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MCA & Syndication

MCA accounting services

Merchant cash advance books. Every deal accounted for. Merchant cash advance accounting and syndication bookkeeping for U.S. funders, syndicators, brokers, and businesses using advances. We reconcile funding, collections, fees, and participant balances so your reports connect to the money that actually moved.

The short answer

What is MCA accounting?

MCA accounting is the bookkeeping and reporting of merchant cash advance activity: funding, fees, collections, outstanding balances, and the income or costs attributable to each deal. For syndicated deals, it also tracks each participant's contributions, distributions, and fees. The appropriate accounting treatment depends on the agreement and whether you are the funder, participant, broker, or merchant.

Your role. Your records.

Merchant cash advance accounting for your side of the deal.

Based in Teaneck, New Jersey, we support U.S. businesses remotely. Your accounting scope follows the activity you manage, from one merchant’s advances to a portfolio with multiple participants.

MCA funders

Connect each funding to collections, factor income, commissions, renewals, and remaining balances. Reconcile the deal ledger to your bank activity and accounting records.

See the MCA month-end checklist

Syndicators & investors

Track capital contributed, participation percentages, management fees, distributions, and open positions. See what each participant put in and what they received.

Explore participant reporting

Businesses using an MCA

Reconcile the cash received, withheld fees, daily or weekly collections, renewals, and remaining obligations. Keep funding activity clearly separated from your operating sales.

Understand factor rate and APR

Brokers & ISOs

Match commissions to funded deals, monitor amounts due, and track clawbacks and adjustments. Bring the supporting records together for reporting and tax preparation.

Read the ISO commission guide

MCA reconciliation and portfolio tracking are included within your agreed monthly bookkeeping scope. We confirm deal volume, participants, source data, and reporting before quoting.

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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 built for your business, with human review of AI-assisted work and CPA review of bookkeeping transactions.

  • 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
  • Financial reports from reconciled books, with CPA review of bookkeeping transactions

The tool we built

McaHawk™

Easily auditable portfolios. Every detail, down to the deal.

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. McaHawk manages funder and syndicator portfolios and their bookkeeping records, tracking the funder and each syndicator participating in the same deal. Detailed deal-level ledgers make portfolios easy to review and audit.

See the platform

Planning a new deal? Try the free merchant cash advance calculator to model funding, fees, net commissions, and syndicator returns.

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

  • Easily auditable funder and syndicator portfolios, with detailed records for every deal
  • Track the funder and each syndicator separately on multi-participant deals
  • 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.

Books you don't have to think about.

Get a free books review. We'll tell you honestly where things stand and give you a flat monthly quote — no pressure.

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