Fractional CFO & Bookkeeping
Your books are a mess.
Your growth doesn't
have to wait for them.
Harrington Strategic Partners brings clean financials, real-time
visibility, and strategic financial leadership to trades,
manufacturing, distribution, healthcare, and retail businesses
scaling from $1M to $10M in revenue.
The Shift
What got you to $1M won't get you to $10M.
Every stage of growth asks something different of your finances. The bookkeeping that worked when you were proving the business out starts to crack once you're running crews, locations, or product lines you actually have to manage. Here's how the need changes as the revenue does.
$1M – $3M
Clean books stop being enough
Accurate, reconciled transactions got you this far. Past this point, you need to know margin by job, product line, or location, and most owners here are still guessing. The reports exist; they just don't answer the question you're actually asking.
- Margin visibility by job, product line, or location, not just overall
- A real read on cash position, beyond what's in the bank today
$3M – $6M
Decisions need a financial plan behind them
Adding a crew, a location, a product line, these calls stop being gut instinct and start needing real cash flow and forecasting behind them. This is usually where a monthly report isn't enough; someone needs to model what a decision does to cash before you make it, not after.
- Cash flow forecasting before you commit to new overhead
- Scenario modeling for hiring, new locations, or new equipment
Along the way
Inventory, job costing, and multi-location reporting turn into a black box
The systems that worked at $1M don't scale on their own someone has to build the next version. What started as a spreadsheet or a single QuickBooks file wasn't built for tracked inventory, job-level costing, or multiple locations, and by the time it's holding you back, unwinding it is its own project.
-Inventory and COGS tracking that actually matches reality
-Systems that hold up across more than one location or entity
This is the gap between books that are technically done and financial leadership that keeps pace with growth. That gap is what we close.
What We Do
Strategic financial services, built for where you are.
We work with companies at two levels, sometimes both at once, plus one time projects along the way.
Foundation
Bookkeeping Services
Clean, accurate, on-time books with add-on services scoped to your business, the foundation everything else depends on.
Strategic
Fractional CFO Services
Strategic financial leadership without a full-time hire: process improvements, software implementation, scaling prep, resource planning, and inventory management.
One-Time
Special Projects
Scoped, one-time engagements for a specific problem — software migrations, historical cleanup, a one-time financial model, and more.
Multi-entity business? Ask about our multi-company discount.
Multi-Entity Expertise
Built for companies with more than one set of books.
As your business grows — a second location, a related entity, a holding structure
your bookkeeping needs get more complicated fast.
01
Multi-Entity Bookkeeping
Hands-on experience managing books across related companies and locations, not just one clean set at a time.
02
Intercompany Reconciliations
Transactions between entities net out cleanly, instead of creating a mess for someone to untangle at year-end.
03
Consolidated & Eliminated Statements
One accurate picture of the whole business for you, your lender, or your board — not just each piece in isolation.
If your structure has outgrown a single set of books, this is exactly the kind of
complexity we're built to handle.
Fractional CFO Tiers
Three ways to work together.
Tier Two
Strategic Partner
For companies ready to plan ahead. Forward-looking strategy, budgeting, cash flow planning, and support for the decisions in front of you.
Tier Three
Scale & Compliance
For companies preparing for real growth or outside scrutiny — bank financing, acquisition readiness, multi-location complexity, or ownership transition.
Every fractional CFO engagement starts with a Financial Diagnostic, a one-time deep dive into your current financial infrastructure, so we scope the right level of support instead of guessing. Compare the tiers in detail →
Bookkeeping Packages
Four tiers, built around how your business runs.
Package One
Foundation
For small or early-stage businesses running a single entity.
Package Two
Growth
For established businesses with moderate day-to-day volume.
Package Three
Scale
For larger operations managing multiple accounts and cards.
Package Three
Enterprise
For multi-location or high-complexity books.
Every bookkeeping engagement starts with a complimentary Bookkeeping Diagnostic, so you land in the right package and any cleanup work is scoped up front. See full package details →
Who We Work With
Built for operators, not consultants.
We work exclusively with companies that make, move, build, or deliver something.
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Specialty Trades & Contractors
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Manufacturing & Fabrication
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Wholesale Distribution
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Multi-Location Healthcare
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Growing Retail & E-Commerce
Our Partner Network
Backed by specialists in the areas we don't cover.
We stay focused on bookkeeping and strategic financial leadership. When you need payroll, tax preparation, or legal support, we connect you with partners we trust to do it right.
Payroll
Trusted providers who handle it end to end.
Tax Preparation
Specialists who know how to file it right.
Legal
Counsel for the questions outside our scope.
Why Harrington
A CFO who's also been in the books.
I'm Lieah Torbert, founder of Harrington Strategic Partners. Most fractional CFOs come from the top down, strategy first, allergic to the details. I came up through bookkeeping, so I understand both ends: the transaction-level mess actually happening in your books, and the strategic view your business needs on top of it.
That combination matters most at exactly the stage you're at, where the books usually aren't clean enough to build a real strategy on top of yet. We fix that, then we build on it.
Founder, Harrington Strategic Partners
Get Started
Find out where your business actually stands.
The Financial Diagnostic is the starting point for every engagement a clear-eyed look at your current financial infrastructure and what it would take to get you real visibility and strategic support.
