The finance department
The finance department your company is missing.
Bookkeeping, controller, CFO and value growth, run as one connected department. Fill one seat or all four.
Four seats, and who fills each one.
Most companies from $1M to $30M have someone recording what happened. Few have anyone reading the record forward, and almost none have it all aimed at what the business is worth.
How the department works.
The record seats serve the decision seats
Clean, current books are not the goal. They are what lets the CFO seat give you answers you can act on in days, not after the quarter is gone.
One department, one target
Every seat is aimed at the same number: what the business is worth. A tidy close and a forecast mean little if nobody connects them to value.
Advise, not run
The CFO seat goes wherever the numbers point, pricing, people, capacity, the bank, and helps you decide. You and your team still run the business.
Fill only the seats you need
Keep the bookkeeper you trust. Add a controller. Add the CFO seat. The department fits around what you already have.
The CFO seat
The seat that reads the numbers forward.
One or two working sessions a month, built around the decisions in front of you. A cash view that looks ahead, a short read on what changed and why, and one governing constraint at a time. Every recommendation is judged twice: for profit and cash, and for what it does to the value of the business.
The seat starts with the six-week Strategic Insight Intensive, so it is built on what your numbers actually say.
Under $1M, or books behind?
Start with the record seats.
If the books are behind or nobody owns them, that comes first. Our team catches them up and keeps them current, reviewed by 41 Legacy, so the numbers are ready when you want the CFO seat.