Ecommerce Accounting Optimization
Your books are lying to you, and you already know it.
You don't trust the process and tools behind your ecommerce accounting numbers: inventory value, cost of goods sold, purchase orders, and income across every channel. And you don't trust who's responsible for getting it right either, not your internal team, not your own tools, not your inventory management system, not your ecommerce accountants or bookkeepers.
You need someone to show you the right way to do it: to validate the work already being done, and point everyone involved, including your accounting apps, your accountants, and your bookkeepers, in the right direction, challenging them to put it together correctly. The goal is getting the process and structure in place so you get detailed, accurate financials and the books close on a regular basis. This is a high-level process and technology fix, not a deep dive into what's going on inside your actual financials.
We don't do the accounting for you. We're the experts who build you an action plan for the accounting, bookkeeping, and finance help your business actually needs.
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How it actually works
We don't do your accounting for you.Scott isn't a bookkeeper or a CPA, and this isn't a monthly accounting service. The work is getting your financial picture organized and understood.
Name the specific gaps.Where the books are unclosed, miscategorized, or don't reflect real cost of goods sold, inventory value, or income.
Deliver an action plan.A clear action plan for the bookkeeper, CPA, or process that will actually fix it, matched to what your business needs.
Foundation first
Clean, accrual-based books are the first source of truth a growing ecommerce business needs, before inventory, before a data warehouse, before any AI gets layered on top. If the books aren't trustworthy, nothing built on top of them is either.
Why Scharf Consulting
Scott co-founded the first ecommerce-only cloud accounting firm back in 2011, grew it, merged it, exited it, this is lived experience, not theory. Fifteen-plus years, thousands of sets of books reviewed, and he's seen the same phantom-profit, unreconciled-account pattern enough times to spot it early. He's not a CPA, and he'll say so, where a licensed specialist is the right call, that's exactly who gets brought in.
It starts with an audit
Every engagement begins with the Ecommerce Business Audit. For most founders who come in through the finance pain, the audit is where the specific gaps in the books get named for the first time, in plain language, before any recommendation gets made.