Accounting
& Finance
Support.
Clean records, accurate workflows, and financial reporting that gives you genuine clarity every single month — so you can make confident decisions and stop guessing.
Financial Clarity.
Every Month.
Unclear financials lead to poor decisions. When your accounting processes are disorganised, inconsistent, or simply outpaced by growth, you're essentially flying blind. You can't manage what you can't clearly see.
Hartley Michaels Consulting cleans up your financial workflows, builds reliable close processes, and creates reporting that gives you accurate, actionable insight — every month, without the scramble or the guesswork.
With a background in accounting, payroll, and business operations, Beth Hartley provides practical financial and operational support tailored to the needs of small businesses — delivered through flexible engagements that fit your workflow and budget.
Everything Your Accounting
Process Requires
Custom-written policies and handbooks that reflect your business, your culture, and your legal obligations — not a generic template with your logo dropped in.
Consistent, professional employee experiences from the first day to the final day — protecting your business and setting the right tone at every transition.
Federal and state employment requirements translated into practical, actionable frameworks — so you're protected without needing a law degree to understand it.
Clear expectations, structured review processes, and the documentation framework that supports difficult decisions when they become necessary.
A comprehensive review of your current HR practices — identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities to build systems that scale as your business grows.
Ongoing access to senior HR expertise when you need it — guidance on specific situations, policy updates, compliance questions, or employee issues as they arise.
Accounting Support That Fits
Your Situation
Your month-end close is painful, your reports don't tell you what you need to know, or you're not confident your numbers are accurate. We fix the underlying process.
Your accounting processes worked when you were smaller but aren't keeping pace with your growth. We build workflows and controls that scale with your business.
Your books are technically maintained but you never have the financial clarity to make confident decisions. We improve reporting so your financials actually inform leadership.
Your Accounting Engagement,
Step by Step
We assess your current accounting processes, close procedures, reporting, and system setup — identifying where accuracy is breaking down and what to fix first.
We outline the specific accounting improvements your situation requires, sequenced by impact — so you get financial clarity as quickly as possible.
We redesign workflows, rebuild processes, and implement controls directly alongside your team — changes that stick, not a report that sits on a shelf.
You end up with a structured, documented close process that produces clean financials every month — and ongoing support available as your business evolves.
CPA Certification — Earned 1993.
Genuinely Senior.
Beth Hartley holds the SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) credential — the senior-level HR certification from the Society for Human Resource Management. This isn't generalist HR guidance. It's senior-level expertise without the senior-level full-time cost.
What makes the Hartley Michaels approach unique is the combination of experience across accounting, payroll, HR, and operations. Beth understands how workforce decisions connect with payroll processes, financial reporting, and day-to-day business operations — helping businesses stay organized, efficient, and aligned.
Accounting Questions
Answered Honestly
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Clarity Now.
One conversation is enough to know whether your accounting needs a full rebuild or just a targeted improvement. Beth will tell you honestly what your situation calls for.