Supporting Strategies

Supporting Strategies provides outsourced bookkeeping, controller services and back-office operational support to small and mid-size businesses. The work covers day-to-day bookkeeping, month-end close, monthly financial reporting and analysis, payroll administration, and compliance tasks such as 1099s, sales tax filings and financial audit assistance.

Each client is assigned a directly aligned team rather than a single bookkeeper, which the firm says allows cross-training, workload coverage, segregation of duties and continuity when someone leaves. Service packages are modular: a client can take core bookkeeping only, or add expanded reporting with weekly cash flash, forecasting, and class, location and budget analysis, or outsource the whole financial and payroll operation. Controller-level oversight is sold separately for businesses that need reporting discipline and forecasting but not a full in-house finance department.

The company was founded in 2004 in Greater Boston and moved to a franchise model, launching its first franchise in 2013 and growing to 80 independently owned and operated offices across the United States. It says its professionals are 100% U.S.-based, typically hold a bachelor's degree in accounting or a related field, and many hold an advanced degree or a CPA designation. It reports supporting more than 4,000 companies, with published material on law firms and healthcare practices.

Offices are independently owned, so the team, the pricing and the responsiveness are set locally. Ask the specific office for its package pricing and who will be on your team before signing.