Insights
Notes from the second chair.
Not generic CFO content. Decisions, patterns and lessons from inside owner-led businesses.
Where does the next dollar actually belong?
Most owners do not have one obvious use for capital. They have five reasonable ones competing at the same time. That is where CFO work gets interesting.
Read →Job costingRevenue is not the same thing as good work.
A project can be huge, exciting and completely wrong for the business. The question is what happened after labor, materials, freight, subcontractors, change orders and management time hit the job.
Read →Project economicsIf you learn the margin after the project closes, you learned it too late.
The best project-based businesses know where the job is going while there is still time to change the outcome.
Read →M&ADiligence is a trust exercise.
Buyers are not just testing the numbers. They are testing whether the story management is telling matches the economics underneath it.
Read →Owner-led companiesThe owner does not need another dashboard.
They need to know what matters, what decision needs to be made, and what happens if they do nothing.
Read →Sell-sideIf you are fixing the books during diligence, you are already late.
The best transaction work starts before the buyer shows up.
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