Accounting Advisory
A deal is closing. The pressure is on performance. Your controller just resigned three weeks before quarter-end. Whatever the trigger, the question is the same: Can someone help me get out of this jam—correctly, defensibly and fast?
Accounting advisory at RSM can. We offer the single door to accounting challenges that the office of the chief financial officer faces—technical, transactional or talent-driven. You don’t have to know whether your issue is technical accounting, deal accounting or a resourcing gap. You bring the situation; we bring the answer and the people who have done it before.
This isn’t stale, by-the-book compliance—it’s top-caliber technical depth, delivered in a modern, technology-enabled way that takes complexity off your plate. RSM serves both private equity-backed and public companies, meeting each where they are.
Don’t face the challenge alone. These are the moments we’re built for.
Every accounting challenge is different. RSM organizes around the situation you’re in—not our organizational chart—with the goal of delivering outcomes that exceed your expectations.
Your team is stretched thin
The resiliency workbench
Accounting and finance talent on demand—through periods of compression, transactions, audits and the day your director of revenue walks out. Not staff augmentation. Retained access to the people you can’t hire fast enough.
The pressure is on performance, not just compliance
Performance improvement and debt refinancing advisory
Cash flow diagnostics, profitability improvement plans, cost reduction roadmaps and debt refinancing support, delivered without derailing your close.
A deal is in motion
Transaction and M&A accounting
Business combinations and purchase price allocations (ASC 805), opening and closing balance sheets, carve‑out and divestiture financials, and the technical memos that make the numbers stand up to diligence.
The public markets are calling
Capital markets and IPO/SPAC readiness
Get audit‑ready and exit‑ready: Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reporting, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and internal controls, pro formas and defensible position papers built on the front end.
Every number must be defensible
Technical accounting optimization and remediation
Complex accounting consultation and position papers, restatements and material‑weakness remediation, valuation support for financial reporting and transactions, and on‑call answers to the questions that don't fit the textbook.
Being public is consuming you
The managed public‑company back office
SEC reporting, technical and functional accounting, and controls—managed as one integrated solution. Let RSM help carry the compliance of being public, in a risk‑managed way, while you focus on growth.
Whether you’re scaling toward an exit or carrying public‑company complexity
The accounting challenges of a PE‑backed portfolio company and a public registrant aren’t the same. RSM meets you where you are—without making you choose the wrong door.
Private equity backed and privately held
Build a finance function that protects value
Lean teams, fast growth and an eye on the exit leave little room for accounting. Clean accounting is a value creation lever, not a back office afterthought.
- Scale a lean accounting function as the company grows
- Get audit-ready and exit-ready—before diligence does it for you
- Support add on acquisitions, carve-outs and integrations
- Protect the multiple with diligence-proof numbers
Public companies
Keep the engine technically sound—and lighter to run
From routine quarters to transformative transactions, public companies need depth on demand. Not every registrant needs to own all of it internally.
- Ongoing technical accounting and complex transactions
- SEC reporting, SOX and internal controls
- Transaction accounting—ASC 805 memos and the post close walk
- Restatement and remediation, handled with discretion
The talent gap, solved differently
Why hire for it when you can have RSM’s bench behind you?
There aren’t enough experienced accountants—and the gap is widening. Hiring means carrying the cost, the training and the risk that your new hire doesn’t stick around. And no single person carries every technical specialty you need.
So we changed the model. RSM becomes your retained resiliency arm—access to the full technical bench, deployed when lifecycle events, compression or a sudden departure demand it.
A specialist, right now
A defined need filled fast—the revenue or lease professional you can’t find on the open market.
A retained bench
Build your own pre-vetted team on a retainer and draw from it through every period of pressure.
An embedded function
We run the books and the reporting on an ongoing basis-outcome-based, not billed by the hour.
Why RSM?
What you get at RSM that you won’t get elsewhere
Big‑firm technical credibility. Middle market accessibility. None of the distance.
Professional depth
Top-caliber technical specialists who do the work—not partners who only review a file. The people in the room have solved your problem before. We stay through the year’s pressure points—a retained relationship, not a one-off project or a staffing requisition you re-sell every time.
Modern and technology-enabled
We use technology to take cost and time out of how we deliver, so you get a faster, more competitive answer.
We can—and we do
Built for the middle market and fluent in both the private-equity and public-company worlds. We don’t just tell you what we can do; we show you what we’ve done.
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