Audit support
SOC readiness bookkeeping
SOC readiness bookkeeping from Finbryn keeps billing, revenue and vendor-payment records reconciled while a Canadian company prepares for a service-organization examination. Our accounting team tracks finance-related evidence requests and coordinates with your security lead; a licensed audit firm performs the examination itself and issues the report.
Auditor request list
Illustrative client · August 2026
CAD
- Trial balance and general ledger exportDone
- Bank confirmations and statementsDone
- Receivables and payables listingsDone
- Fixed asset register with additionsIn progress
- Accruals and prepayments supportNext
Illustrative. An example of the document, not a client's figures.
Selling to a US enterprise customer from a Canadian company
A Canadian software or services company chasing its first large US logo often gets the same email back from procurement: send your SOC 2 report. Some pursue an AICPA SOC 2 report directly; others go through CPA Canada's own assurance standard, CSAE 3416, Reporting on Controls at a Service Organization, the Canadian counterpart most Canadian public accounting firms actually issue against. Either route rests on the same financial evidence underneath it, and that is the piece we keep organized.
The dollars behind the security review
An examiner spends most of the engagement on access logs, change management and incident response. The financial slice sits underneath that: does billing tie to signed contracts, does revenue recognition follow a consistent policy month to month, does every vendor payment trace to an approval before it left the bank account. We reconcile that slice on the same monthly cadence as the rest of your books, rather than assembling it in the weeks before an examiner's fieldwork window opens.
Tracking what gets asked for
We run a tracker against the finance-related items an examining firm requests, whether it is a sample of invoices pulled against the general ledger or a log of who approved a wire above a set amount. A request that turns on system access, encryption or a security control outside our scope gets routed straight to whoever leads that side of the engagement.
Where our role ends
We do not perform the examination and we hold neither a SOC 2 report nor a CSAE 3416 report ourselves; a licensed public accounting firm does, engaged separately by you. Our part is the bookkeeping and evidence trail underneath their opinion, kept current for the length of the window rather than assembled once at the deadline.
Much of what an examiner samples on the finance side ties back to a control your team already relies on day to day, which is why this work sits close to internal controls documentation once the examination is behind you and the same control needs to keep operating.
Questions
Frequently asked questions: SOC readiness bookkeeping
Do you get us a SOC 2 report?
No. A licensed audit firm performs the examination and issues the report under the applicable attestation standard. We keep the financial records and evidence behind it organized.
Does this apply to a Type I or Type II examination?
Either. We support the underlying bookkeeping in both cases; a Type II window runs longer, which is why consistent monthly reconciliation through that period matters more than for a point-in-time Type I review.
Can you coordinate directly with the examining firm?
We coordinate primarily with your internal security or compliance lead on financial evidence, and can join a call with the examining firm when a finance-specific question needs a direct answer.
What exactly is included in sOC readiness bookkeeping?
Books and financial records kept current and reconciled through the examination window, and billing, revenue-recognition and vendor-payment records organized for evidence requests. This work runs inside QuickBooks Online or Xero, whichever your business already has in place, and it rolls into your regular monthly close rather than sitting off to the side as a separate, unreconciled process.
What happens to our sOC readiness bookkeeping records if we switch providers?
Everything stays inside your own QuickBooks Online or Xero account, so the full history transfers with the subscription, not with Finbryn. You can hand sOC readiness bookkeeping to another provider or bring it in-house at any point without losing a reconciliation or having to rebuild the file first.
Do you perform the SOC examination or issue the report?
No. An independent, credentialed audit firm you engage separately performs the examination and issues the report. We keep the financial records and evidence behind it organized and current.
What is the difference between this and general bookkeeping?
The bookkeeping itself is the same discipline, kept to a documentation and consistency standard that holds up when an examiner asks for evidence on demand rather than at month end.
Who reviews the work before it reaches us?
Every deliverable under sOC readiness bookkeeping is reviewed by a senior principal before it reaches you. You keep access to the underlying file at every stage, so nothing about the work happens somewhere you cannot see it.
What is included in sOC readiness bookkeeping?
SOC readiness bookkeeping covers books and financial records kept current and reconciled through the examination window and billing, revenue-recognition and vendor-payment records organized for evidence requests. The exact scope is agreed and set out in writing before work starts, so you know precisely what is and is not covered before the first deliverable arrives.
Related services
- Audit supportInternal controls documentationFinancial process controls, such as who approves a payment or reconciles an account, written down and walked through with your team, so an auditor or funder can see how the numbers are actually produced.
- Audit supportWorking paper preparationSupporting schedules and reconciliations built the way an auditor expects to see them, cross-referenced to the trial balance, so review comments come back with fewer open questions.
Industries
- SaaSBookkeeping and reporting for subscription software businesses tracking recurring revenue, deferred revenue and burn.
- Startups and VC-backed companiesBookkeeping and reporting for early-stage, venture-backed companies watching burn, runway and investor reporting closely.
- Agencies and consultanciesBookkeeping for marketing agencies, design studios and consulting firms billing clients on retainers and project fees.
Next step
Talk to the team that would run your books
A short call covers your setup, your software and what a first month would look like. You get a written scope and price after it.