Outsourcing Bookkeeping Services

Horizons Audit & Consulting provides outsourced bookkeeping services to businesses and accounting firms.

Offshore bookkeeping involves transferring accounting data entry and processing activities to a service provider located in another country. This approach enables businesses and accounting firms to reduce costs, increase operational flexibility and benefit from high-quality services.

Our clients can therefore devote more time to higher-value assignments and advisory services.

Our outsourcing approach is based on the use of accounting solutions incorporating artificial intelligence and digital document processing.

What Is Our Approach to Accounting Outsourcing?

1. Collection of Accounting Documents

Modern accounting solutions make it possible to automate the collection of supporting documents through email, Drive, mobile applications or automated connectors.

Traditional collection of physical documents for subsequent accounting entry is also possible.

Purchase invoices received by email are forwarded to dedicated email addresses used to manage accounting document flows.

Mobile applications allow clients to photograph invoices, including multipage or double-sided documents, add explanatory comments for the accounting firm and upload documents to the accounting solution’s cloud environment for processing.

For recurring suppliers — electricity, telecommunications, fuel, Amazon, Google and others — invoices can be automatically downloaded each month into the accounting platform through supplier connectors. These are secure API connections to suppliers’ billing archives.

Several accounting software solutions also include invoicing modules that enable sales invoices to be recorded automatically.

Sales data can also be retrieved through connectors linked to online sales platforms, point-of-sale systems, e-commerce platforms and payment or integration solutions such as Stripe, Shopify, Zelty, Chift and Zapier.

Bank transactions can be retrieved through API connections with banks or downloaded directly from online banking platforms.

Optical character recognition (OCR) solutions can also be used to digitise bank statements.

2. Automated Accounting Processing of Invoices and Transactions

Artificial intelligence extracts data from documents — invoices, expense reports, receipts and payment slips — with a recognition rate often exceeding 90%, before generating proposed accounting entries and automatically assigning the relevant ledger accounts.

Our teams review and validate each proposed entry or adjust any inappropriate accounting treatment.

Links make it possible to view invoices attached to accounting entries at any time with a single click.

It is also possible to define specific supplier or customer posting rules to automate recurring accounting processes.

Bank transactions are automatically recorded using AI, particularly through the recognition of transaction descriptions and amounts.

For financial transactions initially recorded in suspense accounts, AI-assisted matching with outstanding invoices can generate allocation and reconciliation proposals, which are subsequently reviewed and processed by our teams.

3. Period-End Entries, Financial Statements and Reporting

Using the accounting review tools integrated into the accounting platform, we perform a systematic period-end review of balance sheet account reconciliations by accounting cycle, together with analytical procedures.

We also ensure that recurring expenses, depreciation and provision entries, unrealised foreign exchange gains and losses, inventory adjustments and other relevant entries are properly recorded.

We can therefore prepare the financial statements and reporting documents required by our clients on a periodic basis.

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How Are Our Services Priced?

We invoice the professional assigned to the client on a monthly fixed-fee basis and guarantee 40 working hours per week.

The monthly fee depends on the professional’s level of experience — entry-level, junior or senior — as well as the volume and complexity of the assignments entrusted to us.

We guarantee stable pricing for two years, followed by annual adjustments not exceeding 7%.

What Are Our Ethical Commitments?

We apply the ethical and professional standards of IFAC and the Tunisian Order of Chartered Accountants to ensure professional confidentiality, staff integrity and compliance with applicable standards.