CFO Services

Accounting Review

• Check revenue recognition procedures — very often an issue
• Check controls for risk of loss
• Review employee policies for compliance
• Determine if switching to a PEO makes sense
• Evaluate collection procedures and costs
• Upgrade QuickBooks to a SaaS system like NetSuite or Intacct, if necessary
• Write VBA code for Access and Excel to automate key dashboards and reporting
• Speed monthly close
• Check stock and option issuances to confirm minutes are accurate
• Review stock option accounting to ensure 409A valuations were done properly
• Make business ready for due diligence
• Make business ready for audit

Excel & Financial Modeling

Forecasting, budgeting, and models that actually work

• Build and rebuild forecasting, budgeting, and three-statement models from scratch
• Actual-to-budget variance analysis and rolling forecasts that stay useful
• Bring in messy data from any system, clean it, and make it reliable
• Restructure inherited models so they're stable, auditable, and easy to hand off
• Remove hard-coded values, broken links, and brittle formulas that break silently
• Power Query, Power Pivot, advanced formulas, and VBA to automate the grunt work
• Dashboards and reports that update themselves instead of being rebuilt each month
• Models that survive review, audit, and the next person who opens them

Data Review

• Look for ways to reorganize data
• Remove data redundancies
• Reduce chance of human error
• Consolidate data so it's more usable
• Work with developers to add online hosting
• Pool variety of sources of data to extract maximum value
• Institute procedures to maintain data
• Identify KPIs that make company more agile

Strategic Review

Determine revenue and profit potential

• Review product portfolio against other market entrants
• Review product pipeline to see if it syncs with market needs
• Use data mining to help identify opportunities
• Review protection of intellectual property for defensive and offensive value
• Evaluate internet marketing (analytics, SEO, SEM, call to action)
• Evaluate internet as tool to improve internal operations and collaboration
• Revenue, profit, and cash forecast with multiple, flexible scenarios

Financing Review

• Is there enough capital to reach growth potential?
• Can business access debt and equity?
• Is business leveraging investor relationships?
• Eliminate unnecessary business combinations
• Work with attorneys to clean corporate structure
• Check if business has the right board of directors

Business Plan

• Research and write plan
• Identify specific target equity investors and lenders
• Initiate contact with investors and lenders
• Prepare PowerPoint presentation
• Deliver presentations
• Close transactions

Track Results

• Track actual performance against budget at all levels of organization
• Continually evaluate alternative strategies

AI Integration & Automation

Custom AI tools that work for your business

• Write JavaScript code that calls ChatGPT and other LLM APIs
• Automate repetitive financial and operational queries with AI
• Build custom AI-powered dashboards and reporting tools
• Optimize prompts and workflows for consistent, high-quality output
• Integrate AI into existing spreadsheets, databases, and systems
• Advise on AI tools and vendors as a sophisticated power user
• Apply AI to data cleaning, forecasting, and business intelligence