About the Client

All In One Accounting is a full-service outsourced accounting firm in Eagan, Minnesota, serving nonprofits, entrepreneurs, and businesses across professional services, retail, technology, manufacturing, and real estate. Founded in 2004, the firm offers outsourced accounting, fractional controller/CFO services, and recruiting.

Their proprietary Clarity Score™ benchmarks financial health for nonprofits and small businesses a unique tool that sets them apart in the market. True to their client promise, they offer a clean audit guaranteed or money back, and operate on a no-long-term-contracts model that creates maximum flexibility for clients.

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The Challenge

All In One Accounting's core promise being a true partner to both nonprofits and entrepreneurs requires handling significant variety in accounting complexity. From audit prep for government-funded nonprofits to month-end close for fast-growing tech startups, quality must stay consistent across all clients.

• Serving diverse industries simultaneously each with unique reporting requirements and financial workflows
• Delivering on a "clean audit guaranteed" promise while managing an increasing volume of complex nonprofit clients
• Skilled onshore accounting talent in the US was scarce and expensive costing between $6,000 to $10,000 per month per resource, making it difficult to scale without significantly inflating overheads
• Need for a flexible staffing model that scales without the risk and overhead of full-time hires
• Growing demand for fractional controller services while still needing efficient routine execution

"All In One Accounting's no-long-term-contracts model creates flexibility for clients, but demands operational agility internally scaling up and down without the friction of traditional hiring cycles"

The Etisson Solution

All In One Accounting came to Etisson at a point where growth was being held back by the high cost and limited availability of skilled accounting professionals in the US market.

With onshore resources priced at $6,000–$10,000 per month, scaling their team was financially unsustainable. Etisson provided the same skill set at just $2,000–$2,500 per month delivering close to two-thirds in cost savings without any compromise on quality.
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What began as a single dedicated team member evolved into a full squad of six to seven professionals as the firm's confidence grew. Backed by Etisson's consistent SLA delivery and a tech-enabled engagement mode including automation, a real-time work visibility platform, and structured weekly calls All In One Accounting gained the operational strength to scale their practice faster. Etisson functions not as a vendor, but as a true extended team embedded within their practice.
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Results & Impact

• 60% reduction in per resource labor cost, from $6,000 to $10,000 per month onshore to $2,000 to $2,500 per month with Etisson, without any compromise on output quality.
• 25% of partner time reclaimed, with senior staff freed from routine month end execution and redirected entirely to advisory services and Clarity Score™ engagements.
• Faster client onboarding, as catch up work that previously stretched over weeks now completes in days, compressing time to value and improving early client satisfaction.
• Portfolio expanded across multiple industries, including professional services, nonprofits, retail, tech, manufacturing, and real estate, without proportional growth in onshore headcount.
• Clean audit guarantee upheld consistently, with Etisson prepared workpapers meeting audit ready standards every month, even as client volume has grown.
• Full operational visibility, with live work trackers and structured weekly updates giving the team a real time view across every active client engagement.
• Flexible staffing aligned to the no long term contracts model, allowing the firm to scale up for audit season or absorb new onboardings without permanent hiring exposure.