Bookkeeping
Maintain reconciled records and routine financial information.
SERVICES
Fractional CFO and controller support for growing businesses
Growing businesses often need a repeatable close, useful management reporting, forward-looking cash analysis, and an accountable finance cadence before they need or can support a full internal finance team. Tavella CPA Group provides separately scoped fractional CFO and controller advisory with written deliverables, systems, responsibilities, timing, staffing assumptions, and meeting cadence.
Published Substantively reviewed by Stefano Tavella, CPA
Discuss Fractional CFO SupportFractional finance work an accepted engagement may include
- Monthly or project-based management reporting
- Cash-flow forecasting and working-capital review
- Budgets, forecasts, and scenario modeling
- KPI, margin, pricing-input, and operating-trend review
- Month-end close, reconciliation, and reporting-process oversight
- Bookkeeping-system, chart-of-accounts, and reporting-process review
- Tax-aware financial planning coordination
- Lender, board, or owner reporting support when accepted
- Coordination with payroll, bookkeeping, and tax-return services
Choose the level of financial support you need
The written engagement separates bookkeeping, controller-level coordination, and CFO advisory.
RECORDS AND FACTS
Define the finance systems, reporting users, cadence, and decision needs
The engagement begins by identifying the accounting system, record quality, close process, recurring reports, cash needs, key decisions, reporting audience, and client team responsible for source records and approvals.
- Accounting platform, chart of accounts, close calendar, reconciliations, and current reports
- Revenue, cost, payroll, debt, owner activity, working-capital, and cash records
- Existing budget, forecast, KPI definitions, reporting packages, and decision timetable
- Bookkeeper, payroll provider, operations team, owners, lenders, board, and tax adviser responsibilities
- System access, approval controls, document flow, data limitations, and security requirements
- Desired cadence, meetings, deliverables, update process, and decision owners
BEFORE YOU REQUEST A CALL
See what fits this service and what is scoped separately
This service may be a fit when
- A growing business needs recurring management reporting and cash-flow visibility
- Bookkeeping exists but close ownership, reconciliation oversight, or reporting discipline is limited
- Owners need budgets, scenarios, KPIs, margins, and tax-aware decision support
- Client leadership can supply timely records, approve assumptions, and retain management responsibility
These items require separate scope or another professional
- Bookkeeping, payroll, tax returns, notices, system implementation, and historical cleanup
- Audit, review, compilation, attestation, assurance, or auditor-independence conclusions
- Investment advice, securities advice, financing commitments, solvency opinions, valuation opinions, or guaranteed financial results
- Cadence, staffing, systems, client responsibilities, deliverables, dependencies, and timing must be documented in writing
Build a written operating cadence around reliable records
The initial assessment evaluates the books, close readiness, reporting needs, planning horizon, systems, staff responsibilities, and deadlines. The engagement then defines recurring or project deliverables, assumptions, meeting cadence, source-data cutoff, client approvals, and the boundary between bookkeeping, controller oversight, CFO advisory, tax work, and external professional services.
ANTICIPATED DELIVERABLE
What a fractional CFO or controller package may include
The exact package is tailored and listed in the signed engagement rather than implied by the service name.
- Close checklist and unresolved-item register
- Management profit-and-loss, balance-sheet, cash-flow, KPI, or margin package
- Rolling cash forecast, budget, or scenario model with stated assumptions
- Owner, lender, or board reporting materials when accepted
- Finance-process observations and assigned next steps
- Tax, bookkeeping, payroll, lender, or specialist coordination items
COMMON QUESTIONS
Questions about fractional cfo and outsourced-controller advisory
Is fractional CFO support the same as bookkeeping?
No. Bookkeeping records transactions and reconciles accounts. Controller and CFO work may oversee close quality, management reporting, forecasts, KPIs, scenarios, and decisions. Any bookkeeping included is identified separately in the engagement.
Can Tavella CPA Group provide lender or board reporting?
Potentially, when the audience, source records, form, assumptions, timing, and responsibility are accepted in writing. The service does not provide assurance, a financing commitment, or a solvency or valuation opinion.
Does Tavella CPA Group make management decisions for the business?
No. Management remains responsible for records, controls, estimates, assumptions, approvals, operations, financing, and decisions. Tavella CPA Group provides only the advisory and reporting work listed in the engagement.
How should sensitive records be provided?
Do not send tax returns, taxpayer identification numbers, payroll files, bank records, ownership documents, or other sensitive information through the public contact form or ordinary email. Secure upload instructions are provided only after Tavella CPA Group accepts the engagement and opens the appropriate client workflow.
Does submitting a request create an engagement or reserve a deadline?
No. A request does not create a CPA-client relationship, start work, guarantee acceptance, or reserve a filing or response deadline. Work begins only after acceptance, conflict and capacity review where applicable, and a signed written engagement that identifies the scope, responsibilities, timing, and fee.
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