Finance resources for growing businesses
Guides, insights, and industry-specific finance resources — plain-language, no filler.
Core reading
Bookkeeper vs. Controller
What each role does, and when to move from one to the other.
Read →Why a monthly close matters
How closing on a set date changes the decisions you can make.
Read →Reading your margins
Why blended totals lie, and how margin by line shows the truth.
Read →Which finance leader do you need?
Score your business across 10 domains — Controller, VP, or CFO — in two minutes.
Take the diagnostic →Are your books ready for a government contract?
Score your accounting across cost structure, timekeeping, indirect rates, billing and close — in ten minutes.
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Insights
Articles on bookkeeping, controllership, and the finance questions owners ask.
32 articles →Guides
Step-by-step guides on close, forecasting, and financial fundamentals.
Guides →Government Contractors
Accounting system requirements, indirect rates, timekeeping, job cost, and the incurred cost submission.
13 articles →Field Services
Cash flow, job costing, and bookkeeping for HVAC and trades businesses.
19 articles →Franchise
Unit economics, multi-unit cash flow, and KPIs for franchise operators.
30 articles →Medical Practice
Revenue cycle, profitability, and finance operations for practice owners.
15 articles →Nonprofit
Fund accounting, board reporting, grants, and reserves.
10 articles →EOS & Finance
Scorecards, cash forecasting, and the finance seat for EOS companies.
7 articles →Great Plains Migration
Planning a move off Dynamics GP — options and decision guides.
16 articles →How this library is organized
By the way a business earns, not by accounting topic. The mechanics of a franchise close have little in common with a nonprofit close, and grouping them together helps nobody.
- Franchise — unit economics, royalty and marketing fund treatment, multi-unit reporting, and the thresholds where structure has to change
- Medical practice — insurance reconciliation, contractual adjustments, payer mix, and provider-level profitability
- Nonprofit — fund accounting, restricted and unrestricted tracking, Form 990 preparation, and audit readiness
- Field services — job costing, work in progress, fleet and equipment cost, and cash timing on project work
- EOS — what the finance seat owns inside the framework, and the measurables worth putting on a scorecard
- Great Plains migration — moving off legacy Dynamics GP, and choosing honestly between the destinations
Everything here is written to be useful on its own. Nothing is gated, and none of it requires talking to us first.
Where to start, by what you are trying to do
You are behind and want to know how bad it is
Start with what a QuickBooks cleanup involves, then catch-up bookkeeping for how the work is scoped and priced.
Revenue is up but profit is not
Revenue up, profit flat covers the usual causes, and which products or locations make money shows how to find out which line is carrying the others.
You are deciding who to hire next
Bookkeeper vs controller vs CFO lays out what each role owns, and is this hire adding margin covers how to tell after the fact.
You do not know what a term means
The bookkeeping glossary defines 24 terms an owner actually runs into, in plain language.
A sale or a lender is on the horizon
Sale preparation covers what a buyer's team looks for, and is my business worth more than it pays me covers the underlying question.
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