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.
