The market is shifting. Are you ready to sell?
The last few years have been remarkable for owners selling privately held companies, but the playbook is changing. Here's what we're seeing on the ground right now.
Read moreA complete finance operation: virtual bookkeeping, fractional CFO leadership, and strategic advisory, engineered as one system. Get the financial infrastructure of a billion-dollar company at a fraction of the cost.
We don't sell hours. We deliver a system. Every engagement runs on the same proven framework, the one we've refined across 1,000+ companies over three decades.
We map your current state: books, systems, controls, cash position. Most clients learn something new about their own business in the first week.
Clean the books. Tighten the controls. Set up the reporting cadence. You stop fighting fires and start seeing your numbers in real time.
Forecasting, KPI dashboards, scenario planning, and capital strategy. The kind of insight that separates winning operators from everyone else.
Whether you're raising, selling, acquiring, or just compounding, the financial machinery is ready when you are. No scrambling. No surprises.
Four service lines, one integrated team. Engage one or all of them, by the hour, by the project, or as your ongoing finance leadership.
Day-to-day financial operations handled remotely by a senior team. The foundation that everything else is built on: accurate, timely, audit-ready.
Senior financial leadership embedded in your team. Strategic thinking, board-ready reporting, and the kind of judgment that comes from 25+ years in the seat.
High-stakes decisions, navigated by people who've made them before. Restructurings, turnarounds, growth strategy: the work that determines what kind of company you become.
Buying, selling, or raising? You only get one shot at the deal. We've sat at the table for hundreds of transactions and know where value is created, and where it leaks.
Stop spending nights and weekends on data entry. Our virtual bookkeepers handle the entire financial backend, accurately, securely, and at a fraction of in-house cost. Delegate confidently and get your time back.
Recording daily transactions, posting debits and credits, maintaining the general ledger.
Vendor bills processed, payments scheduled, supplier relationships managed end-to-end.
Invoices generated, payments tracked, overdue accounts followed up, cash collected faster.
Bank, credit card, and balance sheet accounts reconciled, every discrepancy caught.
Wages, deductions, taxes, and reporting: fully prepped, fully compliant, fully on time.
P&L, balance sheets, cash flow statements, and custom reports, delivered on schedule.
Categorized, tracked, and reported. Reimbursements processed without the back-and-forth.
Stock levels monitored, cost of goods calculated, valuation methods applied accurately.
Records organized, summaries prepared, tax accountants given exactly what they need.
Regulatory adherence maintained, audit trails preserved, examiner inquiries handled.
Receipts, invoices, statements digitized and filed in a secure, structured system.
QuickBooks, Xero, integrations, automations: configured right and kept running clean.
CFO For Rent has been in the room when it counts, for thirty years and counting. Our leadership has built, scaled, sold, and turned around companies across seven industries. We don't run plays from a textbook. We run them because we've run them before.
Every engagement is staffed by senior professionals with 25+ years in the seat. No junior associates billing out at senior rates. No handoffs to a team you've never met. Just the people who've actually done the work, doing the work.
We work as part of your team, not from a podium.
Every engagement led by a 25-year veteran.
A four-phase framework refined across 1,000+ engagements.
Remote-first, in-person when needed. $1M to $250M revenue.
We're not the loudest firm in the room. We're the one that gets called back. Here's what that sounds like.
We thought we needed a bookkeeper. What we got was an entire finance department that helped us close our Series B six months ahead of plan. The diligence team called our books "the cleanest set we've seen this year." That doesn't happen by accident.
They walked into a mess and walked out with a finance operation that runs itself. I get my weekends back.
We've used three other firms before this one. None of them sent us senior people who'd actually run a P&L. This team has.
Practical perspectives on selling, financing, and reading the numbers that actually matter.
The last few years have been remarkable for owners selling privately held companies, but the playbook is changing. Here's what we're seeing on the ground right now.
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A 30-minute conversation with senior leadership. We'll review where your finances are, where they need to be, and whether we're the right team to close that gap.
Senior leadership, not a sales rep. The people you talk to are the ones who'd run your engagement.
No pitch deck, no obligation. If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you and point you to someone who is.
You'll leave with something useful. Even a 30-minute call with a 25-year CFO produces actionable insight.
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