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MCA & Syndication

Merchant cash advance & syndication accounting

Syndication ledgers that actually reconcile. Merchant cash advance accounting is our specialty — deal-level syndication included. Most bookkeepers can't track participation across funders, fees, and collections; we built our practice around it.

The short answer

What is MCA & Syndication accounting?

Merchant cash advance (MCA) accounting records an advance as a purchase of future receivables — not a loan — so each repayment is split into principal and financing cost. In a syndication, it also tracks participation, collections, and fees deal by deal across funders, keeping revenue, the true cost of capital, and every partner's share accurate and reconciled.

The challenge

Where it gets hard

These are the places generic bookkeeping breaks down for mca & syndication — and exactly what we account for.

  • Syndication participation split across multiple funders and deals
  • Factor rates, fees, and commissions muddying real revenue
  • Collections, renewals, and defaults that have to be tracked deal-by-deal
  • Generic bookkeepers who don't understand the MCA model

Our approach

What we do about it

Specialist bookkeeping, AI-assisted and then human- and CPA-reviewed — built for how your business actually runs.

  • Deal-level syndication ledgers: participation, fundings, and collections by funder
  • Revenue recognition done right — deferral or accelerated, explained in plain language
  • Clean separation of factor income, fees, commissions, and broker payouts
  • Syndicate / investor reporting you can actually hand to partners
  • CPA-reviewed financials built for lenders, partners, and tax time

The tool we built

McaHawk

MCA tracked the way it actually works — deal by deal, funder by funder.

Generic accounting forces merchant cash advance into accounts it was never built for. So we built a tool that models the deal itself — participation, fundings, fees, and collections, by funder and by deal — with revenue recognition stated in plain language. The edge no off-the-shelf product can match.

See the platform

New to the terminology? Browse the MCA & syndication glossary.

  • Deal-level ledgers — participation, fundings, fees & collections, by funder and by deal
  • Factor income and revenue recognition in plain language — deferral or accelerated
  • Per-deal and per-funder P&L — not one company-wide number that hides the truth
  • Syndication reporting your partners and lenders can actually trust

FAQ

MCA & Syndication accounting, answered

The questions we hear most about mca & syndication books — answered straight.

  • A merchant cash advance isn't a loan — it's a purchase of future receivables. It has to be recorded as a liability with the principal and the financing cost split out, and in a syndication the participation has to be tracked deal-by-deal across funders. Generic bookkeeping treats it as a single transaction, and that's where the numbers stop tying out.

Books you don't have to think about.

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