The finance-committee partner your board has been asking for.
Strategic partnership with nonprofit executive leadership and boards. We translate financial complexity into insights directors can act on, and we bring your finance-committee members up the learning curve without patronizing anyone.
Governance, planning, and financial literacy, on the same page.
We attend finance-committee meetings, prepare the packet that goes to the full board, and coach the directors who joined for the mission but were handed the finance file. In a leadership transition, we hold the institutional finance memory until the next permanent hire is seated.
Ideal for
Nonprofits seeking stronger board and finance relationships and clearer executive-level financial reporting.
What lands on the finance committee's table.
Board-ready reporting
Executive summaries and packets your directors will actually read.
Executive guidance
Financial coaching for the CEO or Executive Director between board meetings.
Strategic planning
A finance partner at the strategy table, not just the audit table.
Board literacy
Directors leave knowing how to read the packet, not just receive it.
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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.