Fractional CFO leadership for mission-driven boards.
Executive-level financial oversight for nonprofits without the cost of a full-time hire. Budgeting, forecasting, cash flow, audit preparation, and board-ready analysis, delivered by a Consulting CFO with 15+ years spent inside nonprofit finance seats.
A CFO who translates finance for the room your board sits in.
The engagement starts by reading the last three board packets and the last audit. From there, we own the finance seat: monthly close, cash forecasting, funder reporting, and the board-committee materials that go out the week before every meeting. When your restricted funds tighten or a program grows faster than the general ledger, we say so early, in language your directors can act on.
Ideal for
Nonprofits expanding programs, preparing for audits or major funding, navigating leadership changes, or needing executive financial guidance without permanent staffing.
What lands on your board table.
Financial oversight
Budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management the board can trust.
Board-ready analysis
Executive summaries for strategic planning, delivered ahead of the meeting.
Audit preparation
Compliance support and risk management ahead of the deadline, not on it.
Mission-aligned strategy
Long-term sustainability planning that keeps your mission in the driver's seat.
Program collaboration
Resource allocation planned alongside the people who actually run the programs.
Related services.
Fractional COO
Operational systems, grant portfolios, and HR / IT modernization for growing nonprofits.
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Board-ready reporting, executive-team financial guidance, and board financial literacy.
See Executive & Board CollaborationSix named nonprofit 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.