Handles day-to-day bookkeeping so it never lands back on your desk. Reconciliations, closing, and reporting run on a fixed schedule, not whenever time allows.
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Bookkeeping and accounting, delivered every month
Bookkeeping and accounting runs as one connected engagement: entries, reconciliations, and the month-end close.
The reporting pack reaches you within 5 working days of month-end, prepared in Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, Zoho Books, or the software already running at your business.
Saramis Global staffs every engagement from a team of 9 Chartered Accountants, supported by MBA and BCom professionals, including part-qualified ACCA and CPA members. Book a discovery call to scope the engagement.
What's included
Three parts of one bookkeeping engagement
Outsourced bookkeeping and accounting includes 6 deliverables: accounts payable and receivable processing, bank reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, month-end closing, management reporting, and year-end finalisation with financial statement preparation. Work runs in your own software, and a second qualified professional reviews every deliverable before it reaches you.
Day-to-Day Bookkeeping
Every transaction is entered as it happens, and accounts payable, accounts receivable, and the general ledger stay current between closes. Bank feeds reconcile against the ledger on the same cycle, so a backlog never builds up before month-end.
- AP/AR
- Bank Reconciliations
- GL Maintenance
Accounting Support
The month closes on a schedule. Reconciliations clear and a management report goes out before the numbers reach you, checked against the prior cycle for anything that reads as unusual.
- Month-end Closing
- Management Reporting
- Reconciliations
Accounts Finalisation
Year-end finalisation produces a full set of financial statements, formatted for your own review and your auditor's file. The same reconciled monthly ledger carries forward into the year-end figures. When the statutory audit needs hands, Audit Support picks up that ledger from planning through to sign-off.
- Year-End Finalisation
- Financial Statement Preparation
Businesses
Typically run all three parts as one continuous cycle: entry, close, and finalisation flowing into a single reporting rhythm.
Accounting firms
Often start with day-to-day bookkeeping alone, then add month-end support once the file settles into a rhythm.
Software
Books stay in the platform you already run
Four platforms cover most engagements: Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, and Zoho Books.
Already running something else? Books close in your existing software, and migration is not part of the engagement.
Software match removes a step other providers add by default: moving your ledger onto their own platform before work starts. Bookkeeping stays inside Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, or Zoho Books, exactly where your team already looks for it.
Where the team has not run your software before, it trains on that software first, so the learning curve never lands on you.
Supported platforms
Xero QuickBooks Sage Zoho Books Your existing software
How a month runs
Four steps from records to your reporting pack
Every close follows the same four steps, in the same order, every month.
A review layer applies before anything reaches you, the same discipline described on Quality & Security.
1
Records in
Transactions, invoices, and bank feeds land with the team throughout the month, not in a single batch at the end. Each entry is coded against your chart of accounts as it arrives.
2
Reconciliations
Every account reconciles against its source: bank statements, the AP/AR ledgers, and the general ledger. Variances get flagged and traced before the close moves to review.
3
Review layer
A second reviewer checks the close before it moves forward. Open items are resolved before the reporting pack is drafted, not carried into it.
4
Reporting pack
The reporting pack, a management report plus the cycle's reconciliations, reaches you within 5 working days of month-end. Accounts finalisation carries the same figures forward at year-end.
One close, six named tasks
Every close runs the same 6 tasks in the same order, so nothing is skipped and nothing is done out of sequence.
- 1
Bank reconciliation
Opens the cycle. Every later task depends on cash being right.
- 2
Accruals
Follow once cash is confirmed.
- 3
Fixed-asset rollforward
Follows the accruals, before balances between related entities are cleared.
- 4
Intercompany matching
Clears the balances between related entities.
- 5
Trial balance review
Confirms the ledger agrees with itself before anyone reads a report built on it.
- 6
Variance analysis
Closes the sequence: each line is compared against the prior cycle, and any movement without a reason is traced before the reviewer opens the file.
The reporting pack goes out within 5 working days of month-end. Same tasks, same order, every month.
Who reviews each deliverable
Each deliverable carries a named review path: a preparer produces it, a Chartered Accountant reviews it, and the engagement manager carries overall responsibility for what leaves the team.
Reconciliations
Prepared during the cycle, then checked line by line against source documents, bank statements, and the AP/AR ledgers.
Reporting pack
Reviewed against the prior cycle before release. Open items get resolved, never carried into the pack.
Finalised statements
Released by the engagement manager once the year-end file agrees back to the reconciled monthly closes that produced it.
Common problems
Three bookkeeping failures this cycle is built to catch
Three named failure modes get caught inside the monthly cycle before they compound: trial balance mismatches, unreconciled intercompany balances, and missed GST filing windows. Each has a structural fix, not a heroic one. The cycle catches the error in the month it happens, the only month it is cheap to fix.
Trial balance mismatches
A trial balance that disagrees with the general ledger means an entry posted one-sided, posted twice, or landed against the wrong account. The cure is routine, not detective work: each account ties back to its source documents every cycle, so the mismatch surfaces in the month it occurs. The entry behind it gets traced and corrected before the close reaches review.
