Practical guidance for manufacturing operators
No filler. Each article covers a specific financial challenge operators in manufacturing and distribution actually face.
5 Signs Your Manufacturing Business Needs a Fractional CFO
Revenue is up and the floor is busy — but cash feels tighter than the P&L suggests and decisions keep getting made on gut feel. Here's how to know when you've outgrown your current finance function.
How to Build a 13-Week Cash Flow Forecast for a Manufacturing Business
Lenders ask for them. Boards expect them. And yet most manufacturers don't have one — or have a spreadsheet that's already a week out of date. Here's how to build one that actually works.
Why Your Month-End Close Takes Three Weeks — And How to Fix It
If your March financials arrive on April 18th, you're managing a live business with six-week-old data. A slow close is almost always fixable. Here's where it breaks and how to address it.
Job Costing for Manufacturers: How to See Your True Profitability
Your P&L tells you whether the business made money. Job costing tells you where. Without it, you're pricing on instinct — and you may be subsidizing your least profitable work without knowing it.
Fractional CFO vs. Full-Time CFO: What Makes Sense for a $10M–$100M Manufacturer
The question isn't whether you need strategic financial leadership. It's whether you need it full-time. Here's how to think through the decision — and what each option actually costs.