Fractional finance leadership for schools and education nonprofits.
Independent schools, education nonprofits, and endowment-holding organizations balance restricted funds, tuition revenue, board audits, and long-term endowment reporting. We bring the same senior finance seat we bring to other sectors, tuned to the education fiscal-year calendar.
Why schools and education nonprofits bring us in.
Endowment reporting, restricted-fund accounting, tuition-driven cash cycles, and a fiscal year that turns over in July all show up in the same finance function. Boards want a finance narrative aligned to the academic calendar and audit-ready ahead of the fall meetings.
The services schools reach for.
Fractional CFO
Board-ready finance leadership tuned to the academic fiscal year and endowment reporting.
See Fractional CFOSenior Finance Director & Controller
Fractional Director or Controller running day-to-day school finance operations.
See Senior Finance Director & ControllerFinancial Operations & Reporting
Monthly and annual reporting, budget management, and cash flow oversight on a school-year calendar.
See Financial Operations & Reporting
Sized to the school year, not the calendar year.
We shape engagements around the education fiscal calendar: budget building in the spring, board-ready reporting through the summer close, audit readiness before the fall board meeting, and continuous restricted-fund reporting throughout. The rhythm respects when your board actually convenes.
Nonprofit and school leaders on the work.
Each proposal is paired with the specific engagement outcome it followed, so you can see the shape of the work, not just the sentiment.
Marjorie's calm confidence and friendly demeanor provided us with stability during our transition.
Seamless interim Director of Accounting coverage during permanent recruitment. Month-end closes continued without a missed cycle.
Their expertise, efficiency, and calm command of the work immediately gave our staff and board confidence.
Crisis-period finance leadership through complex audit preparation. Day-to-day operations covered without disruption.
Their optimization of our NetSuite environment has significantly enhanced our reporting capabilities.
NetSuite reconfiguration and executive-team financial literacy uplift during a leadership transition.
One Abacus' outside viewpoint and collaboration allowed us to create a more effective budgeting system.
New budgeting system and cash-forecasting cadence delivered and adopted by the finance team.
They quickly mobilized a talented group of professionals who handled everything with expertise and ease.
Day-to-day accounting and audit preparation carried through a critical grants-heavy period.
Their expertise was instrumental as we rebuilt our financial operations from the ground up.
Financial-operations reconstruction alongside an organizational restructuring.
I have had the pleasure of working with Lorin and her team for many of my Independent School clients. She is very responsive when I call and always has accounting resources with specific school / non profit experience. Each person I have used from her team has hit the ground running with very little ramp up time. Their work is exceptional and they work to truly become part of the internal team. I am very grateful for Lorin and her ability to source school-specific talent for our short- and longer-term accounting staffing!
School-specific accounting staff placed across multiple independent school clients, for short- and longer-term engagements, with very little ramp-up time.