Management
Outsourced Accounting
Take the back office off the leadership team
A function that scales cleanly as the company grows
The work
Senior-led work that holds up.
We run critical back-office and finance functions so leadership can focus on growth, customers, and strategy — not month-end close and AP backlogs.
Who it’s for
Small and mid-size businesses whose accounting and finance function is consuming leadership attention, producing unreliable reporting, or simply not keeping pace with the company's growth.
The critical turn
When the financials are consistently late, the reporting does not support real decisions, or the controller role has become a revolving door. When the back office is a source of risk rather than a source of confidence.
How it works
A clear path to a result that holds
Assess the current state — systems, processes, staff, and reporting — and establish a transition plan with minimal disruption
Bring the books current, establish reliable close processes, and build the reporting the business actually needs
Run the function on an ongoing basis: accounting, reporting, controls, and coordination with tax and audit advisors
Build the systems and documentation to support a future in-house team — or continue as the long-term outsourced solution
What we do
What every engagement includes
Full-Function Operation
Operate the accounting and finance function end to end
Timely Reporting
Deliver timely, accurate financials and management reporting — every month
Scalable Controls
Design and maintain controls, processes, and systems that scale with the business
Advisor Coordination
Coordinate seamlessly with tax, audit, and other external advisors
Senior Interpretation
Provide senior interpretation of results — not just the numbers, but what they mean
Outcomes
What you walk away with
Reliable, On-Time Financials
Reliable financials, delivered on time, every reporting period
Decision-Ready Reporting
Management reporting that actually supports decisions
Lower Total Cost
Lower total cost than building and maintaining the function in-house
Leadership Time Back
Leadership time returned to the business — not consumed by back-office issues
Scales With Growth
A function that scales cleanly as the company grows
Why Inglewood
Experience on every side of the table.
Senior accounting and finance professionals supported by the full firm. We do the work, stand behind it, and tell you what the numbers actually mean — not just what they say. We are not a staffing solution; we are a finance function.
Common questions
Questions we hear early
We take over the finance back office end to end — transaction processing through monthly close, controller-level review and reconciliations, and management reporting on a fixed cadence. You name the functions you want us to run, and we handle them so leadership is freed from the day-to-day of the books. It ranges from a few functions to a full finance operation, depending on what you need.
Owners and management teams whose finance function has outgrown its current setup — where books arrive late or unreliably, or where back-office work is pulling leadership away from running the business. It fits companies where decisions are resting on stale numbers but hiring a full in-house finance department makes no sense at their size. In short, you want controller-grade discipline without the full-time overhead.
The clearest signal is when your books are consistently late or unreliable and important decisions are being made on numbers you don't fully trust. It's also a natural step ahead of a transition — a financing, a sale, or a leadership change — when you want a steady hand on the numbers before your next move. If you're weighing a full finance hire and the math doesn't work at your size, that's the moment to talk.
We start by assessing your books, systems, and close process end to end, then take over the functions you name through a structured transition. From there we run the cycle — process, reconcile, and close monthly on a fixed cadence — and deliver management reporting that keeps your decisions current. The result is books closed on time every month, clear ownership of the data, and leadership back on growth instead of reconciliations.
Founded in 1983, Inglewood puts a senior partner on every engagement and staffs lean, senior teams — the people doing your work have done it for decades, so you get controller-grade execution without the overhead of full-time hires. The work is also built to plug directly into fractional CFO strategy, so execution and financial leadership stay aligned rather than siloed. If you need that forward-looking layer, our fractional CFO engagement pairs naturally with this one.
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