you how to grow.
Ironwood handles the financial and operating work for owner-run businesses: the books, the monthly close and payroll. Then your fractional CFO walks you through the numbers, so you understand where the business stands and what to do to grow it and make it more profitable.
- Evaluation
- Bookkeeping
- Payroll
- Fractional CFO
Who it is for
The middle, between a bookkeeper and a finance department.
It is for the business that has outgrown a spreadsheet and a shoebox and is nowhere near a finance department. One owner, a crew or two, real payroll, real receivables, and a stack of month-end work that gets done last because everything else came first.
The help available at that size is usually a bookkeeper who files and never explains, or a CFO priced for a much larger company. This is the middle.
Four services
What the work is.
Evaluation and optimisation
We come in and look at how the business actually runs: pricing, the order of work, where cash gets stuck, and which jobs make money rather than only looking busy. Then you get a plan: what to fix, in what order, and where the AI team can take work off your plate.
Compass turns the evaluation into a dashboard.
Bookkeeping
Categorised transactions, reconciled accounts, and a close that happens on a schedule instead of in March. Your bank feeds come in automatically. Bills and invoices, journal entries, and the receivables you have stopped chasing. Behind on a year of it? That is a job we take on its own.
We keep the books your CPA files from, and we help you set money aside for what they tell you is owed. We do not do your taxes — your CPA does that, and we make their job easier.
Payroll
We run your payroll. You send us the numbers, or we pull them from the time-clock system you already use. We set your employees up, get direct deposit working, and run each payroll when it is due.
The accounting program is the payroll provider — it calculates the payroll taxes, sends the payment, and handles the filings. We are not the provider, and we do not do tax work of any kind. If you need a firm that files your returns, that is not us — and it is better to find that out here than on a call.
Fractional CFO
Every month you sit down with your numbers and talk through what changed, what it cost, and what to do about it before it becomes next quarter’s problem. Not a report you interpret alone.
Where the business stands
One picture of where you are.
Compass turns the evaluation into a dashboard: where the business stands, what to fix first, and whether it moved.
Every month you get a clear walk-through of what changed, what it cost, and what to do next.
How the month gets closed
Closed on schedule, explained in plain English.
Ledger categorises the month’s transactions, reconciles the accounts, and closes the month, so the numbers are ready when you need them.
Then you get the picture that matters: what changed, what it cost, and what to do about it before it becomes next quarter’s problem.
FAQ
Questions we get
Do you do our taxes?
Can you take on a year of catch-up bookkeeping?
Are you our payroll provider?
How do I get the monthly picture?
Work here starts with a conversation
Tell us what is going on in the business.
Tell us what is going on in the business and we will tell you where we would start. Accounting and CFO work is scoped and priced for each business.