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Revenue-Recognition Cleanup
Fixed-fee IFRS 15 deferred-revenue cleanup for EU SaaS and implementation-heavy firms, priced below Big-4 remediation and scoped for a raise or audit.
- Category
- Agency
- Difficulty
- Moderate
- Revenue potential
- Solid
- Startup cost
- €500
A fixed-fee service that cleans up IFRS 15 accounting can sit right between Big-4 remediation and part-time CFO retainers. You use AI to cut down the analyst grind and still hand over work an auditor will accept.
Executive summary
You can build a productized revenue-recognition cleanup service for EU software companies if you can win their trust and deliver work that holds up in an audit.
Go narrow. Sell to venture-backed EU software firms that do heavy implementation and need their deferred-revenue schedules rebuilt, their IFRS 15 policies written down, and clean workpapers ready before an audit, a raise, or diligence.
The best opening is the gap between costly Big-4 remediation and broad part-time CFO retainers. There's a third option too: dedicated revenue-recognition software, but it still needs heavy setup and doesn't do the cleanup for you.
AI helps in a real way here. It can draft the policy, reconcile the schedules, and flag the exceptions, so you need fewer analyst hours. That lets a solo founder price below the big firms and still hand over work you can defend.
- Sell to the finance lead at EU software firms that have annual contracts, setup fees, and multiple entities or currencies to deal with.
- Sell yourself as a fixed-fee cleanup job. Not a software company, not their whole finance team.
- Keep it tight: rebuild the schedules, write down the policy, reconcile the entity structure, and hand over workpapers the auditor can use.
- The main risk is trust. This work sits next to the audit and carries real liability.
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Questions, answered
What do you actually deliver?
We rebuild the deferred-revenue schedules, document the IFRS 15 policy, reconcile the entity structure, and leave auditor-ready workpapers behind.
Do we still need rev-rec software?
Yes, if you already use it or plan to, this sits on top of your existing stack. The wedge is making the numbers defensible, not replacing your tooling.
Why not just hire a fractional CFO?
Because the target buyer needs rev-rec cleanup, not the whole finance function. The offer is narrower and priced as a scoped project instead of a broad monthly retainer.