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SaaS Accounting Built for Modern Subscription Businesses

SaaS companies scale fast. Your accounting should, too.

Resolve Works specializes in SaaS accounting solutions that grow with you, from accurate day-to-day bookkeeping to investor-ready reporting, automated revenue recognition and CFO-level strategy.

Whether you’re an early-stage founder building your first financial foundation or a Series A team navigating increasing complexity, we deliver the clarity, structure and insight you need to move confidently.

Why SaaS Companies Need Specialized Accounting

Subscription businesses don’t operate like traditional companies — and their accounting shouldn’t either. SaaS teams face challenges that standard bookkeeping simply can’t support:

  • Recurring billing cycles (monthly, quarterly, annually)
  • Complexity around revenue recognition (ASC 606)
  • Deferred revenue schedules
  • Customer churn and expansion dynamics
  • ARR, MRR, CAC, LTV — metrics that matter to investors
  • Multi-entity or multi-state payroll and compliance
  • Heavy reliance on integrations and tech-stack coordination

When these systems aren’t set up correctly, founders end up with:

  • Inaccurate numbers
  • Spreadsheets everywhere
  • Difficulty raising money
  • No visibility into performance
  • Stressful year-end closes

As CEO and Founder Jillian Mittelmark, CPA, puts it:

“We help SaaS companies move from manual spreadsheets to scalable, automated systems that deliver clarity, compliance and confidence.”

The Inflection Points That Require Stronger Financial Systems

The Inflection Points That Require Stronger Financial Systems

Most SaaS teams reach a moment where spreadsheets break and internal processes can’t keep up. Common inflection points include:

  • Preparing for a seed, Series A or Series B raise
  • Adding headcount across engineering, customer success or sales
  • Introducing new pricing or packaging
  • Expanding into new states or creating a new entity
  • Spikes in revenue or churn that require deeper analysis
  • Board members requesting cleaner, more reliable reporting
  • Month-end closes taking longer than they should
  • Difficulty understanding true cash runway

These transitions expose gaps in systems, data flows and financial reporting. By partnering with Resolve Works early, SaaS companies get ahead of the complexity and build a finance structure that is scalable, auditable and aligned with investor expectations.

The Resolve Works SaaS Accounting Framework

We support SaaS finance teams across three layers of growth:

SaaS Accounting Services: Your Financial Foundation

Daily operations | Compliance | Accuracy

Ideal for early-stage SaaS companies that need trustworthy numbers and a consistent financial baseline.

Includes:

  • Transaction coding & reconciliations
  • AP & AR processing
  • Payroll coordination
  • State & local compliance
  • Accurate deferred revenue tracking
  • Clean books for founders and tax CPAs

The outcome:
With a reliable foundation, you get clean numbers, faster closes, and fewer surprises. Founders gain visibility into cash, performance and expenses — without drowning in manual spreadsheets.

SaaS Controllership Services: Turning Numbers Into Insight

Reporting | Forecasting | Operational control

For SaaS companies with increasing revenue, complex billing cycles or investor expectations.

Includes:

  • Financial reporting with SaaS-specific insights
  • Budget-to-actual analysis
  • Spend management & approvals
  • Short-term cash forecasting
  • Multi-state payroll oversight
  • Sales-tax nexus monitoring
  • Revenue recognition setup (ASC 606)

The outcome:
Controllers give you structured reporting, real-time forecasting and clarity at a unit-economic level. You get dashboards, variance analysis and insights that drive smart decisions.

“We follow a full balance-sheet reconciliation process,” said Jillian. “Essentially an investor-ready financial package.”

Fractional SaaS CFO Services: Your Full Finance Function

Strategy | Leadership | Investor alignment

Built for SaaS companies preparing for scaling, fundraising or expansion.

Includes:

  • Long-term financial modeling
  • Annual budgeting cycles
  • Board and investor reporting
  • Scenario planning
  • Fundraising and due diligence prep
  • SaaS metric optimization (ARR, LTV/CAC, churn, expansion)

The outcome:

A SaaS CFO brings strategic foresight — from capital planning to pricing to hiring. You gain a financial leader who communicates with investors, shapes your roadmap and turns metrics into momentum.

Perfect for:

Founders gearing up for new markets, rapid hiring, Series A–B raises or multi-entity growth.

How We Work With SaaS Companies

At Resolve Works, we don’t just process transactions we build the financial infrastructure behind growing subscription businesses. Our team embeds into your operations, learning your product, understanding your billing logic and mapping your metrics to the realities of your model.

Because SaaS finance depends on accuracy across your entire revenue engine, we coordinate:

  • Billing platforms (Stripe, Chargebee, Recurly, Paddle)
  • CRM and sales systems (Salesforce, HubSpot)
  • Subscription metrics tools
  • Accounting platforms (QuickBooks Online + integrations)
  • Payroll and HR systems
  • State, local and multi-entity compliance

Most founders come to us when they can no longer trust their numbers — or when an investor asks a question the internal team can’t answer. We build long-term solutions: clean processes, automated systems and reporting that makes sense to operators, boards and diligence teams alike.

What Makes Resolve Works Different for SaaS

  • Innovative and Agile: As a startup your innovative ideas and agile methodologies require a special type of support. Living on the cutting edge of technology and business disruption, you need a team that can match your agility, grow with you, and come with immediate solutions.

  • Resource-Constrained: A fundamental challenge of any startup is the effort to make huge gains while balancing limited resources. As a founder, you need to make strategic decisions about where to allocate funds and how to maximize your impact with minimal overhead.

  • Rapid Growth Trajectory: If you are planning for rapid growth and are looking to scale quickly, and you need a robust support team to support your efforts so you can focus on your core business goals.

Client Success Story: Automating Revenue Recognition for a SaaS Platform

The Situation

A rapidly growing B2B SaaS company was processing 1,000–1,500 invoices per month, with hundreds requiring deferred revenue schedules. All revenue recognition was tracked manually in spreadsheets outside the accounting system.

The Problem

Manual processes created gaps in accuracy, visibility and investor readiness:

  • No clarity into earned vs. deferred revenue
  • No customer-level reporting
  • Inaccurate or incomplete MRR/ARR metrics
  • A single monthly journal entry that lacked detail
  • Slow, error-prone month-end closes

Leadership couldn’t trust the numbers — and investors were asking questions the team struggled to answer.

The Solution

Resolve Works implemented FinOptimal, integrating automated revenue recognition directly into QuickBooks Online. This eliminated spreadsheets and ensured every invoice generated a correct amortization schedule.

Key improvements included:

  • Automated processing of 1,000+ invoices each month
  • Correct recognition of 400+ deferred revenue contracts
  • Clean, auditable data flowing into QuickBooks
  • Cohort-level and customer-level insight

The Results

The company’s entire revenue engine transformed:

  • 100% accuracy between QuickBooks and automation reports
  • Real-time visibility into revenue performance
  • Accurate, investor-ready MRR/ARR
  • A scalable financial foundation designed for growth and fundraising

In Jillian’s Words

Automation doesn’t just clean up your books. It also gives you the clarity to grow,” said Jillian Mittelmark, CPA.

FAQ: SaaS Accounting Questions We Hear Every Week

Earlier than most founders think. Clean systems from day one make fundraising, valuation and audit readiness dramatically easier.

Yes, including automation through tools like FinOptimal, Stripe, Chargebee and custom integrations.

Absolutely. Upgrades, downgrades, proration and multi-year deals are common scenarios.
Yes. We prepare investor-ready financials, scenario modeling, cohort analysis and data-room support.

No. Resolve Works supports SaaS companies nationwide through a fully virtual, collaborative model.

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