System Six
At a Glance
The clearest fit in this category for a buyer inheriting a seller's books, and the one question to ask on the call is what a month costs once the cleanup is done.
- Pricing
- Custom Pricing, Nothing published. Scope is quoted after a call, which is standard for bookkeeping engagements priced on transaction volume and the state of the books being inherited.
- Best For
- A new owner who inherited the seller's bookkeeping and a lender who wants monthly statements
- Roadmap Stages
- 6. Operate & Grow the Business
Pros and Cons
Pros
- The acquisition-entrepreneur page states a client count, a transformation window and a retention figure, which is more than most firms in this category publish
- Its chief executive bought the firm himself through a self-funded search, so the failure it describes is one it has been through
- Bookkeeping, payroll and CFO advisory come from one firm, which matters when the question is whether the numbers a lender sees are the numbers the owner runs on
Cons
- No published pricing, so the engagement cannot be sized before a call
- The figures on its own page are the firm's own, unaudited and undated
- It is a sponsor of the main acquisition podcast, so its name recurs there as advertising rather than as a buyer's account of using it
What Searchers Say
Named in roughly ninety episodes of the Acquiring Minds archive, mostly in the advertising slot. Its own acquisition-entrepreneur page carries client counts and a retention figure, which are the firm's claims about itself. No independent review at this directory's bar was found.