Apparel & Fashion Accounting
Apparel multiplies everything: every style becomes a size/color matrix, a quarter of what you sell comes back, and last season's inventory quietly stops being worth what you paid for it. We keep books built for that reality.
These are the patterns we see over and over when we review books kept by firms that don’t live in this category.
A 20-style line is 400+ SKUs once sizes and colors multiply out. Books that value inventory as one blob can't tell you which styles make money, and can't catch the size runs that are broken. Style-level margin is the number apparel decisions actually run on — and most P&Ls can't produce it.
At 20–30% return rates, the gap between gross and net revenue is enormous — and returns from December sales arrive in January. Without a returns reserve, every peak month is overstated and every post-peak month looks worse than it is. Add damaged returns and final-sale write-offs, and unreserved books are systematically wrong.
Apparel ages. Carrying last season's styles at full cost overstates your inventory and hides the markdown decision you should already be making. Clean obsolescence reserves and markdown accounting tell you what your inventory is actually worth — which is also what a lender or acquirer will insist on knowing.
70%
of other firms' books we audit contain errors
$100M+
tax savings uncovered over 5 years
1
client manager across books and taxes
Want to see what this looks like in practice? Read how an 8-figure jewelry brand got true profit visibility and 10 hours a week back.
Accounting plans start at $1,247/month, with Controller and CFO tiers as you scale — real prices, published, no “it depends.” Tax planning and filing are handled in-house by the same team.
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