Pricing · illustrative
Three ways an engagement could be shaped.
Practices often package their services so that owners can see how scope differs. These three structures are conceptual examples, not offers and not prices.
A note first
No prices here.
Illustrative structures only. No prices are shown because Northline is fictional. The full comparison is below; you can also choose the packages you want to compare, but you don’t have to.
01 Comparison
Comparing the structures
| Essential | Growth | Advisory | |
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| Suits | A sole trader or very small business that mainly needs its records and reporting kept in order. | A small business with staff or growing volume that needs regular reporting and payroll alongside the basics. | A growing business making larger decisions that wants a regular sounding board on top of the basics. |
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| Scope of support | Routine and predictable: the same tasks each period. | Broader and more regular, with a steady rhythm of contact. | Flexible and conversation-led, shaped around the decisions in front of the business. |
| First conversation | How records are kept today and what could be handed over. | How the team, pay and reporting work now, and where it strains. | Where the business is heading and which decisions are coming up. |
02 Quotation
Why a tailored quotation
Two businesses of the same size can need very different amounts of work. A practice would normally quote after a conversation, because things like these change the scope:
- How many transactions the business has, and how tidy the records are
- Whether there are staff, and how often they are paid
- Which software is already in use
- How much reporting and planning conversation is wanted
03 Discussion
How an engagement might be discussed
A first conversation
About the business and what is prompting the enquiry. No commitment.
A proposed scope
What is included, what is not, and how often.
A tailored quotation
Prepared from the agreed scope, and explained before anything starts.
Agreement and onboarding
Starting only once both sides are comfortable with the scope.
Next step
Talk about what you’d need.
A first conversation is a chance to ask questions and see whether we’re the right fit.
Demonstration only: no appointment is booked, and nothing you enter is sent or saved.
Fictional practice. Northline Accounting is not a real business and holds no registrations. Registration details are not shown because this practice is fictional.