Outsource your accounting completely

It means that the execution moves to us and the decisions stay with you. We post, reconcile, calculate salaries, file the VAT returns, prepare payments and produce the annual accounts and the tax return. You approve payments and make the business decisions. What we do not do is copy your accounts into a system of our own and send you a PDF once a year. The software belongs to you, we work in it, and you see the same status as we do at any time.

No, in practice the opposite tends to be the case. Anyone who does the accounting on the side often only has it complete in March of the following year. With us, it is updated continuously, and you can see it yourself at any time. In any case, it is you who approves payments, in your own e-banking.

It stays in your own account with the accounting software. We work in it with our own accountant access and do not take anything out. We keep everything we learn in the process confidential, as contractually assured in section 3 of our general terms and conditions (AGB), also after the end of the mandate. We process personal data in accordance with the revised Federal Act on Data Protection (revDSG). Which service providers are involved and where they are based is set out in our privacy policy.

It stays where it is: in your own bexio. bexio belongs to you, we only work in it, so there is nothing to retrieve and no migration back. After termination, we remove our access, and you take over the bexio licence directly with bexio. Your employee or your new accountant carries on where we left off, and we hand over the current deadlines and open points in writing. You can terminate in writing at any time. If we terminate, we still complete whatever is reasonable and cannot be postponed, so that you suffer no damage (section 10 of our general terms and conditions, AGB). Keeping the business records and receipts is your company’s responsibility, for 10 years (Art. 958f CO).

A fixed price. The amount is set in advance, the annual financial statements and the tax return are included, and there is no additional invoice at the end of the year. We do not charge extra for individual peaks. If your business grows permanently beyond the tier you have booked because more receipts or more staff are added, we get in touch before it turns into an invoice and move to the next tier together. We charge work outside the subscription by time spent and tell you the price before we start. In addition, there is a one-off charge for setting up and taking over your accounting, by time spent, usually CHF 500 to 1,000.

No. The subscription is a simple mandate (Auftrag) under the Swiss Code of Obligations, and either party can terminate it in writing at any time. Only a party that does so at a particularly inopportune moment for the other side owes compensation under Art. 404 para. 2 CO, and that is the law, not a clause of ours. Even so, it makes sense to think in years or on a rolling basis: the annual accounts and the tax return fall due at the end of the year and are already included in the monthly amount. Anyone who leaves in the middle of the year has paid for them proportionately without receiving them. The flat fee runs until the end of the month that has begun, and there are no refunds. This is set out in section 10 of our general terms and conditions.

Yes. The licence for the accounting software is part of the subscription. You keep your own ERP or industry software for invoices and item master data separately.

It is not a flat amount but depends on the type of wage. The base fee and the first person are included in the subscription. For each additional person, we charge CHF 25 a month for a monthly salary and CHF 30 for an hourly wage, plus CHF 35 for each person subject to tax at source (Quellensteuer), because each of these involves more work. An industry fund (Branchenkasse) or a collective labour agreement (GAV) costs CHF 30 per month for the whole business, regardless of headcount. The fourth person therefore does not automatically mean Pro: which tier fits depends on the overall picture of receipt volume, wage types and scope. You can calculate the amount for your case in the price calculator, or we will tell you in the initial meeting.

Yes. Starting at the end of a quarter is cleanest, because the VAT return has then been completed. We take over the opening balance sheet and reconcile the open items.

Whatever arises once or is a separate mandate. We quote for one-off special cases such as restructurings and special reports individually, at CHF 120 to 180 per hour. If the social insurance office (SVA) comes for an audit or the Federal Tax Administration (ESTV) for an inspection, we charge our assistance by time spent. Your private tax return and catching up on previous years are also charged separately. Budget, liquidity planning and bank meetings are handled through CFO as a Service. You continue to pay the licence and support for your own industry software yourself. We tell you the price before we start.