Why Falcon exists
One of the hats,
taken off you completely.
Every owner-operated business runs on one person wearing a dozen hats and swapping between them all day.
Falcon exists to take one of those hats off you — and to do more with it than hand it back at the end of the month.
I’ve been on the other side of this. In one of my own businesses, the accountants wanted one call a month. They’d go through the books, send me a to-do list, and file. No input, no suggestions, nothing that made the numbers more useful. The work still came back to me — I was just paying someone to tell me about it.
That’s the gap Falcon was built to close. Not books done fast, but books done properly and kept current — so when you open your accounting software on a Tuesday afternoon, what’s in front of you is right, and you can decide on it.
Who you deal with
One person to deal with. A real team behind the work.
You deal with me. Not an account manager relaying your questions to someone you never meet, and not a different name in your inbox every month.
Behind me is a small team of dedicated accountants and bookkeepers with over 20 years in accounting. My own 15 years have been spent owning and running businesses, not related with finance — so I know what it’s like on your side of it. Your books don’t get handed to a junior or dropped into a queue.
Falcon is small on purpose. You get people who know your business, and you always know who to call.
What we've learned
What we’ve learned about numbers
None of this is complicated and none of it is new. It’s just not how most bookkeeping gets done — and it’s why Falcon works the way it does.
Books should match reality.
Your bank, your accounting software and your tax return should all describe the same business. When they don’t, you end up running on two sets of numbers — the ones that get filed, and the ones you guess at in your head — and it’s the guess you make decisions on. Reconciling properly isn’t tidiness. It’s what makes the numbers safe to use.
Current, not just correct.
Most bookkeeping happens in a catch-up window — monthly if you’re lucky, quarterly if you’re not. By the time it’s right, the month it describes is over and the decision has already been made. We work the books daily, then close formally on a fixed date each month. Correct is the minimum. Current is what makes it worth paying for.
Useful means you can act on it.
A number you can’t do anything with is trivia. Revenue up 6% tells you almost nothing on its own. What’s owed to you, what you owe, which work actually made money, whether next month is covered — those are the questions an owner asks, so those are the questions the reporting should answer.
You shouldn’t have to ask.
Your numbers come to you, in plain English, in a format you can use. No login you never remember, no report you have to translate, no waiting until it occurs to you to chase someone. If you have to ask where your numbers are, the system isn’t working.
Reporting isn’t the job.
Handing an owner a list of what’s wrong is the easy part — I’ve been on the receiving end of that, and it’s not much use. The job is fixing what’s broken, tightening what’s loose, and making next month cleaner than this one. If nothing has improved after a year, we haven’t done anything.
How it actually works
How it actually works
1
Exploratory call
We start with a conversation about your business — how it runs, where the time is going, and what you actually need to see. The plan gets built from that. It’s a conversation, not a pitch you have to sit through.
2
Onboarding
A plain-English agreement, then we connect securely to your bank feeds and your accounting software. Your file stays yours — QuickBooks Online or Xero, in your name, with your access. All of it is remote; nothing needs you to be anywhere.
3
Clear Start — if your books are behind
Most owners come to us with a backlog. We sort that out before anything else: months or years of history reconciled, errors fixed, and a foundation the rest can stand on. Defined scope, defined price, defined end date. If you go monthly afterwards, you don’t pay onboarding twice.
4
The monthly rhythm
Then it settles into routine.
Your books are worked daily, so the file is current whenever you open it
Closed on a fixed date every month — the same date, not ‘sometime after month end’
Your reporting pack arrives with a plain-English page on the front
Questions get answered quickly and resolved effectively
What we don’t do
What we don’t do
We’re not a CPA firm.
We don’t file your returns and we don’t represent you at the IRS. We work alongside your CPA and hand them books that are already clean and closed — which usually makes their job cheaper as well.
We don’t move your money.
Bills are captured, coded and queued for your approval. The payment is made by you, from your account. Nobody here has the ability to send your money anywhere.
We’re not the cheapest.
Plenty of services will categorise your transactions for less. What you get back is the bare minimum — books that are correct at year end and not much use before it. That’s not the job we’re doing.
We don’t lock you in.
No long-term contract. If it isn’t working, you leave.
Start with a conversation.
Tell us how your business runs and where the time is going. We’ll tell you what we’d do about it and what it would cost. No obligation either way.