For bookkeeping firms

Tell your clients what the business is worth.
Then show them how to make it worth more.

A quarterly report built straight out of the QuickBooks file you already keep. It values the business, then hands the owner a ranked list of moves that raise that value, each one costed. Your logo, your name, your price.

You set the price your client pays and keep the difference. No build, no software to learn, no extra hours. Call us and we will walk the numbers on your own client list.

  • Your brand on every page
  • Built from the file you already keep
  • Nothing for your team to run
MBQ3 Business Value Report · Riverside Plumbing Co.
Prepared by Maplewood Bookkeeping

What it is worth today

$1,420,000

4.7x adjusted earnings · read from your QuickBooks on 30 September

Value we can add in 18 months

+22%

$312,000 of new value

Cash sitting in the business

$9,500

a month, freed

Local pricing gap

11%

under the three nearest rivals

Owner dependence

High

the biggest single discount

Top move this quarter

Raise the standard service call from $129 to $145. Every shop within nine kilometres is already above you. Worth $38,000 a year at today's volume, and it lands in the multiple.

Illustrative example ~ every report is built from that client's own ledger and produces its own figures.

What the report is for

Value the business. Then lift the value.

Knowing the number is the start, not the point. The point is that the number goes up, quarter after quarter, because the owner is working the list you hand them. More profit while they own it, a higher price when they sell it, and the business is sale-ready the whole way through.

1

Value it

A defensible number off their own ledger, with the multiple and the add-backs shown. Every quarter, so the trend is visible.

$1,420,000

worth today

2

Lift it

Where the value is leaking and what closes the gap: pricing, unserved demand, margin, customer concentration, owner dependence. Each move carries the dollars it adds.

$312,000

of new value, a 22% lift

3

Stay exit ready

The same work that raises the value is the work a buyer or a lender checks. Done quarterly, the business is never more than a quarter from sellable.

Scored

risk and readiness, every quarter

The challenge

The books are no longer the product.

Bank feeds categorise themselves. Receipts read themselves. Every year a client is one more click away from asking why the monthly fee looks the way it does. Competing on accuracy is competing on something the software already claims to do.

The firm that sends statements

Answers the question the client already asked. Priced against the cheapest quote in town.

The firm that sends a valuation

Answers the question the client has never been able to afford to ask. Priced against what it is worth to know.

The difference

One is a cost the owner is looking to cut. The other is the reason they stay.

The deliverable

What lands in your client's inbox

One report, every quarter, under your name. It is built from their own ledger, so nothing in it can be argued with.

A quarterly business value report: the valuation, the multiple, and the moves that lift it

Defensible

What the business is worth

A valuation off the actual QuickBooks file, with the add-backs shown and the multiple explained. Not a guess, not a range wide enough to be useless.

Comparative

Where they sit in their market

How their margins, growth and pricing compare with the businesses they actually compete against, by industry and by region.

Local

The whitespace nobody else sees

Demand in their own service area that no competitor is serving, and the price the market is already paying for it.

Actionable

What to do about it

A ranked list of moves with a dollar figure on each one, and the value each move adds. They tick them off. Next quarter shows whether it worked.

White label

Your logo on it. Our name nowhere.

The report your client opens carries your firm name, your logo and your colours on every page. There is no SharePop badge, no powered-by line, no footer giving us away. As far as your client is concerned, their bookkeeper started doing valuations.

  • Your firm name, logo and brand colours throughout
  • Sent from you, on your schedule, to the list you already own
  • Billed on the invoice your client already receives from you
  • One wholesale invoice back to the firm, never to your client
A client report carrying the firm's own brand instead of ours
Hyper local

Not national averages. Their street.

Anyone can tell a plumbing company what plumbing companies earn. The report tells this plumbing company what the four shops inside its own service radius charge, which services none of them offer, and what that gap is worth in revenue this year.

