athycal
PE-Backed Portfolio Company Advisory

Board-ready financials in 60 days.

Athycal transforms chaotic portfolio-company accounting into a disciplined, investor-grade finance function, so your board pack writes itself and your deal team gets answers, not excuses.

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60-dayaccounting transformation
$40M–$2BPE-backed company range
CPA-ledfractional controller team
The Problem We Solve

The portfolio-company accounting gap

After close, most portfolio companies run on startup-grade accounting: a 20-day close, spreadsheet consolidations, no flux analysis, and a CFO who can't trust the numbers in the board deck. PE firms feel it as slow reporting, restatement risk, and value leaking through bad data.

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Slow, unreliable closes

Month-end drags past day 15–20. The board gets stale numbers, and every close feels like a fire drill.

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Fragmented systems

QuickBooks stretched past its limit, manual consolidations, no audit trail. Scale breaks what used to work.

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No forward visibility

No reliable forecast, no KPI discipline, no variance analysis the deal team can underwrite against.

60days to a transformed close
5-daytarget month-end close
100%board-pack ready reporting
$40M–$2BPE-backed company range
How It Works

From chaos to close in four phases

We don't parachute in with a slide deck. We embed with your team, fix the close, harden the controls, and hand you a finance function that runs without us.

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Month-end close dashboard
01

Diagnose

Discovery call: we learn how your close, controls, systems, and team stack up against the PE standard.

02

Stabilize

Quick wins in weeks 1–3: close calendar, checklist discipline, and flux thresholds that stop the bleeding.

03

Transform

Weeks 4–8: rewire the chart of accounts, consolidation, and reporting into an investor-grade machine.

04

Sustain

Documented playbooks, trained staff, and KPI cadence. The function runs itself after we step back.

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What we take off your plate

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Fractional Controller

Senior CPA leadership for the accounting function: close ownership, technical accounting, and team mentorship, without the full-time hire.

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Close Management

We run your month-end end-to-end: calendar, checklists, reconciliations, and flux analysis delivered on day 5.

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Systems & ERP Optimization

Chart of accounts redesign, consolidation automation, and getting real ROI out of NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or QuickBooks.

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Transaction Readiness

Buy-side and sell-side accounting support: quality-of-earnings prep, opening balance sheets, and audit readiness.

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FAQ

Common questions

How is this different from hiring a controller?
A full-time controller hire takes 3–6 months and costs $180K+ all-in. We embed in days, bring PE-portfolio pattern recognition from day one, and transfer the playbook to your team so the function sustains itself.
Do you replace our existing accounting staff?
No. We lead and upskill them. Most engagements end with your existing team running a dramatically better close, supported by the systems and checklists we install.
What size companies do you work with?
Typically PE-backed portfolio companies from $10M to $250M in revenue, especially in the first 100 days post-acquisition or ahead of an exit.
What happens on the discovery call?
A focused conversation about your close timeline, control environment, and reporting. You get an honest read on where you stand and what it would take to fix it. No obligation.

Your next board meeting could run on trusted numbers.

Start with a free discovery call. You'll get an honest read on where your close stands and what it would take to fix it.

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