Professional Services

Close and client software for accounting firms.

Each engagement runs its close on a checklist with a preparer and a reviewer, every hour is billable or not and becomes the invoice, and a client's records can be packaged for an audit or a regulator.

Starts your workspace as Professional Services, with 14 days of the full Business tier and no card. Free for up to 5 people afterwards.

A week of the work

Where Navalo fits for accounting firms.

Month end: the close, signed twice

Period Close keeps a checklist per engagement with separate names and dates for the preparer and the reviewer. A rejection clears the preparer's stamp, and rolling forward does not copy the signatures.

The client: one register

The CRM is the client and contact register, with engagement letters and renewals on each account.

The bill and the file

Billable hours become a numbered invoice, and Records Export packages a client's records as a PDF and JSON with a checksum.

Switched on at setup

The tools Professional Services installs.

You can untick any of them before you finish setting up, and add others later from the extensions catalogue.

Period Close

The close that runs every period, with a preparer and a reviewer signed and dated on each step, reconciliations carrying both balances, and the chase list for what the client still owes.

  • Preparer and reviewer, each with a name and a date
  • A rejection clears the preparer's stamp
  • Reconciliations with both balances and the difference
  • A filing calendar you fill in

Households

Households and the people and entities inside them, what each holds, the strategy it is measured against, and drift and concentration flags before a review.

  • Portfolio import from CSV, TSV or JSON, columns confirmed by a person
  • Drift against the household's own strategy
  • Concentration summed across every account
  • A strategy document Ava drafts and only a person approves

Compliance Audit Logger

An append-only record of decisions, approvals and access events, enforced by the database rather than by a policy someone has to remember.

  • The database refuses updates and deletes on the log
  • Decisions, approvals and access events captured
  • Export as CSV or JSON on demand
  • Readable by the people you allow
Straight answers

What it does not do.

  • Navalo is a workspace for advisers, accountants and lawyers. It is not a broker, a custodian or a book of record, and every figure in it is arithmetic over records your firm entered or imported.
  • There is no live custodian connection: a portfolio arrives as the CSV, TSV or JSON your custodian exports.
  • Navalo computes no filing or court deadline. A date is one a person entered.
  • Navalo does not run conflict checks; the CRM is the register a conflict check is run against.
  • Navalo holds no SOC 2, ISO 27001 or SOX attestation.
Questions

Before you start.

Is Navalo our accounting system?
No. It is the workspace the firm runs its engagements in. Your clients' books stay in the accounting software they keep them in.
What do we pick when we sign up?
Professional Services. Start from this page and it is already selected in the setup wizard; you can still pick something else before you finish.