Finance Desk · Year-end preparation

Year-end files prepared properly, before the season starts.

Dedicated bookkeepers who reconcile every balance-sheet account, build lead sheets and gather supporting documents through the year, so your accountant or finance team closes faster and with fewer questions.

The situation

Every January the same thing: unreconciled accounts, missing documents and a queue of clients waiting for their annual accounts.

For accounting firms, year-end season is the capacity crunch of the year: hundreds of client files need reconciling, documenting and closing within the same months, and every unreconciled balance costs reviewer time. For companies, the annual close ties up the finance team for weeks and still ends with auditor queries.

Haven Teams bookkeepers prepare year-end files to your standard. Working through the year rather than in January, they reconcile balance-sheet accounts, maintain fixed-asset registers, post accruals and prepayments, assemble lead sheets with supporting documents and leave your reviewer a clean file with a short list of judgement items.

Unreconciled balances at close

Suspense, intercompany and VAT accounts that nobody cleared during the year.

Documents missing

Bank statements, loan agreements and invoices are chased in the busiest month.

Reviewer time wasted

Qualified staff spend hours on preparation that a trained bookkeeper could have done.

What your Haven team does

A clean file and a short list of judgement calls.

  • Reconciling all balance-sheet accounts: bank, debtors, creditors, VAT, payroll, intercompany and suspense
  • Maintaining fixed-asset registers with additions, disposals and depreciation
  • Posting accruals, prepayments, provisions and cut-off corrections per your policy
  • Building lead sheets and supporting schedules in your working-paper tool
  • Gathering supporting documents from clients or departments through your portal
  • Preparing draft annual-account figures and a list of open judgement items for the reviewer
Tools we work in

Working-paper and reporting tools such as Silverfin, Visionplanner, CaseWare, Unit4 Audition and Reeleezee, with accounting in Exact, Twinfield, AFAS, Yuki or Octopus. We follow your file structure and checklists.

At a glance
From
€1,600 per team member per month
Hours
EU business day, 09:00–17:30 CET
Pilot
2-week pilot at half the fee
Pricing
FAQ

Questions we get asked

Do you prepare the annual accounts themselves?

We prepare the figures, reconciliations and schedules. Compiling and signing the annual accounts (jaarrekening), the Dutch or Belgian statutory format and any assurance work stay with your qualified accountant.

Can you work through the year rather than only at year-end?

That is the model we recommend. Monthly or quarterly reconciliations mean the year-end file is largely done by December, which flattens your season.

Do you work in our firm's working-paper tool?

Yes. We train on your tool and your file structure during onboarding so files look the way your reviewers expect.

Can you take on a backlog of client files?

Yes, as a defined project with a per-file scope and turnaround. We often start this way and then move to year-round support.

Finance Desk

Other sectors and tasks

Each page explains how the same desk works for a different kind of organisation.

Accounting & administration firms

White-label bookkeepers who work in your practice software, under your name, for your clients.

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E-commerce & webshops

Marketplace payouts, payment-provider settlements, OSS VAT and thousands of small transactions, reconciled.

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Hospitality (horeca)

Daily takings, tips, split VAT rates, supplier invoices and payroll inputs for restaurants, hotels and groups.

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Construction & trades

Project costing, subcontractor invoices, reverse-charge VAT, retention and G-rekening administration.

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Property management & VvE administration

Service-charge accounting, owners' association bookkeeping, rent ledgers and annual statements for property managers.

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Logistics & transport

Fuel cards, tolls, driver expenses, CMR-backed invoicing and international VAT for carriers and forwarders.

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Healthcare practices

Dental, physiotherapy, GP and veterinary practices: insurer settlements, patient billing and VAT-exempt bookkeeping.

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Accounts payable

Invoice capture, three-way matching, approvals and payment runs, done daily so suppliers are paid on time.

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VAT returns (btw-aangifte)

Monthly and quarterly VAT returns, ICP listings and reconciliations prepared for your accountant's sign-off, NL and BE.

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Peppol e-invoicing

Belgium made B2B e-invoicing mandatory in 2026. Get your sending, receiving and processing running properly.

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Credit control & debtor management

Polite, persistent follow-up on open invoices so your cash comes in on time.

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Get a batch of year-end files prepared in a two-week pilot.

One dedicated bookkeeper on real client files, with quality measures agreed upfront. Half the monthly fee, credited if you continue.