Sort the chaos. Start fresh. Stay on track.
If your publishing business has outgrown its financial setup or inherited a mess you can’t make sense of; we’re here to fix it. At Margrave, we specialise in untangling the numbers so you can move forward with confidence.
When is it time for a clean-up?
You’ve changed bookkeepers and lost visibility
Your balance sheet doesn’t make sense
Transactions are miscoded or uncategorised
VAT returns don’t reconcile to your software
You’re behind on reconciliations or reporting
You inherited chaos and need a clear reset
We don’t judge — we just get stuck in and put things right.
Our clean-up & setup services include:
- Full bookkeeping catch-up
- Balance sheet investigation and correction
- Chart of accounts restructuring
- VAT audit and reconciliation
- Contributor and royalty data correction
- Integration or migration of accounting systems
- Internal finance process setup (or re-design)
Whether you’re onboarding a new finance team, recovering from poor support, or scaling up your publishing operations, we’ll get your numbers back in order fast.
Set up for success
If you’re just getting started or restructuring, we can also help build your financial function from the ground up – tailored for publishing.
- Xero/Quickbooks/other accounting systems setup for publishers
- Cost centre & revenue category mapping
- Workflow systems (e.g. contributor invoices, royalty data entry)
- Internal reporting templates
- VAT compliance setup (digital/print/territorial)
Why publishers come to Margrave
We’re calm in the face of chaos
We understand the quirks of publishing finance
We work quickly and confidentially
We explain what went wrong - and how to avoid it again
We turn messy accounts into actionable insight
Not sure where to start? We do.
Let’s have a quick, confidential chat about what’s going on — and how we can fix it.
