Accounting for Professional Services

Know which engagements actually make money.

Utilization, realization, and project margin decide whether a services firm grows or just stays busy. OnNumbers gives you engagement-level visibility into where the money is made, plus a close you can count on every month.

Per-engagement

Profitability

Predictable

Monthly close

Continuously tracked

Margin visibility

What gets in the way

The problems we see most

  • Project profitability is a guess until well after the work is delivered.
  • Time, billing, and accounting live in three systems that never agree.
  • Partners make staffing decisions without current margin data.
  • Month-end close slips, and reporting arrives too late to act on.

How OnNumbers helps

What changes when you work with us

Engagement-level reporting

See revenue, cost, and margin by client, project, and engagement, down from the firm-level total.

Retainers handled cleanly

Recurring revenue and retainers recognized correctly, with clear visibility into what has been earned.

Predictable close

A consistent, tracked month-end close so leadership reporting lands on schedule.

Margin visibility

Understand which work types and clients drive profit, and which quietly erode it.

Every plan includes the full platform and core bookkeeping. See exactly what's included at each plan →

The OnNumbers platform

What changes when the work is visible

The same software your accountants work in is the software you watch. Below is what each part of it actually does for your week, with the capability behind it named underneath.

Live work trackingActive now
  • M

    Mary

    Reconciling bank accounts

    60%
  • J

    John

    Reviewing AP

    Completed
  • S

    Sarah

    Waiting for client invoice

    On you

See the work, not just the result.

Log in and watch your accounting team work in real time: who is on what, how far along they are, and what is waiting on you. The end-of-month report stops being a surprise, because you have followed every step to get there.

Month-end stops being a surprise. You can see the close is on track before it’s late, instead of chasing somebody for a status update.

Follow month-end step by step, with a live progress bar covering bank recon, AP, AR, accruals, and sales tax.

Financial Close

Problems surface the day they appear rather than six weeks later, while they’re still cheap to fix.

Structured daily analysis of revenue, cash, runway, and anomalies. You see it the same day, well before month-end.

AI Pulse

Nobody rebuilds the same spreadsheet every month, and you know which numbers moved without having to ask anyone.

Live KPI and KRA dashboards and scorecards, so you can track performance without rebuilding spreadsheets.

KPI Engine

You know today whether your books can be trusted, rather than finding out halfway through a diligence process.

An AI-maintained account health score with open problems and prioritized recommendations.

Review Account

A board or lender request takes minutes. You’re not assembling a deck the night before the meeting.

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and trial balance with branded PDF and Excel export.

Reporting Engine

Runway becomes a number you can act on, instead of a spreadsheet cell somebody last touched two months ago.

Budget vs. actual and rolling forecasts tied to your books, so runway decisions use current numbers.

Budget & Forecast

You get the answer without commissioning a report and waiting a week to read it.

AI-powered insight packs for AR, AP, revenue, expenses, and cash. Answers without building reports.

AI Financial Insights

A finance question takes about thirty seconds, rather than three days of email with your bookkeeper.

Ask questions in natural language. AI returns charts, tables, and answers grounded in your data.

Ask AI

You stop paying the same invoice twice. Duplicate payments and unusual vendor activity get flagged the day they land, well before a year-end review would find them.

AI-powered checks for duplicate payments, unusual vendor activity, and risk, surfaced early.

Vendor Compliance

You can see what you actually spend and with whom, instead of four spellings of the same vendor scattered across the ledger.

AI-assisted vendor dedup, enrichment, and risk scoring, with spend visibility and ledger write-back.

Vendor Expense Management

Miscoded and out-of-policy spend gets caught as it lands, so year-end is a close rather than a cleanup project. Every line carries a control on it, and an audit trail behind it.

AI classification suggestions, policy rules, risk scoring, and approvals on GL transactions.

Transaction Assurance

You can answer “how are we doing” on any day of the month, without waiting for the next scheduled report.

On-demand AI-written read of your financial position, key trends, and what to watch. Run it when you need it.

AI Assessment

Every capability above is included with every plan, at no additional cost. See how the platform works →

Ready to see your firm’s numbers clearly?

Show us your current setup and we’ll map out what real visibility would look like for a firm like yours.