Part-Time CFO: Fractional CFO Services
CFO-level thinking, a few days a month.
You've outgrown the bookkeeper. You're not ready to pay $250,000 or more for a full-time CFO, and at your size you'd be paying for a lot of idle time anyway. What you need is the thinking, not the seat. Our Part-Time CFO service puts a seasoned CFO in your business a few days a month: someone who looks forward, tells you what's coming, and helps you decide what to do about it.
Who it's for: owners of manufacturing, distribution and defense businesses who are profitable on paper but always tight on cash, growing fast and nervous about what growth is doing to the bank account, getting ready to borrow, refinance or talk to a buyer, or making six-figure decisions on instinct and a spreadsheet.
What you get
A 13-week cash forecast, updated weekly, so you see a cash squeeze two months out while you still have every option open.
A full-year projection of profit and cash, so you know where the year is heading and can act before it gets there.
Margins by product line, customer or job, so you know which work actually makes money and which only looks like it does.
KPI dashboards: a handful of numbers that matter for your business, reviewed every month.
A monthly strategy and financial review: a working session, owner to CFO, about your actual decisions. Plus unlimited email support for the questions that can't wait.
Your first 90 days and price
Days 1 to 30: See your cash. We build the 13-week forecast and read your three financial statements together.
Days 31 to 60: Find the truth in your margins. We cost a real sample of your work fully loaded and find where cash is stuck: slow receivables, excess inventory, paying vendors early out of habit.
Days 61 to 90: Make it stick. We set up the monthly reports and rhythm that keep you seeing clearly, then act on what the numbers surfaced.
Built for manufacturers: a plain-English profit page by product family that shows where the money actually went, and a focus on the one machine or step that sets the pace for your whole plant.
Price: $2,000 to $5,000/month, depending on scope, agreed up front in writing. Need someone to run the whole finance function? See Interim / Full CFO.
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