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Clean private company
A complete first draft, notes and cash-flow statement without hiring permanent reporting staff.
Executive Compass™ Financial Reporting
Financial statements that stand up to the next question.
Technical drafting, disclosure support and consolidation for finance teams that need a coherent, review-ready financial statement set without adding permanent reporting capacity.
No assurance is provided.Executive Compass™ provides management-support drafting and technical financial-reporting assistance. Management retains responsibility for the financial statements.
The engagement proposition
The output is a reporting instrument.
An approved trial balance, accounting schedules and management judgements are converted into a coherent set of financial statements under the selected framework.
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CFO under pressure
Technical drafting capacity, disclosure discipline and a visible issues list for management and external reviewers.
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Multi-entity group
Consolidation-ready statements, foreign-currency translation, eliminations and group disclosures.
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Conversion or transaction
First-time adoption, restatement, acquisition accounting, carve-out or public-reporting support through scoped workstreams.
Drafting discipline
Structured for scrutiny—not merely formatted for submission.
Presentation work is separated from unresolved accounting decisions. Material notes are linked to schedules, policy judgements or management representations.
Framework-aware architecture
Statements, notes and policies are built around the applicable GAAP rather than copied from a generic template.
Clear evidence trail
Material disclosures link to lead schedules, policy judgements and management-owned inputs.
Visible issues register
Recognition, measurement and disclosure questions remain separate from presentation.
Internal consistency
Cross-casting, comparative checks, note references and approved trial-balance tie-out.
Controlled revisions
Consolidated review rounds, version control and explicit treatment of change events.
Review-ready handover
Editable statements, locked PDF, mapping support and a final-change summary.
Commercial framework
Pricing by reporting framework and complexity.
Select a framework to view the indicative fixed-fee ladder directly. Data readiness, entity structure, accounting judgement, disclosure burden and the review environment determine the final tier.
Clean concise set
£750–£1,100
FRS 105 or a straightforward FRS 102 Section 1A entity with a complete close and no material technical issue.
5–8 business days
Professional full set
£1,100–£1,800
An uncomplicated private company requiring standard disclosures and an accounting-policy refresh.
7–10 business days
Technical private company
£2,900–£4,800
Full FRS 102 or material revenue, lease, tax, impairment, provision or going-concern requirements.
10–15 business days
Two to five entities
£6,500–£11,900
Consolidation, eliminations, foreign currency and multiple management or external reviewers.
15–25 business days
Conversion or transaction
From £13,600
Transition, acquisition or disposal accounting, restatement, carve-out or regulated reporting.
Scoped by workstream
Clean private entity
$1,250–$1,900
Concise private-company statements and notes from an approved trial balance and stable policies.
5–8 business days
Professional full set
$1,900–$3,000
Standard private-company disclosures, comparative statements and basic policy drafting.
7–10 business days
Technical private company
$5,100–$8,500
ASC 606, ASC 842, income taxes, stock compensation, debt, impairment or going concern.
10–18 business days
Private group reporting
$11,200–$18,700
Subsidiaries, foreign currency, eliminations and multi-entity disclosure requirements.
15–25 business days
SEC readiness or conversion
From $23,800
Acquisition, pro forma, first-time US GAAP, carve-out or public-company support alongside appointed advisers.
Scoped by workstream
Clean private entity
$1,600–$2,400
£1,280–£1,920. Routine transactions, stable policies and no consolidation or first-time adoption.
6–10 business days
Complete IFRS set
$2,400–$3,900
£1,920–£3,120. Complete statement set, comparative notes and policy and judgement refresh.
8–12 business days
Judgement-heavy reporting
$6,100–$10,200
£4,900–£8,200. Significant IFRS 9, 15, 16, IAS 12, IAS 36, IAS 37 or related disclosures.
12–18 business days
Multi-entity group
$13,300–$22,100
£10,500–£17,700. Consolidation, foreign currency, NCI, associates or multiple components.
18–30 business days
Adoption or transaction
From $27,200
From £21,800. IFRS 1, IFRS 18, IFRS 19, acquisition, disposal, restatement or listed reporting.
Scoped by workstream
Indicative ranges exclude VAT or sales taxes, filing charges, specialist reports and third-party software. A 45-minute scoping call and review of the prior-year financial statements, current trial balance and entity structure are required before a fixed fee is confirmed. The downloadable proposal contains the complete deliverables, exclusions, add-ons and fee modifiers.
Delivery method
A controlled reporting cycle with explicit gates.
Each stage produces a visible client decision or output, from the confirmed scope through to the approved final draft and handover pack.
Scope
Confirm framework, tier, fee, timetable and the minimum information request.
Map
Map the approved trial balance and schedules into the reporting architecture.
Draft
Build primary statements, accounting policies, notes and cross-references.
Challenge
Test internal consistency, comparatives, note support and disclosure completeness.
Revise
Process one consolidated response for each agreed review round.
Finalise
Lock approved wording and final numbers, then hand over editable and PDF formats.
Illustrative capability
Review the offering and a complete consolidated set.
The proposal sets out the service architecture and commercial framework. The fictional Northstar sample demonstrates the standard of U.S. GAAP consolidated drafting and note design.
Executive Compass™Financial Reporting Services
Service proposal
UK GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS tiers, complexity gates, deliverables, add-ons, change rules and engagement boundaries.
Illustrative · U.S. GAAPConsolidated Financial Statements
Northstar consolidated sample
A fictional and unaudited 21-page private-group set covering consolidation, foreign-currency translation, noncontrolling interests and detailed disclosures.
Illustrative and unaudited. All Northstar entity details, names, addresses, transactions, balances and events are fictional. The sample demonstrates drafting and presentation capability only and does not contain an audit, review, compilation report or assurance conclusion.
Engagement boundary
Responsibilities remain explicit.
Drafting support is valuable precisely because management responsibility and the limits of the service remain clear.
Included in the selected tier
- Financial statement architecture and presentation under the agreed framework
- Primary statements, comparative information and note disclosures included in the package
- Cross-casting, internal consistency and tie-out to the approved trial balance
- Accounting-policy drafting based on management-approved positions
- Drafting issues register and management information request list
- Agreed review rounds and editable or PDF handover formats
Excluded unless separately scoped
- Audit, review, assurance conclusion or independent accountant's report
- Bookkeeping remediation, transaction processing or source-document reconstruction
- Tax returns, tax opinions, valuation reports, actuarial work or legal opinions
- Companies House, HMRC, EDGAR, XBRL, iXBRL or local statutory submission
- Management approval of accounting estimates or going-concern assumptions
- Listed, regulated or public-interest work without a separate specialist scope
A practical next step
Determine the framework, complexity gate and readiness for fixed-fee drafting.
The initial scope conversation reviews the prior-year statements, current trial balance, entity structure and material technical areas.