Industry Specialty: EdTech & Education

Financial Clarity for
Modern Education.

Stop struggling with upfront tuition, complex instructor payouts, and fragmented LMS data. We build scalable, audit-ready books for scaling EdTechs and institutions.

The Accounting Trap

Why Education breaks normal bookkeepers.

EdTech isn't standard retail. If your bookkeeper doesn't understand semester-based revenue deferral, instructor revenue shares, or campus-level profitability, your P&L is fundamentally wrong.

A Standard CPA Will...

  • Book a student's $10k annual tuition upfront in Month 1, artificially inflating your profit and violating accounting standards.
  • Fail to reconcile payouts from LMS platforms (Teachable, Canvas) with actual bank deposits, missing fees and refunds.
  • Lump all expenses together, making it impossible to know which specific courses or campuses are actually profitable.
  • Struggle with complex, variable instructor payouts based on student completion rates or revenue shares.

Qepex Education Books Will...

  • Manage deferred tuition schedules, recognizing revenue gradually over the duration of the course or semester.
  • Reconcile LMS data and payment gateways. We match individual student payments to bank deposits and isolate gateway fees.
  • Implement Class/Location tracking, giving you a crystal clear P&L for every specific course, cohort, or physical campus.
  • Automate and reconcile complex instructor payroll, revenue shares, and affiliate commissions seamlessly.

The Education Finance Suite

Our complete accounting infrastructure designed specifically for enrollment-driven, multi-course educational businesses.

A. Tuition & Revenue Recognition

Deferred Revenue Schedules

When a student pays upfront for a 6-month bootcamp, that cash isn't immediate profit. We hold it in liability accounts and recognize it gracefully over the life of the course, keeping your P&L accurate.

Deliverable

Monthly Deferred Tuition Roll-forward Schedule.

LMS & Gateway Reconciliation

We sync your platform data (Teachable, Canvas, Kajabi) directly with your clearing accounts. We match gross course sales, deduct exact processing fees, account for student refunds, and record the net bank deposit.

B. Course & Campus Profitability

Class / Location Tracking

We map your Chart of Accounts using tracking categories. Hosting costs, instructor fees, and marketing spend are attributed directly to the specific course, cohort, or physical campus they belong to.

Outcome

You finally know your real Gross Margin percentage per course.

C. Instructor Payouts & Payroll

Revenue Share & Contract Reconciliation

EdTech relies heavily on variable instructor pay (e.g., 30% of course sales, or pay-per-completed-student). We audit these calculations, accrue the liabilities correctly, and ensure payouts match the underlying data.

D. The Month-End Close

Strict 7-Day Close Cycle

We run a disciplined close. Bank reconciliations, tuition accruals, payroll mapping, and platform fee adjustments are locked down. You receive a clean Financial Reporting Pack by Day 7.

The Modern EdTech Stack

We integrate seamlessly with the LMS, billing, and payroll engines that power top educational companies.

Ledgers

  • QuickBooks Online
  • Xero
  • NetSuite

LMS Platforms

  • Teachable
  • Thinkific
  • Canvas
  • Kajabi

Billing & Payments

  • Stripe
  • Razorpay
  • PayPal

Global Payroll

  • Deel
  • Gusto
  • Rippling
Implementation

Onboarding & Clean-Up

Phase 1: Architecture Review

Weeks 1-2

We audit your current accounting instance. We map out your enrollment channels, check your Stripe/LMS integrations, and restructure your Chart of Accounts with Course-level tracking categories.

Phase 2: Historical Clean-Up

Weeks 3-4

If you have messy historical data, we fix it. We tie out your bank balances, fix opening retained earnings, and build your initial deferred tuition waterfall schedules.

Phase 3: Ongoing Monthly Operations

Month 2 Onwards

We enter our steady rhythm. Daily transaction coding, instructor payout management, and our strict 7-day month-end close delivering your Course Profitability P&L.

EdTech Pricing

Scale Without The Bloat

Get an elite finance function for the fraction of the cost of a full-time Controller.

Early Stage

For single-course creators or early EdTechs.

Starts $699/mo

  • Cash-basis or simple accrual
  • EdTech Chart of Accounts
  • Monthly P&L and Balance Sheet
  • Up to 2 bank/payment accounts
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Most Popular

Growth (Multi-Course)

Full accrual accounting for scaling platforms.

Starts $1,499/mo

Confirmed in writing

  • Full Accrual Bookkeeping
  • Deferred Tuition tracking
  • Class & Location Profitability P&L
  • LMS & Stripe Reconciliation
  • Instructor Payout tracking
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M&A / Clean-up

One-time sprints to fix historical mess.

Custom /project

  • Historical transaction coding
  • Retained earnings tie-out
  • Rebuilding historical tuition schedules
  • Due Diligence Data Room prep
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Focus on education.
We'll handle the math.

Stop worrying if your enrollments match your bank deposits. Get EdTech-native financial operations today.