Accounting • Financial Reporting • Advisory
Clarity Through the Numbers.
Accounting and financial support built to become an extension of your business—keeping your books accurate, your reporting clear, and your financial function moving forward.
From essential accounting support to controller and CFO-level advisory.
Your Financial Function
More than bookkeeping. Financial support built around your business.
Accurate accounting creates the foundation. Reporting creates visibility. Controller support strengthens oversight. CFO advisory helps leadership use financial information to plan and make decisions.
When the Business Outgrows the Accounting Process
Your accounting should support the business—not compete for your attention.
As a business becomes more complex, accurate books are only the beginning. Management also needs timely reporting, dependable processes, financial oversight, and information that helps explain what is happening.
Accounting is taking too much time.
Reconciliations, reporting, close procedures, and financial administration keep pulling attention away from the business.
The numbers aren't telling you enough.
You have financial statements, but need clearer reporting, analysis, and context around business performance.
The process hasn't kept up.
More transactions, people, systems, and decisions have created a need for stronger accounting processes and financial oversight.
How We Create Value
We connect the details to the bigger picture.
Every transaction matters. But the real value comes from understanding what those transactions tell you about the business.
Our approach connects day-to-day accounting with financial reporting, analysis, and the information leadership needs to make informed decisions.
Services
Start with what your business needs today.
The right level of support depends on accounting complexity, transaction volume, internal resources, reporting requirements, and what management needs from the financial function.
Essential Accounting
Reliable accounting, reconciliations, general ledger maintenance, month-end support, and foundational financial reporting.
See what's included →Full-Service Accounting
Comprehensive recurring accounting, close procedures, reporting, analysis, and ongoing financial support.
See what's included →Advanced Accounting
More complex accounting, schedules, reporting, process improvement, technical support, and defined accounting projects.
See what's included →Controller Services
Accounting oversight, management reporting, controls, close management, and stronger financial operations.
See what's included →CFO Advisory
Forecasting, modeling, scenario planning, cash-flow strategy, performance analysis, and financial decision support.
See what's included →Project-Based Consulting
Cleanup, setup, reporting, financial models, process redesign, system implementation, and defined financial projects.
Explore project support →Starting prices are general references. Final pricing depends on scope, complexity, transaction volume, reporting requirements, and level of support.
Built Around Your Business
An extension of your internal accounting team.
You don't necessarily need another full-time hire to strengthen your financial function. You need the right responsibilities owned by the right people.
We work alongside owners, management, internal accounting staff, bookkeepers, CPAs, tax professionals, auditors, and other advisors. Within the agreed scope, we take ownership of accounting responsibilities, maintain communication, and help keep the financial function moving.
A Stronger Financial Function
Build financial operations you can rely on.
The goal is not simply to produce financial statements. It is to build accounting processes and reporting that better support the people running the business.
Accurate
Organized records, reconciliations, close procedures, and disciplined accounting create a stronger financial foundation.
Timely
Repeatable processes help keep accounting work and reporting moving on a consistent schedule.
Understandable
Turn accounting information into reporting management can review, discuss, and use.
Scalable
Strengthen processes, documentation, reporting, and oversight as financial complexity increases.
How It Works
From first conversation to ongoing support.
We start by understanding the business, define what support is needed, and build a working relationship around clear responsibilities.
Understand the business.
We discuss your organization, accounting environment, challenges, reporting needs, and financial priorities.
Review what exists.
We assess relevant records, systems, processes, reporting, and responsibilities.
Define the right support.
We recommend a scope, service level, responsibilities, deliverables, and practical next steps.
Build the working relationship.
We establish access, workflows, communication, documentation, and expectations.
Own the agreed work.
We perform the agreed accounting and financial responsibilities consistently.
Strengthen the function.
We identify opportunities to improve processes, reporting, controls, and financial visibility.
Meet the Founder
Accounting support built around relationships and results.
Tete Accounting & Consulting was founded by Buma Tete to provide businesses and organizations with accounting support that goes beyond simply maintaining the books.
Buma's experience includes public accounting with KPMG as well as financial reporting, compliance, month-end close, and nonprofit financial operations. He holds a Master of Science in Accounting from the University of Maryland.
The approach is straightforward: understand the business, take ownership of the agreed accounting responsibilities, communicate clearly, and help strengthen the financial function over time.
Professional Coordination
We support the professionals already serving your business.
Strong accounting creates the foundation other professionals need. We can maintain accounting records, organize financial information, prepare supporting schedules, and coordinate with your CPA, tax professional, auditor, attorney, and other professional advisors.
Tete Accounting & Consulting does not provide CPA attest services, audits, tax return preparation, legal services, or other services requiring professional licensure. When those services are needed, we support and coordinate with the appropriate licensed professionals.
Your Next Step
Let's find out what your financial function needs next.
Tell us what's working, what's taking too much time, and what you need from your accounting function. We'll use the consultation to understand the situation and determine whether there's a fit.