Senior accounting advisory
Big-four power.Startup pace.
Quality of Earnings (QofE) and recurring senior accounting leadership for the middle market through to traditional search, ETA, and smaller public companies.
Hollywell Partners is now part of Numera. Your Hollywell partners are still your partners—same senior team, bigger bench.
Our approach
When millions ride on the answer, you shouldn't have to choose between big-firm rigor and deal speed. Numera puts Big Four–trained senior experts on your work in days—people who find what smaller providers miss.
What you can expect
Clarity.
We find what other small-deal providers miss—because the people on your work are genuinely big-firm trained, not just big-firm priced.
Velocity.
Senior teams on your work in days, with answers that keep pace with the deal—not a mobilization calendar.
Impact.
Findings that move the deal—price, protections, and post-close priorities—not a report for the shelf.
Senior work stays senior
The Big Four–trained professionals you meet on day one are the ones doing your analysis—it is never handed down a chain of juniors.
We find what others miss
We read accounting choices, operating realities, and deal mechanics together—so the risks that hide between the silos show up in your report.
Scope changes. Rigor does not.
A smaller deal gets a right-sized scope, never a lighter standard—the diligence is just as real.
Leadership beyond close
After close, the same team can run your monthly close, reporting, and forecasting as your CFO + Controller bench.
How we work with our clients
Help with the deal.
Help long after it.
Bring us in to vet an acquisition, keep us on to run your accounting, or both—what we learn about your business in diligence carries straight into how your finance function operates.
Advisory services
Quality of Earnings
Know exactly what you’re buying—or selling.
A Quality of Earnings scoped to your deal—from focused reviews for smaller transactions to full-scope work on targets with up to $200M in annual revenue—so you negotiate on real numbers, not the seller’s story.
- Buy- and sell-side Quality of Earnings
- Working-capital, revenue-quality, and cash-flow analysis
- Senior teams deployable in days
- Findings connected to valuation, protections, and post-close priorities
Four tests, run together and reconciled into one decision-ready answer.
- Revenue qualityVerified
- Working capitalNormalized
- Cash conversionTraced
- Add-backs & normalizationReviewed
“The best team to take you where you want to go is one who’s already been there.”
Mike JermanNumera Advisory Practice Leader
Who we serve
Built for the middle market—and the decisions around it.
From a first institutional acquisition to recurring public-company accounting needs, the model scales around the complexity of the work without pushing senior attention out of reach.
Private equity portfolio companies
Traditional search and ETA companies
Mid-market and smaller public companies
Ready when timing matters
Put senior eyes on it.
Quality of Earnings, CFO + Controller leadership, and technical accounting—one senior team, under one roof, ready in days.