STEVENPALMIERI

The Entrepreneur's CFO.

This is the work on the company side, and it starts only when the numbers underneath can hold.

Your finances as the owner come first, because you sign for every loan. Then we make the books true and put a controller on them so the month closes with figures you can trust. After that the CFO work is cash you can see, a plan for the year, tax planning so you keep more of what you earn, and a funding file that gets a yes. We do this for owners under ten million, on books we have checked ourselves.

What the CFO work does each month

Cash

Know what you can spend

A thirteen week cash view is updated every week, with payroll, tax deposits, and debt service already sitting inside it. When a big invoice slips, you see the effect in days instead of at quarter end.

The plan

A year you can run

A twelve month plan built from your real margins, with tax planning sitting inside it so April is not a surprise. We revisit it each month and change it when the business changes.

Capital

Credit that funds the next move

Personal file, then company file, then the application, prepared the way the lender actually wants it. We tell you honestly when the answer will be no, and why.

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Your numbers, on your phone

Cash, receivables, payroll cost, and margin by month and by line, built on your QuickBooks Online data and refreshed as the books close. One place to look, and no exports.

After the foundation

Once the books close, the CFO work is the part you wanted.

Catching up a year of unreconciled transactions is slow, and running a company on a clean close is the opposite. Weekly cash calls take fifteen minutes, the plan gets adjusted instead of rewritten, and capital talks happen before you need the funds. That is why we insist on the controller layer first.

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Questions owners ask before they hire us

Why will you not just be my CFO on day one

Because the first thing a CFO does is read the numbers, and if those numbers are wrong every decision after that is wrong too. Foundation work first makes the CFO work honest.

I am well under ten million. Is that too small

No. That is who this practice is built for. Most fractional CFOs want a company that already has a controller and a clean close. We work with owners who are still building both, and we bring the controller layer with us.

Do I need a company to start

No. The personal door covers 1040s, credit, and IRS work for individuals. Plenty of owners start there, because the personal file was blocking the company anyway.

What does the CFO work cost

Every engagement is quoted in writing after the Foundation Check and a strategy session, because the right shape depends on what the check finds. There is nothing to buy on this site. See Engagements for the three packages we quote.

Ready for the CFO work. Start with the foundation.

Book a free strategy session

Tell us what is going on with the books

One or two sentences is enough. We will read it before we talk so the call starts in the right place.