Which is why you don't have to choose between fast and right. Skyline Bookkeeping was built inside Skyline Analytics®, an FP&A and data analytics firm — the close is engineered and automated rather than staffed, and every engagement produces clean, consistent, analytics-ready books.
Speed and accuracy pull against each other, and the standard fix is more people — which adds variance, and variance is exactly what damages accuracy, slows the close, and raises the fee. We fix it with technology instead. Consistent multi-unit books are the harder version of this problem, not the easier one: more accounts, more entities, more intercompany, more places for a month to go wrong. We built the systems to carry that complexity, which is why the close holds its shape as you add locations instead of degrading.
Coding rules live in the system, not in someone's head — which is the only reason your locations are comparable to each other at all.
Nothing is released on an unreconciled account. Exceptions get raised to you, not carried forward into next month.
The close runs on a sequence, not on availability. Your delivery date holds in the months when someone is out.
The repetitive work is carried by automation we built in-house, so our cost to serve isn't set by how many hands touch the file — and the price reflects that. Pricing is per location and predictable, which means you can model the next three openings before you sign the leases, and adding a location is a setup task rather than an accounting project.
Skyline Analytics® has spent years building custom reporting, data pipelines, and machine-learning systems for middle-market operators — including SkAI®, trained and validated on more than 100,000 days of operating data across 500+ locations. Skyline Bookkeeping exists for a specific reason: we kept being handed books that couldn't support the reporting we were being asked to build on top of them. Clean books aren't the hard part of what we do, but they are the part everything else depends on.
Both founders are Big Four–trained CPAs, and our founder, Chris Pumo, holds the AICPA's Elijah Watt Sells Award — earned by passing all four sections of the CPA Exam on the first attempt with a cumulative average above 95.50. His exam year produced 60 recipients out of more than 90,000 candidates — the top 0.07%.
What that means for your books is simple enough. The standard here was set by someone exacting about detail, and it shows in how your chart of accounts is built, what gets flagged during the close, and which questions we ask in month one rather than year three.
One plan, priced per location, covering the full monthly cycle from transaction capture through delivered statements — so the answer to "who handles that?" is the same every month.
A requirement, not an upgrade — it costs nothing to do right the first time and a great deal to retrofit.
We look at the current file, the account structure, and where the last close actually landed. You get a written read on condition and cleanup scope before anyone signs anything.
Structure set once to hold the units you have plus the ones you're about to open. Any prior-period cleanup is scoped and quoted separately, never folded into your monthly fee.
Records in, close runs, statements out on your date. Same sequence, same date, same standard every month.
Because the books are already analytics-ready, the step up is a configuration — not a migration, a re-implementation, or a fresh set of books.
Full-cycle monthly bookkeeping for franchise and multi-unit operators. Reconciled, consistent, and delivered on a fixed date.
Everything above, every monthOutsourced FP&A and custom reporting — location-level dashboards, KPI packages, budgets, forecasts, and board-ready materials built directly on the books we keep.
Explore Skyline Analytics® →Machine-learning forecasts for revenue, labor, and ordering, from Skyline Essentials™ — built on the books we keep.
Explore SkAI® →Thirty minutes is enough to tell you whether we are a fit, what the cleanup looks like, and what the monthly number would be. If we are not the right practice for you, we will say so on the call.