Which tool should I start with?

If you already operate, the finance readiness assessment. If you are evaluating a brand, the due diligence checklist and the unit economics calculator, with the brand's own filing open beside you.

Where do the benchmark numbers come from?

From each brand's own disclosure document. The library reads Item 19 for 243 brands, and every figure we computed ourselves is labeled on the page.

Compare franchise brands

243 brands from their own 2026 FDDs. Filter, sort, then tick any two to six and read them side by side.

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Want this done on your own numbers?

Averan does the bookkeeping, the close and the reporting behind everything on this page. A short call, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.

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If you want this done for you

What happens next

Reading about it and having it done are different things. Here is exactly what happens if you want the second one.

The call, twenty minutesYou describe the business and where the numbers are letting you down. We tell you honestly whether we can help, and what we would start with. No pitch deck.
We look at the fileYou give us read access to the books as they are. We come back with what is wrong, what it will take to fix, and whether the answer is bookkeeping, controller work, or something else.
A written scope and a priceWhat we do each month, what you get, the date it lands, and the fee. Agreed before anything starts, and it does not move without you agreeing it.
Transition, then the first closeAccess, systems, and the opening balances. The first close lands on the date in the scope, and every one after it does too.

Start with the call →How an engagement runs

Averan is not a CPA firm and does not file taxes. Your CPA keeps that, and we keep the books they file from.