The product

A financial department, run for you.

Scouq is a bookkeeping service with software good enough to do most of the work, and a person who signs everything that matters. Here is the whole thing, start to finish.

A month with Scouq

What happens between the first and the fifth.

All month

Transactions sort themselvesMoney in and out flows into the books as it happens. Anything unclear becomes one question on your phone. Three taps, done.

The 1st

Every account matched to the statementBank, cards, and loans reconciled to the penny. Depreciation, loan splits, and prepaids handled, which is exactly what cheap bookkeeping skips.

The 3rd

Every check passes, or the month does not closeThirteen checks run against the month. A person works through the flags and signs the close, name and date.

The 5th

Statements land, in plain EnglishProfit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and a short note on what actually happened. Most bookkeepers deliver two to four weeks after month end.

Every month after

Fewer questions each monthEverything you tell Scouq gets written down and stays. Month one might bring fifteen questions. By month six it is usually two or three.

When something is unclear, you get one question

When a fact only you know is missing — what a charge was for, whether a purchase was personal — Scouq asks in plain language, right on your phone. You answer in a tap. It never asks you to make an accounting decision, and it writes your answer down so it never has to ask twice.

Every close, verified

The thirteen checks

Every month, each of these passes or the month does not close. This is what accurate means here: mechanically, not as an adjective.

Every bank and card account reconciled to exactly zero variance

Every transaction categorized, none left in suspense

Transfers matched pairwise, never counted as income or expense

No duplicate transactions across feeds

Personal spending separated from business

Documentation attached to every material transaction

Loan payments split between principal and interest

Depreciation recorded on schedule

Prepaid expenses spread across the months they cover

Payroll postings tied to the payroll reports

Sales tax collected tied to what gets filed

Contractor payments tracked against the 1099 record

The month locked after close, with no silent edits

The human

A qualified reviewer works through every flag the checks raise: the unusual, the material, the tax-sensitive. Nothing uncertain is finalized quietly. The reviewer signs the close, name and date, and that signature is visible to you. During the founding period, the reviewer is the founder.

Ask your books anything

A bookkeeper who always picks up.

Ask a question, typed or out loud, and get an answer with the records attached. Nothing in your books changes unless you tap confirm.

Every answer arrives with the records behind itNothing changes unless you confirm itAnything needing real judgment goes to a person, and says so

Your CPA gets a package, not a shoebox

At tax time, one click produces what your CPA actually needs: statements, the general ledger, reconciliation reports, documentation, and the 1099 record. A clean handoff means less billable untangling.

Access, in one paragraph

Scouq connects read-only through the same developer platforms any approved QuickBooks or Xero app uses. It can see records and can never move money. Disconnect any time and everything stays in your ledger, which was always yours.

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What is included

Everything monthly bookkeeping should have meant all along.

Included every month

Monthly close, delivered by the 5th

Every account reconciled to zero

Depreciation, prepaids, and loan splits

1099s tracked all year, filed in January

Quarterly estimated tax figures

Profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow, and aging

One-click CPA handoff at tax time

Same-day answers to your questions

A real person reviewing every month

Not included

·Tax return preparation

·CFO or advisory services

·Audit representation

Behind on your books? Catch-up is priced separately, based on what is actually there.

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