Financial and operational work, scoped to what your business needs now.

Accounting System Review

A structured look at how your books are kept, where the numbers break down, and what to fix first.

Before anything else gets built, the underlying accounting has to be trustworthy. This review walks through your chart of accounts, close process, categorization habits, reconciliations, and the handoffs between whoever touches the books. You get a clear picture of what is working, what is quietly producing bad numbers, and a prioritized sequence for fixing it.

What it includes

• Chart of accounts and categorization review
• Month-end close and reconciliation walkthrough
• Assessment of bookkeeping roles and handoffs
• Prioritized remediation plan with effort estimates

ResultYou know whether your financials can be relied on, and exactly what to correct.

QuickBooks & Management Reporting Setup

A properly structured QuickBooks file and a monthly reporting pack built for decisions, not compliance.

Most owner-led businesses have a QuickBooks file set up for tax filing and nothing else. This work restructures the file so it reflects how your business actually operates, then builds a monthly management reporting pack on top of it: the handful of statements and metrics you should be reading every month, formatted so trends are obvious.

What it includes

• QuickBooks restructuring: accounts, classes, locations, items
• Monthly management reporting pack design
• Departmental or job-level profitability views where relevant
• Documentation so the pack can be produced without me

ResultA monthly report you actually read, produced on a predictable schedule.

Cash-Flow Forecasting

A rolling forecast that shows what cash looks like weeks and months ahead, not just what happened last month.

Profit and cash are different problems. This builds a rolling forecast driven by your real collection patterns, payroll cycle, vendor terms, debt service, and planned spending, with scenarios for the decisions you are weighing. It is maintained as a working tool, updated on a cadence, not a one-time spreadsheet.

What it includes

• 13-week rolling cash forecast
• Longer-horizon annual view tied to your plan
• Scenario modeling for hiring, capital purchases, or financing
• A maintenance routine your team can run

ResultYou see cash pressure early enough to do something about it.

Fractional CFO Support

Ongoing senior financial leadership on a recurring cadence, without a full-time executive salary.

An ongoing engagement with a standing monthly or bi-weekly rhythm: reviewing profitability and cash, building and maintaining the budget and forecast, producing financial statements and a management or board reporting pack, explaining variances against plan, overseeing full-cycle accounting and the internal controls behind it, and coordinating with your bank, lender, and outside tax or insurance advisors. Scope is set to what the business actually needs and revisited as it grows.

What it includes

• Profitability and cash analysis on a recurring cadence
• Budgeting, forecasting, annual planning, and variance analysis
• Financial statements and a management or board reporting pack
• Full-cycle accounting oversight, internal controls, and compliance coordination
• Banking, lender, and advisor coordination
• Support for pricing, hiring, and investment decisions

ResultExperienced financial judgment in the room when decisions get made.

Trust Accounting & Financial Controls

Review and strengthening of how client or owner funds are received, held, reconciled, documented, and paid out.

Businesses that hold money belonging to someone else — guest deposits, owner distributions, tenant funds, escrow-style balances — carry a different standard of care than their operating cash. This work examines the account structure separating those funds from the operating business, the reconciliation routine, the documentation kept behind every movement of money, the approvals required to release funds, and the statements owners receive. Gaps are identified and the corrected process is written down. This is accounting and process work, not legal advice or regulatory representation.

What it includes

• Account structure review: separation of held funds from operating cash
• Reconciliation routine for held-fund accounts, with a defined cadence
• Internal controls: approvals, segregation of duties, release thresholds
• Transaction workflows and the documentation retained for each
• Owner or client statement format and distribution schedule

ResultFunds you hold on someone else's behalf are separated, reconciled, documented, and reportable.

People Operations, HR Systems & SOPs

Policies, hiring and exit processes, role clarity, and written procedures — connected to what the business can actually afford.

Growth exposes undocumented process, and headcount is usually the largest line on the P&L. This work covers both sides: the people-operations machinery — payroll and benefits coordination, recruiting and onboarding, offboarding, employee relations support, handbook and policy documentation, role definitions and responsibility boundaries, and performance and review workflows — and the connection between staffing decisions and financial capacity, so a hire is scoped against real cash and margin rather than optimism. It is practical systems and documentation work, not employment-law counsel.

What it includes

• Payroll and benefits coordination with your providers
• Recruiting, onboarding, and offboarding processes with checklists and owners
• Employee relations support and documented escalation paths
• Policy and handbook documentation your team can maintain
• Role definitions, responsibility boundaries, and approval authority
• Performance and review workflows, plus HR record keeping
• Staffing plans costed against cash flow and margin

ResultPeople decisions run on a documented process and against numbers you can defend.

AI-Assisted Workflow Implementation

Practical automation applied to the repetitive finance and admin work that eats your team's week.

Targeted, careful use of AI and automation where it genuinely reduces manual effort: document handling, categorization support, drafting recurring communications, summarizing reports, and connecting the tools you already pay for. Every workflow keeps a human review step and a record of what happened, because financial process needs an audit trail.

What it includes

• Identification of the highest-effort manual workflows
• Tool selection and implementation
• Human review checkpoints and audit trail design
• Team training and written runbooks

ResultHours returned to your team each month, with controls intact.