Financials your board can actually trust.
In-house accounting, monthly packages by the 10th, live reserve tracking, and variance analysis that flags problems before they become emergencies — for fully managed associations and for self-managed boards that just want their books done right.
Community managers shouldn't double as accountants. Ours don't.
Most management firms run community accounting on the side — a manager hand-keys deposits, reconciles when they can, and presents financials they may or may not fully understand. The numbers go in front of boards who never had the data to challenge them. That's how communities end up underfunding reserves for a decade without realizing it.
CPE separates the work. A dedicated, in-house accounting team — with an accounting manager available directly to boards — owns the books. Community association managers are trained to read and present those financials confidently. Reserve studies stay live through monthly tracking. Boards make decisions on data they can audit, not on a quarterly snapshot.
Nine practices that run every month, the same way, on the same schedule.
Accounting and financial management as a discipline — not a task list someone finds time for.
Monthly financial packages
Balance sheet, income statement, accounts payable register, accounts receivable aging, bank reconciliations, and YTD budget-to-actuals — delivered by the 10th of each month.
Variance analysis with narrative
Every abnormal line item is flagged with a short written explanation. Boards see the why, not just the number.
Receivables & collections
Active monitoring against each community's adopted collections policy. Escalation triggers, late-fee handling, and attorney coordination when required.
Integrated banking & disbursement
Operating and reserve accounts held at established community-banking partners. Payables run on a defined cadence with board controls in place.
Live reserve tracking
Through our Smart Properties partnership, your reserve study is brought current monthly — actual contributions, interest, and expenses against projections, on a single page.
Annual budget development
Operating budgets tied to real asset conditions and historical line-item data. Reviewed with the board across a multi-meeting cycle, not dropped in a packet.
Audit & tax coordination
We work directly with the community's CPA on annual audits and tax filings. Documents are organized digitally so the audit process doesn't consume your manager's quarter.
Manager financial training
Our community association managers are trained on balance-sheet and income-statement fundamentals — so the conversation in your board meeting is informed, not deflected.
Owner portal & e-statements
Owners see statements, pay common charges, and access community documents through the CINC portal. Boards see real-time AR aging anytime.
Your reserve study, made live.
A reserve study commissioned once and filed is useful for one budget cycle. Through our Smart Properties partnership, we update the study monthly with actual data — so the board always sees where reserves stand against the long-range plan, not where they stood 18 months ago.
This is the single change that most improves board conversations around capital planning, common-charge levels, and special-assessment risk. The math stops being a surprise.
Read: HOA reserve study guideThree different relationships, the same standard.
Fully managed communities
Accounting is built into every full-service management engagement. The accounting manager and community manager work from the same system — no handoffs between firms.
See full-service managementSelf-managed boards
Keep operational decisions in-house while outsourcing the financial discipline — monthly packages, reserve tracking, AR management, and audit support.
Request an accounting proposalTransitioning communities
Moving from one management firm to another — or from self-managed to fully managed? Accounting is usually the first thing we stand up. The financial baseline informs everything after.
Learn about transitionsBoards notice when the financials show up on time, every time.
"We finally have financials we can take to a bank. The package is on the 10th, every month, without us asking."
"The reserve one-pager changed how we run our budget meetings. Funding decisions used to be guesses — now they're conversations about real data."
Accounting fees depend on your community — but we'll show you the math.
Fees vary by unit count, transaction volume, bank-account structure, and whether the engagement is accounting-only or part of full-service management. We don't publish a flat per-unit rate, but we'll walk through the components openly during the proposal call so there are no surprises.
- No setup fees for new engagements — onboarding costs are absorbed.
- Month-to-month after year one — you're never trapped if the relationship isn't working.
- Bundled audit support — annual CPA coordination is included, not a line item.
- Transparent scope changes — if your community's needs shift, we explain the impact before changing anything.
What boards want to know before moving the books.
Your board deserves a partner — not an order-taker.
If your community is ready for clearer communication, stronger planning, and dependable execution, we'd welcome a conversation. No pitch deck — just a candid discussion of where you are and where you'd like to be.