Chart of accounts, subsidiaries, and classes
Advisory
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Operating NetSuite for growth-stage companies
Configure the system, then run the close inside it.
Finance leads whose books, entities, or reporting have outgrown the current ledger, and who do not have a team to administer NetSuite after go-live.
The work
The close breaks when the ledger cannot carry the business.
A second entity, deferred revenue, or a board that wants the numbers by segment shows up before anyone is ready to hire a NetSuite administrator.
A typical implementation configures the system and hands it back. The company then owns the administration, the chart of accounts, and the close as three separate jobs. PIF Advisory is a certified NetSuite partner. The same team configures the system and runs the monthly close in it.
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How the work runs
The engagement starts from the close the company already has, not from a blank chart of accounts. Subsidiaries, items, and classes are set up to match how revenue and cost actually land. Each month the close, the reconciliations, and the statements are produced in NetSuite.
When the business adds an entity or changes how it sells, the system is updated by the team that already runs the books.
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What this engagement is not
This is not a license sale, and it is not a project that ends at go-live. Companies that already have a finance team and a NetSuite administrator do not need this engagement. They need bookkeeping, or an outsourced CFO, on the system they already run.
Scope
What this practice covers.
The operating work inside this engagement, named clearly.
Configuration matched to the close
Monthly close inside NetSuite
Reconciliations and statements
Segment or department reporting, when the business needs it
Handoff between the CRM and NetSuite, when that is in scope
From the library
Related notes
Notes from the operating team that sit next to this practice.
FAQs
What to know before we begin.
The questions operators ask before an engagement starts.
Configuration of NetSuite and the monthly close inside it. The client owns the environment. PIF Advisory administers the system and produces the close.
Bookkeeping is the close. This practice is the close when the ledger is NetSuite, including the configuration that makes the close possible.
The CFO work is cash, the board pack, and the next round. NetSuite work is the system and the close that feed that pack. The two can run together.
No. Scope and price are set in a first conversation. PIF Advisory does not publish rates.
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NetSuite
Configure NetSuite, then run the close inside it.