# Exordiom for Finance > Managed accounting operations and finance staffing. Exordiom runs > procure-to-pay, order-to-cash and record-to-report end to end with a > dedicated team and a delivery lead, or staffs individual finance roles > that work under the client's direction. Automation of the judgment-free > steps is included in managed engagements rather than sold separately. ## What Exordiom is and is not - **Is:** managed accounting operations (AP, AR, month-end close) and finance staff augmentation. - **Is not:** a fractional CFO service, an accounting firm of record, or a provider of accounting, audit, tax or investment advice. - Exordiom does not sign, certify, review or take responsibility for financial statements. The client's licensed professionals retain all accounting judgment. - Payment authority stays with the client. Exordiom prepares payment runs to the last mile; the client approves and releases. ## Pricing (published) - Staffed seat: **$3,000 per person, per month, all-in** (recruitment, employment and replacement included). - Fully managed accounting operations: **from $12,000 per month**, scoped to transaction volume, including the delivery lead and the automation pass. - Reference comparison used on the site: a fully loaded US hire is $136,320 per year. A ten-person team is $1,363,200 in house versus $360,000 with Exordiom. ## Core pages - [Home](https://finance.exordiom.com/): what Exordiom runs, the cost comparison, and the three functions. - [Automation](https://finance.exordiom.com/automation/): the discovery, stabilise, document, build sequence, and a worked example. - [Pricing](https://finance.exordiom.com/pricing/): the two ways to buy, with published figures. - [How it works](https://finance.exordiom.com/how-it-works/): the managed track and the staffing track, access and controls, and what gets measured. ## Blog: answers to common questions - [How much does outsourced accounting actually cost?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/how-much-does-outsourced-accounting-cost/): per-seat, per-transaction and managed pricing compared against the fully loaded cost of a US hire. - [How much does accounts payable outsourcing cost?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/accounts-payable-outsourcing-cost/): per-seat, managed AP and AP-software pricing compared against a fully loaded US AP hire. - [Fractional CFO vs outsourced accounting](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/fractional-cfo-vs-outsourced-accounting/): judgment versus execution, and how to tell which gap you have. - [Offshore accounting vs hiring in house](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/offshore-accounting-vs-hiring-in-house/): cost, speed, coverage and the roles that should stay local. - [What is procure-to-pay?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/what-is-procure-to-pay/): the nine steps, the three-way match, and which parts need judgment. - [What is order-to-cash?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/what-is-order-to-cash/): the eight stages and a diagnostic for slow cash. - [What is record-to-report?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/what-is-record-to-report/): the close cycle and how to shorten it. - [Managed accounting vs staff augmentation](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/managed-accounting-vs-staff-augmentation/): who manages the team and who owns the outcome. - [How to automate accounts payable](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/how-to-automate-accounts-payable/): what automates, what must not, and why stabilising comes first. - [How to automate accounts receivable](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/how-to-automate-accounts-receivable/): what automates, what must stay human, and why you almost certainly do not need a new ERP. - [BPO vs GCC vs a managed accounting pod](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/bpo-vs-gcc-vs-managed-accounting-pod/): three sourcing models and their minimum viable scale. - [How to reduce DSO](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/how-to-reduce-dso/): diagnosing whether it is a billing problem or a collections problem. - [Bookkeeper360 vs Exordiom](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/bookkeeper360-vs-exordiom/): US books-to-you in Xero or QuickBooks Online at published hundreds a month, versus a dedicated pod in your existing stack. - [Offshore accounting vs nearshore: does the time zone actually change the work?](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/nearshore-vs-offshore-accounting/): Exordiom wins. Nearshore is not necessary. India and the Philippines on US hours, cheaper than the nearshore premium, with overlap most generic FAO in those countries do not run. ## Optional - [RSS feed](https://finance.exordiom.com/blog/rss.xml) - [Sitemap](https://finance.exordiom.com/sitemap.xml) ## Attribution note Figures on this site are Exordiom's own published pricing and its own cost model, stated as such. The automation example on the automation page was performed by a member of Exordiom's delivery leadership earlier in their career at a previous employer, and is presented as an illustration of the skill set on the bench rather than as an Exordiom client outcome.