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What audit prep costs you per cycle.

Move the sliders to your real numbers. Output is annual savings on audit-prep professional hours plus the avoided overage on external CPA fees and missed-deadline penalties.

Annual statutory + quarterly reviews + SOX walkthroughs + IRS responses.
Total internal hours: controller, staff accountant, audit manager. Industry avg for mid-size: 60-160 hrs.
Salary + benefits + tax. Controller-level $150-$250, staff accountant $75-$125.
Typical external audit invoice. With audit-ready books, fee drops 15-25% because the firm bills less prep time.
When the auditor's sample requests are answered in the auditor portal in real time, fewer billable hours.
Standard tier $1,495. Slide higher for multi-entity.

Annual impact

Audit-prep hours / yr340
Hours reduced (Ledgerline collapses ~70%)238
Internal labor savings$29,750
External CPA fees / yr (current)$112,000
External CPA fees / yr (audit-ready)$89,600
External fee savings$22,400
Ledgerline annual cost$17,940
hours/yr = cycles * hrs/cycle hours_saved = hours/yr * 0.70 (Ledgerline collapses ~70% of prep) labor_saved = hours_saved * loaded_rate ext_now = cycles * ext_fee ext_new = ext_now * (1 - reduction%) ext_saved = ext_now - ext_new ledgerline_$ = monthly * 12 net = labor_saved + ext_saved - ledgerline_$
Net annual savings
+$34,210
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