Books that pass
the test you didn't see coming.
Accounting, the monthly close, and a management information pack built to the standard a real decision would test against. Tool-agnostic. Bespoke. Partner-led.
Most books are kept
to satisfy statute.
Ours are kept to take a decision.
Hiring decisions. Pricing decisions. Capital allocation. Whether a product line is earning its keep. Whether the working capital can hold another quarter. Most books answer none of these — they were never built to. Ours are kept to the standard that holds up under any decision the business needs to take. The same standard that, when a deal does arrive, makes the books deal-ready by definition.
02 · What we run
Five lines.
One continuous practice.
Invoicing & receivables
Customer invoicing on cadence. Receivables actively followed up, not just reported. Clean ageing reads as a well-run business; stale ageing reads as a problem.
Accounting & books maintenance
Vendor bills, payroll journals, bank reconciliations, asset capitalisation, prepayments — entered and reviewed for cut-off, coding, and policy. Chart of accounts built around how your business reports.
Monthly close & decision-ready MIS
Books closed by a fixed date each month. MIS pack — three statements reconciled, KPIs, working capital, variance commentary, working papers indexed and filed. Built to answer the questions a business actually has to take decisions on. When a transaction does arrive, the same file is already where Dissent Diligence would want to find it.
Reporting & compliance feeds
GST workings, TDS computations, advance tax, audit schedules — flow out of the same clean ledger, prepared on a defined calendar. Statutory filing sits with the Dissent Compliance practice. We feed it the data, ready to use.
Workflow design
The right setup, chosen on the merits of your business — not on a software vendor's commission stack. We have no partnerships with any platform. Zoho, Tally, QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, custom — whatever fits.
03 · The standard we hold
What makes an MIS pack
decision-ready?
The same monthly numbers can be a board update, or the basis on which a business actually takes a decision. The difference isn't in the data — it's in the discipline, the documentation, and the structure of the file.
A typical monthly MIS
- Closed when someone gets to it — often weeks late
- Revenue recognised against invoices, not against a written policy
- Accruals approximated; related-party entries buried
- Variance read as "revenue is up because of higher sales"
- Working papers scattered across spreadsheets and emails
- Schedules don't tie to the GL; GL doesn't tie to last month's close
- By the time a real question arrives, every number has to be re-derived from source
Our decision-ready MIS
- Closed by a fixed date every month, with cut-off enforced
- Revenue recognised against a written policy, Ind-AS / IFRS aligned
- Every accrual, prepayment, related-party entry supported in the file
- Variance commentary explains why — operational, not arithmetic
- A single indexed working-paper file per period, ready to share
- Every schedule tied to the GL; GL reconciled period-on-period
- When a question arrives — internal, board, lender, or buyer — the file opens to the answer
Decision-ready is the standard. Deal-ready is what that standard makes possible.
04 · When the test arrives
When the deal does arrive,
the file is already ready.
Books kept to a deal-ready standard are the upstream half of the work. The downstream half — running the data room, fielding the buyer's questions, defending the numbers under diligence — sits with our M&A practice. One firm. One file. No handoff cost.
Dissent Diligence →- Sell-side preparationData room structured, vendor diligence pack, anticipated buyer questions pre-answered.
- Data room managementIndexed, version-controlled, access-tiered. Buyer requests routed and tracked.
- Q&A coordinationBuyer queries answered against your books — by the same team that closed them.
- Buy-side diligenceWhen you're the buyer — quality of earnings, working capital tests, red-flag detection.
05 · How we set up
No software contracts.
No partner commissions.
The setup that fits.
Most outsourcing firms operate on partnerships with a specific software vendor. The vendor pays a referral; every client gets the same platform; the workflow becomes whatever the platform allows. We earn no commissions from any vendor — so the setup we design is chosen on the merits of how your business operates, not on what fits our commission model.
Tools we set up & run on
06 · Brief a mandate
Start a
mandate.
Tell us where your books are today and where you need them to be. We'll come back within two working days with an honest view of scope, fit, and whether we're the right firm for this.
What happens after you submit: A practitioner reviews your brief. If we're a fit, we send a follow-up note and propose a discovery call.
The diagnostic phase is a paid scoping exercise — fee credited against the mandate if you engage us, retained if you don't. We don't pitch over email. We diagnose first.
Every submission reviewed by a named practitioner
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