Unreconciled intercompany balances
Two related entities record the same transaction at different times, or at different values, and the balances drift until consolidation fails. Intercompany matching runs as a named close task: both sides of every intercompany balance are matched each month, and differences are traced to timing or mis-posting and cleared before the pack goes out.
Missed GST filing windows
A return misses its window when the books behind it close late. This close lands within 5 working days of month-end, so the reconciled figures a GST, VAT, or BAS return draws on exist before the deadline arrives. Lodging the return stays with your authorised signatory or tax agent. Saramis Global does not handle tax filings at present; the books behind them never hold the deadline up.
Commitments
Three commitments behind month-end close
5
Working days to close
4
Business hours, query response
5
Business days to onboard
Turnaround
What each commitment covers
Three turnaround commitments govern this engagement: month-end close, query response, and onboarding. The table states what each figure counts, and from when.
| Commitment | Figure | What it counts |
|---|---|---|
| Month-end close | 5 working days | Reporting pack delivered with reconciliations complete and review done, counted from the last day of the month. |
| Query response | 4 business hours | An answer on the books, the pack, or a specific entry, counted from when the query lands. |
| Onboarding | 5 business days | Live processing inside your software, counted from the written scope being agreed. |
The engagement sequence behind these figures is on How an engagement moves from first call to delivery.
Standards
Formatted for the standard your filing demands
Financial statements leave this engagement formatted under Ind AS, IFRS, or US GAAP, matched to the filing they support. The written scope names the framework before work begins, and it never changes mid-engagement.
Indian companies receive Schedule III presentation under the Companies Act 2013. Engagements reporting under IFRS or US GAAP receive statements built to that framework's presentation from the first cycle, not converted at year-end.
Where a deliverable is headed for a statutory portal, it shows up in the shape that portal expects.
One rework cycle disappears at the filing stage. A statement in the wrong presentation gets rebuilt under deadline pressure; one prepared in the right presentation just gets filed.
Bound for a statutory portal?
- MCA/ROC filings: statements in Schedule III presentation, ready for annual filing.
- GSTN returns: figures reconciled to a ledger that closes within 5 working days of month-end, so your tax agent works from current books.
- IT e-filing: your tax agent runs the computation and lodges the return. Saramis Global does not handle tax filings at present; what it hands over is finalised accounts that agree back to the reconciled ledger.
Who this is for
Two audiences, one bookkeeping engagement
Bookkeeping and accounting supports two audiences directly: businesses running their own books, and accounting firms adding capacity for client files. Both run on the engagement model that suits them: fixed fee, block hours, dedicated staff, or part-time staff.
Adds bookkeeping capacity for client files without adding headcount. Work runs inside the software your firm already assigns to that client, reviewed before it comes back to you.
Accounting Firms →Questions
Bookkeeping and accounting, answered directly
What is included in outsourced bookkeeping and accounting?
Six deliverables: accounts payable and receivable processing, bank reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, month-end closing, management reporting, and year-end accounts finalisation with financial statement preparation. Each one is prepared in your own software against your own chart of accounts, and each one passes a second professional's review before release.
Which accounting software do you support?
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, and Zoho Books, or the software already running at your business. Migration to a new platform is not required to start; the team works inside the chart of accounts and coding structure already set up in that software. Saramis Global is open to working in whatever system you already run, and trains its team on that software rather than asking you to move.
Do we have to change accounting software to start?
No. The engagement starts inside the platform your business already runs, against the chart of accounts already set up in it. Xero, QuickBooks, Sage, and Zoho Books cover most engagements; where something else is in place, that platform stays, and the written scope names it before the first close.
Who reviews the work before it reaches me?
A Chartered Accountant, working the preparer's file as a second pair of eyes. Saramis Global runs a team of 9 Chartered Accountants, supported by MBA and BCom professionals, including part-qualified ACCA and CPA members, so the review layer never waits on one person being free. Nothing goes out unchecked, and it applies to every cycle, routine or not.
How does month-end close work?
Entries build through the month, reconciliations clear as records arrive, and a reviewer checks the close before the reporting pack goes out. The pack reaches you within 5 working days of month-end, and accounts finalisation follows the same reconciled figures at year-end.
What does the reporting pack contain?
A management report, the full set of account reconciliations, and the financial statements relevant to that cycle. Bank, AP/AR, and GL reconciliations are included as standard, not billed as an add-on, and prior-period comparisons are included once an engagement has run for more than one cycle.
Which accounting standard are the financial statements prepared under?
Ind AS, IFRS, or US GAAP, fixed in the written scope before the first close. Indian companies receive Schedule III presentation under the Companies Act 2013, and statements headed for the MCA/ROC arrive in the format that register accepts.
Who does the tax filings?
Saramis Global does not handle tax filings at present. Your authorised signatory or appointed tax agent lodges the returns, and this engagement keeps the reconciled books those returns draw from. Because the close lands within 5 working days of month-end, GST, VAT, or BAS figures exist before the filing window closes. The books are the deliverable. The filing is not.
How do we start?
Book a discovery call and share the state of your books today. Saramis Global replies with a written scope for that engagement, naming the model it runs on: fixed fee, block hours, dedicated staff, or part-time staff. Your preference sets that one; the firm holds no house default. The first reporting pack follows the same working-day commitment as every cycle after it.
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