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Spontaneous Order, an accounting process consultancy, can help you streamline your company’s
accounting and reporting for better decision-making and building efficient, solid accounting processes.
When decisions are supported by the numbers; action becomes easier. At Spontaneous Order we
believe accounting reports need to come out of the file drawers, drive the daily management of the
company and shape long-term company strategy.

Our staff all have private company finance and accounting experience and have real life experience
in the types of problems you face. An interest in the unique challenges of small and medium size
businesses led us to focus on these types of companies.

	We assist companies by:
	Building Visibility Into Results
	We can help you reorder your company’s accounting and reporting so that the business story becomes clearer. Your core financial reports, the Balance Sheet and Statement of Income, will be simplified and clarified. Your managers will be trained in how to connect their decisions and actions to these financial reports by knowing your company’s financial drivers.
	Getting Right Measures to the Right People
	Throughout your business there are staff who need to understand how costs are measured and to have the right information for making tactical decisions. Spontaneous Order helps you breakdown your operations into the right financial and non-financial measures. We provide basic training in understanding financial reports where necessary.
	Putting in Place Solid Accounting Processes
	To get accurate, timely reporting requires strong processes within and supporting your accounting operations. Spontaneous Order has the range of skills to improve your accounting processes from concept to execution. We also help companies put in place the controls and reviews that allow management to know accounting is getting done correctly.
	Providing Independent Software Selection
	Accounting software is usually sold by vendors representing a single provider or at best a small range of offerings. Spontaneous Order does not represent any specific software provider. This allows us to be of greater assistance to you in finding the solution that best fits your requirements and resources. Further, we subscribe to a database that regularly updates software offerings and functionality.
	Letting Us Sweat the Details
	With a wide range of projects already completed, we have a well of strategies to draw on to make your project a success. We are going to get things right that you weren’t even aware of. We can ensure a complete, well considered conclusion and provide the perspective to reach effective long term solutions.
	You have many choices if you are just trying to get your accounting numbers right. But if you are trying to improve your company and increase its financial return or value, we are the right consultant for you.

	Spontaneous Order’s services can be scaled to fit your company and your project. Typically projects we undertake focus on either improving accounting processes or on using management or cost accounting within the wider business. For ease of understanding, we tend to group projects into the five services described below; though most client projects require a combination of these services.

	Discovery: Requirements and Recommendation
	– This service includes both a focused review of your accounting and an organizational review of cost and managerial accounting use. Work includes an examination of existing processes and systems, management interviews and surveys, and modeling of other reporting or process options. These types of projects conclude either with a letter of recommendations to management or a more formal report and management presentation. Generally these include a proposal for additional work by Spontaneous Order.
	Rock Solid Accounting: Process Development
	This service is about getting execution right within the accounting function. Typically, these projects involve reworking the accounting General Ledger by rebuilding the list of accounts used. This requires changes to how accounting entries are prepared and how reports are compiled. Spontaneous Order will manage the software setup changes and ensure that department procedures and compilation tools are revised to reflect the changes. These projects result in accurate, understandable reports delivered on a consistent basis.
	Best Fit: Software Selection
	These projects start by defining software requirements and generating a preliminary shortlist of possible software choices. Spontaneous Order will then contact each vendor and describe your requirements in general terms. This allows us to further screen for requirements fit and conformance to other project requirements such as budget and schedule. Since we are independent of all accounting software providers, we are able to rigorously test software resellers claims about functionality. These projects end with a selection recommendation supported by criteria and evaluation of alternatives.
	Custom Application Development
	Occasionally a client will have a process that is central to their operation and also highly unique. If no acceptable software can be identified, Spontaneous Order will document your requirements and begin a custom development.
	Implementation: Putting "Take Action" to Work
	Projects within this service are about building skill sets in the broader organization for using financial measures and reports. For your business to work it must manage organizational process complexity and achieve certain levels of cost performance. Take Action Accounting is about getting this cost and other performance information to the employees who have the ability to shape and improve business performance. Reporting should be focused on the employee or work team receiving it and should be more specific than just distributing a list of actual versus budget variances. We provide training in how to understand and how to use financial reports where necessary. Back To Top

	Making it Happen! Projects can be fun and exciting; especially when you are creatively thinking about the opportunities within your business. Unfortunately, there are also times when they are just the opposite. Spontaneous Order uses the flexible methodology outlined in the diagram below to keep projects on track.

	Spontaneous Order will develop implementation schedules for approval by you. We manage the relationship with any other vendor or subcontractor we bring in to your project. We routinely assist clients in: Managing the services provided by software resellers Scrubbing accounting records prior to transfer to the new system Assisting with electronic conversion of records Running parallel operations until new processes are stabilized Ensuring backup and recovery While a strong process protects an efficient, expedient implementation; Spontaneous Order places an emphasis on practical efficiency and results. Back To Top