Global Bookkeeping Services
Bookkeeping for every international subsidiary.
Monthly books for each entity, kept in local GAAP and local currency, closed on a defined schedule with defined deliverables. One team across all your subsidiaries instead of a bookkeeper per country.
Trusted by global businesses
A different bookkeeper
in every country.
Each new country adds a ledger, a currency, a GAAP, and usually a new bookkeeper to find, vet, and manage. The books get done, mostly. What you lose is any consistent standard for how, and any way to see which entity is falling behind.
Hiring a bookkeeper per country doesn't scale
Every new subsidiary means sourcing, vetting, and onboarding another local firm. Explaining your business from scratch, again, in another time zone.
Quality varies, and you can't see it
One entity closes in five days. Another hasn't reconciled its bank account in a quarter. You find out which is which when the numbers are already wrong.
Payroll and AP fall between vendors
The payroll provider runs payroll. The bookkeeper keeps the ledger. Nobody owns the entries in between, so accruals get missed and balances drift.
What you get
What the service includes.
Monthly books per entity, in local GAAP
Every subsidiary's transactions booked in the local GAAP and local currency its filings require. Not a US-style ledger retrofitted at year-end.
A monthly close with defined deliverables
Trial balance, P&L, and balance sheet per entity, delivered on a defined date each month. The close is a schedule, not a negotiation.
Reconciliations done every month
Bank and balance sheet accounts reconciled as part of the close, so errors surface in weeks, not at the audit.
Payroll and AP entries coordinated
We coordinate with your payroll provider and AP process in each country and book the entries: salaries, employer taxes, accruals, supplier invoices. The gap between vendors is in scope.
One team across all subsidiaries
Accountants who know each local GAAP, coordinated by Commenda under one engagement. One point of contact, one standard of work, every country.
Your ledger, not ours
We work in QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite, or set new entities up on Puzzle. The books live in a system you own and keep.
How it works
From scattered ledgers
to one monthly rhythm.
Same workflow whether we take over one subsidiary or all of them.
Step 01
Scope
Share your entity list, accounting systems, and payroll setup per country. We define the monthly deliverables and return a fixed quote per entity.
Step 02
Onboard and catch up
We get access to ledgers and bank feeds, and if any entity is behind, we reconcile and close the open periods first.
Step 03
Monthly close
Transactions booked, accounts reconciled, payroll and AP entries recorded, and each entity's close package delivered on schedule.
Step 04
Feed everything downstream
Closed books flow into group reporting, corporate tax returns, and statutory accounts on the same platform. Nothing is re-entered.
A patchwork,
or one team.
Local bookkeepers are fine at keeping one set of books. What breaks is the coordination: five firms, five standards, and a group close that depends on all of them. Commenda replaces the patchwork with one team.
A bookkeeper per country
The same job, bought five different ways.
- Source and vet a new firm for every country
- Different quality, format, and pace per entity
- Payroll and AP entries owned by nobody
- No view of which entity is behind
- Hourly billing and scope drift
- Every handoff is an email thread
Commenda
One team, one standard, every entity.
- One engagement covers every subsidiary
- Same deliverables and close schedule per entity
- Payroll and AP entries booked in scope
- Close status visible for every entity
- Fixed per-entity pricing, no hourly billing
- Books live in your ledger, not a vendor's
Where it fits
Clean books are the input
to everything else.
Monthly bookkeeping is the foundation of the stack. The same closed books feed consolidated group reporting and the corporate tax return each entity files. Run all three on one platform and the numbers only get entered once.
Common questions
Closed books for every entity: transactions booked in local GAAP and local currency, bank and balance sheet accounts reconciled, payroll and AP entries recorded, and a trial balance, P&L, and balance sheet delivered per entity. The deliverables and the delivery date are defined in the engagement, so the close is a schedule, not a negotiation.
Yes. We work in QuickBooks, Xero, and NetSuite, and for new or small entities without an existing system, Puzzle gives you clean books with bank and payment integrations from day one. Your ledger stays yours: if you leave, the books go with you.
Accountants who know the local GAAP of each jurisdiction, coordinated by Commenda as one team under one engagement. You get one point of contact and one standard of work, not a different relationship to manage in every country.
We coordinate with your payroll provider and AP process in each country and book the entries as part of the monthly close: salaries, employer taxes, benefits accruals, and supplier invoices. The entries that usually fall between vendors are part of the defined scope.
Yes, and it's a routine starting point. We reconcile from the source statements, fix misclassifications, and produce the closing entries that get prior periods actually closed. It's a one-time intensive effort, after which the regular monthly close takes over.
Priced per entity with transparent platform pricing, quoted upfront. No hourly billing, and adding a new subsidiary means adding a line item, not sourcing a new bookkeeper.
Every entity closed.
Every month. One team.
Book a 30-minute call. We'll review how each entity's books are kept today and show you exactly what the monthly close would look like with one team, and what it would cost.
