Outsourced accounting teams: onshore, offshore, or employer-of-record?

dave1984 · 8/5/2025

We looked at all three. Straight offshore was cheapest and highest churn. Employer-of-record gave us a dedicated person we could actually train. Onshore CPA-led cost the most and caught the most. Curious what mix people landed on and at what size.

4 replies

Offshore worked once we wrote real SOPs. Before that we were paying 4 people to be confused in a different time zone.
gm_of_nothing · 8/6/2025
Overlap hours matter more than cost. 3 hours of overlap beats 20% cheaper every time.
jenn_from_provo · 8/6/2025
Good point, we are on the fence about an EOR mostly for that reason.
dave1984 · 8/7/2025
Turnover is the hidden bill. Third replacement in a year and you have retrained more than you saved.
801hustle · 9/3/2025