This page says plainly what Scouq does and does not do. Publishing it is deliberate: in a money business, the boundary of the work is part of the work.
What Scouq is engaged to do
- 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
QuickBooks Online or Xero remains your official ledger and system of record at all times. Scouq works within it and never becomes the system of record itself.
What Scouq is not engaged to do
- Tax return preparation or filing of income tax returns
- CFO, investment, or advisory services of any kind
- Audit representation or attestation services
- Payroll processing
- Legal advice
Scouq is not a CPA firm and does not provide professional opinions. Where your situation needs one, we say so and point you to the right professional rather than improvising.
How judgment is handled
Routine work is automated and verified mechanically. Anything uncertain, unusual, material, or tax-sensitive is escalated to qualified human review before it is finalized — never guessed at quietly. Scouq asks you only for facts that only you can know, such as what a specific charge was for. It does not ask you to make accounting decisions.
Catch-up work
Bringing books current is a separate, one-time engagement, scoped from the actual condition of the records and quoted in writing before it begins. It is never silently folded into the monthly service.
Access
Scouq operates on read-only connections to your ledger and financial accounts, granted by you and revocable by you at any time. Scouq cannot move money.