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Accounting-system setup and migration-scope comparison worksheet
Accounting-system setup proposals are easier to compare when every professional receives the same high-level picture of entities, current tools, users, data periods, available records, integrations, reporting needs, and target transition. This helpful preparation resource from PickYourPro.ai provides structured writing space while leaving software selection, accounting methods, tax treatment, data validation, controls, security design, and implementation decisions to qualified professionals and authorized business stakeholders.
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This is an engagement-preparation and proposal-comparison worksheet, not accounting, tax, bookkeeping, payroll, financial-reporting, records-retention, cybersecurity, privacy, internal-control, software-selection, migration, validation, contract, or legal advice. It does not configure a system or determine accounting treatment, data accuracy, access rights, or legal requirements. Qualified professionals and authorized stakeholders must review the actual business, records, systems, and requirements.
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How to use this resource
Describe the current environment and requested outcome without placing passwords, account numbers, taxpayer identifiers, employee data, bank details, or private records in this worksheet or a public request. Ask each professional to document its proposed discovery, configuration, account structure, data preparation, imports, mappings, opening information, validation, integrations, roles, backups, training, cutover, support, documentation, and handoff. Use the professional's approved secure process for records and credentials after scope and access have been authorized.
Open the PDF in a form-capable viewer, save a copy, then fill it in. Reopen your saved copy to check your answers. You can also print the blank pages and write by hand. Your answers are not submitted to PickYourPro.ai.
DEFINE THE PROPOSED SETUP SCOPE
Separate current facts from the configuration and migration each professional proposes.
PREPARE SECURE REVIEW AND HANDOFF
Tick only what is known or ready to discuss. Keep private records and credentials elsewhere.
QUESTIONS FOR THE ACCOUNTING PRO
Record how the professional would scope, validate, secure, transition, and support the setup.
COMPARE THE SAME SETUP SCOPE
Use A and B in every box. Clarify differences before choosing.
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Accounting-System Setup preparation checklist
- List entities, locations, operating activities, authorized decision-makers, current users, and people who rely on the information.
- Name current accounting, invoicing, payment, banking, payroll, expense, inventory, sales, tax, and reporting tools at a high level.
- Identify the periods and record types available for discussion, known gaps, opening information, and target transition without attaching private data publicly.
- Separate provider-proposed configuration, account structure, data preparation, import, mapping, validation, reconciliation, integration, and reporting work.
- Ask how roles, approvals, account access, multi-factor authentication, backups, recovery, audit history, and offboarding will be proposed and documented.
- Clarify sandbox or test work, acceptance criteria, issue tracking, cutover timing, parallel work, rollback or correction handling, and responsibility for final approval.
- Request training, operating documentation, administrator handoff, support, future changes, data export, and end-of-service responsibilities in writing.
- Give competing professionals the same entity, system, user, data-period, integration, reporting, transition, and responsibility brief.
Questions to ask an accounting professional about system setup
- What discovery and secure information review do you need before proposing configuration, migration, integrations, access, timing, and responsibilities?
- Which setup, account structure, import, mapping, opening-information, validation, integration, reporting, and documentation tasks are included or excluded?
- How will source records, data periods, known gaps, transformations, exceptions, acceptance criteria, approvals, and issue resolution be documented?
- How will roles, permissions, approvals, multi-factor authentication, backups, recovery, administrator ownership, and offboarding be handled?
- What testing, training, cutover, parallel work, support, change process, export, and final handoff will each party own?
- What assumptions, dependencies, written deliverables, complete fee structure, recurring terms, and post-launch support should be compared?
Write down the answers and any exclusions. If two proposals describe different work, clarify the difference before comparing their totals. Leave unanswered points blank until the professional confirms them.
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Create an account on PickYourPro.ai and start a CPA & Accounting request for accounting-system setup. Share entities, current tools, users, data periods, integrations, reporting needs, timing, and the requested outcome at a high level so participating pros can compete with proposals. Compare setup, migration, validation, access, training, support, handoff, written terms, and fit. Keep credentials, identifiers, account details, and private records out of the request.
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Official references and scope
These are original planning prompts, with AI assistance, prepared by PickYourPro.ai. Official links checked October 11, 2026. This pack has not been independently reviewed by a licensed specialist.
- Internal Revenue Service: Recordkeeping ↗
IRS guidance says a business may choose a recordkeeping system suited to the business that clearly shows income and expenses and notes that transactions generate supporting documents. This worksheet uses that general context only to organize discussion of current systems and available records; it does not state tax or retention requirements.
- National Institute of Standards and Technology: Cybersecurity basics ↗
NIST's small-business page identifies account protection, backups, updates, and staff awareness as basic cybersecurity topics. This worksheet uses that context only to prompt provider questions about proposed access, backups, recovery, training, and handoff; it does not assess risk or prescribe controls.
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