That is the part an owner reads twice, and the part they cannot get from their bank, their software, or a chatbot.

The whitespace readout: unserved local demand and what it is worth

Local opportunity · Riverside Plumbing Co.

  • Emergency after hours callout

    Nobody within nine kilometres advertises it. Two rivals refer it away.

    $64,000
  • Annual maintenance plans

    One competitor sells them at $340 a year. You have 210 repeat customers.

    $71,000
  • Standard call rate

    Yours is $129. The local band is $141 to $165.

    $38,000
Found this quarter$173,000

Illustrative example ~ every scan is run against that client's own service area and produces its own findings.

Every readout

Everything in the quarterly report

Two halves. The first half says what the business is worth. The second half says how to make it worth more. All of it off the same ledger, with no work from you.

Half one

What it is worth

The number, and everything that sets it.

  • Business Valuation

    What the business is worth today, the multiple it earns, and every add-back that got it there.

  • Business Score

    One number for how the business is performing, broken into the parts a buyer prices.

  • Unit Economics

    What one sale, one job, one customer actually makes after everything is counted.

  • Lender readiness

    What a lender would say today: coverage, leverage, the gap between them and a yes.

  • Risk Profile

    Owner dependence, customer concentration, key staff, the risks that discount the price.

Half two

How to lift it

Where the value is leaking, and what closes the gap.

  • Price Position

    Their rates against what the market nearby actually charges, service by service.

  • Whitespace Opportunity

    Demand inside their own service area that no competitor is serving, and what it is worth.

  • Local Market Scan

    The market they really sell into: size, growth, who is winning and who is leaving.

  • Market Structure

    How crowded the field is, who the real rivals are, and where the pricing power sits.

  • Location Quality

    Whether the address helps or hurts, and what the catchment supports.

  • Client Acquisition Cost

    What it costs them to win a customer, and which channel is quietly losing money.

  • Marketing Strategist

    A local campaign built on the gaps above, not generic advice about posting more.

  • Referral Builder

    The cheapest growth they have, turned into something repeatable.

  • Growth Plan

    Everything above ranked into a quarter of work, each item carrying the value it adds.

The conversation nobody starts early enough

Every one of your clients sells eventually.

Most of them start thinking about it eighteen months out, which is years too late to change the number. The work that lifts a multiple ~ cutting owner dependence, tightening margins, making the revenue repeat ~ takes three to five years to show up in a price.

You are the one person already in their numbers every month. When the report lands quarterly, you are the reason they started early, and the person they call when they are ready.

What starting early is actually worth

Starts planningTypical sale price
Five years out$1,960,000
Three years out$1,640,000
Eighteen months out$1,420,000

Illustrative, on the same business. The gap is the work, not the market.

The commercial side

You keep the difference. All of it.

The firm pays one wholesale rate per client, per quarter. You decide what your client pays, and the spread is yours. There are no tiers to climb, no minimum to hit, and nothing changes if you grow.

One wholesale rate

The same rate per client per quarter whatever you charge and however many clients you switch on.

You set retail

Price it where it belongs in your own fee structure. We never see what your client pays and never contact them.

One invoice, to the firm

We bill the firm once. Your client is billed by you, on the invoice they already receive from you.

Talk to a person

Call us and we will price it with you.

Tell us roughly how many clients are on your books and we will walk the wholesale rate, the retail range other firms land on, and what you would keep. No form first. Or send it in writing instead.

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How it works

There is nothing for you to build

1

Connect once

Your clients approve the QuickBooks connection you already manage. One click each, and it never has to happen again.

2

We build the reports

Every quarter, automatically, under your logo and your firm name. Nothing in the report says our name.

3

You send one email

To a list you already own, of people who already pay you and already trust you. That is the entire job.

4

You bill it your way

On the invoice they already receive from you, at the price you chose. We bill you once, for the firm.

Your clients already trust you with the numbers.

This is the quarter you start telling them what the numbers are worth.