Most charter schools between $4M and $15M buy bookkeeping and consume it as controllership. Those are not the same service, and the difference is where every repeat audit finding, every disallowed grant cost, and every surprise deficit comes from.
This is not negligence. It is scope. Nobody is doing this work because it was never written into anyone's engagement letter.
In prior-year audit adjustments never posted, leaving opening balances that did not agree to the audited financial statements. A repeat of the year before.
Of one school's annual contribution revenue deposited into the affiliated foundation account, against an inter-entity receivable that did not reconcile.
Of non-payroll cash out the door in a single year without passing through the invoice approval workflow.
Transaction-level review of the ledger, the close process, the prior audit and management letter, grant coding, and your accounting firm's actual scope. You get a findings report ranked by severity, an open items tracker with owners and dates, and a remediation plan.
Close oversight, board reporting, grant compliance, and the full audit cycle. Priced in bands by school size and module selection, with a defined monthly hour range and an on-site commitment.
Budget build, audit remediation, grant year setup, chart of accounts rebuild, payroll implementation, or the financial sections of a renewal application.
For schools between business managers or between accounting providers. Includes stabilization of the close and a documented handoff to the permanent hire.
For schools in financial distress, under authorizer scrutiny, or carrying facilities debt and unresolved liens. Cash and payables triage, lender negotiation, and a stabilization plan.
For schools that have the capacity but want a second set of eyes on one specific question.
A conversation with you and your operations lead, followed by a written scope and fee proposal within five business days. If a diagnostic is not what your school needs, I will tell you that instead.