CFO Command
Your books, explained. Once a month, by a CFO.
CFO Command reads your QuickBooks and tells you what it means — what changed, what's coming, and what to do about it.
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Basics
Cash & Debt
Revenue
Business basics
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What CFO Command does
The same numbers a CFO would pull — without the CFO salary.
CFO Command turns the handful of numbers you already have into a clear picture of where your cash is going, when it runs out, and what to do about it. Here's what's inside.
Command Score & zero-cash date
One number (0–100) that says whether your cash is building or burning — plus the exact date you'd hit zero if nothing changes. It's the first thing a CFO looks at.
13-week cash forecast
A rolling weekly projection of your ending cash balance so you can see a payroll problem or a growth window weeks before it happens — not after.
Scenario planning
Model the decision before you make it: hire a salesperson, raise prices 5%, cut a product line. See how each one moves your runway and zero-cash date.
Industry KPIs & benchmarks
Your margins, days-sales-outstanding, and cash-conversion cycle compared to peers in your industry and revenue band — so 'good' has a real number attached.
Variance analysis
Month-over-month and year-over-year comparison that flags the line items that actually moved the needle, with thresholds you set.
AI CFO memo
A written, board-ready memo on your numbers each month — what changed, what to watch, and the two or three moves a CFO would make.
Built for your industry
Your dashboard wouldn't look generic — and neither do these.
Every industry has different numbers that matter. Here are real sample Advisory dashboards built for a few of them. Yours would be built the same way.
An example of an Advisory dashboard.
Sample data, built to show the shape. Yours is built around your business.
This one shows the 13-week cash forecast.
Thorne & Latham Consulting
Sample company — not a real businessAdvisory dashboard · built by FGS
42 staff
Command Score
Cash on hand
$540,000
Runway
6.8 months
Zero-cash date
About 7 months out
Built for professional services. No off-the-shelf tool tracks these.
Share of paid hours that are billable
61%
Your people are billable 61% of the hours you pay for. Every point back is worth about $38,000 a year.
What you collect per dollar billed
84%
You bill $1.00 and collect $0.84. The gap is write-offs, not clients who never pay.
Work done but not yet invoiced
$412,000
38 days of finished work sitting unbilled — earned cash you haven't asked for yet.
What you actually earn per hour
$217
Your standard rate is $325. You're discounting about a third of it without deciding to.
13-week cash forecast
Payroll, loan payments, owner draws and card payments land on their real dates. Money coming in follows the pattern of when clients have actually paid.
Lowest balance ahead
$235,200
Week 12
Ending balance (week 13)
$303,300
-$236,700 vs today
Heaviest week
$201,900 out
Week 2 — mostly People
Runway
6.8 months
at current burn
What if
Bill the backlog, pay the tax bill, add a senior hire
- •Collect $180,000 of the aged unbilled work — lands week 4
- •Q4 tax payment of $95,000 — goes out week 9
- •Senior consultant from week 6 — $3,300 a week all in
| Week | Income | People | Owner | Debt | Expenses | Net | Ending |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $120,000 | $9,200 | $40,000 | $12,000 | $42,700 | $16,100$16,100 | $556,100$556,100 |
| 2 | $120,000 | $159,200 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900-$81,900 | $474,200$474,200 |
| 3 | $120,000 | $9,200 | $0 | $22,000 | $42,700 | $46,100$46,100 | $520,300$520,300 |
| 4● Collect the backlog +$180,000 | $120,000 | $159,200 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900$98,100 | $438,400$618,400 |
| 5 | $120,000 | $9,200 | $40,000 | $12,000 | $42,700 | $16,100$16,100 | $454,500$634,500 |
| 6 | $120,000 | $159,200$162,500 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900-$85,200 | $372,600$549,300 |
| 7 | $120,000 | $9,200$12,500 | $0 | $22,000 | $42,700 | $46,100$42,800 | $418,700$592,100 |
| 8 | $120,000 | $159,200$162,500 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900-$85,200 | $336,800$506,900 |
| 9● Q4 tax payment −$95,000 | $120,000 | $9,200$12,500 | $40,000 | $12,000 | $42,700 | $16,100-$82,200 | $352,900$424,700 |
| 10 | $120,000 | $159,200$162,500 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900-$85,200 | $271,000$339,500 |
| 11 | $120,000 | $9,200$12,500 | $0 | $22,000 | $42,700 | $46,100$42,800 | $317,100$382,300 |
| 12 | $120,000 | $159,200$162,500 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | -$81,900-$85,200 | $235,200$297,100 |
| 13 | $120,000 | $9,200$12,500 | $0 | $0 | $42,700 | $68,100$64,800 | $303,300$361,900 |
Base — ending balance
$303,300
With this scenario
$361,900
The gap
+$58,600
Lowest point — base $235,200 (week 12) · with scenario $297,100 (week 12)
Hypothetical. Your real forecast is never overwritten — you see both, week by week, plus the gap between them.
Plans & Pricing
Start free with a Command Score, and upgrade whenever you want more history, forecasting, or a real CFO in your corner.
Pulse
See where you stand — free.
- Connect your QuickBooks — free
- Command Score & band — once QuickBooks is connected, updated monthly
- Cash position, runway, and zero-cash date
- What you're owed and how long you wait to get paid
- Plain-English explanations of every number
- (Manual entry also available if you'd rather not connect)
Command
Know what to do about it — and build the dashboard you actually want.
- Everything in Pulse
- Save every snapshot automatically, with score trend over time
- Full dashboard with saved history
- Rolling 13-week cash forecast
- Unlimited scenario planning
- Monthly CFO memo
- Self-serve Dashboard Builder: custom KPI tiles
- Custom formula editor & saved layouts
- Editable alert thresholds
Advisory
The full service — we build it and run it with you.
then $449/mo retainer · $4,490/yr
- Everything in Command
- CFO Build — a CFO meets with you, builds your dashboard, defines your KPIs & benchmarks, and delivers your first memo ($1,995 one-time)
- Monthly email check-in from your CFO
- Monthly CFO update to your dashboard
- Quarterly live review call
- Industry-specific metric library
What changes as you move up
| Feature | Pulse | Command | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| See where you stand | |||
| Command Score, runway & zero-cash date | |||
| What you're owed, and how long you wait to get paid | |||
| Act on it | |||
| 13-week cash forecast | |||
| What-if planning | |||
| Monthly CFO memo | |||
| Saved history & score trend | |||
| We run it with you | |||
| A CFO builds your dashboard and meets with you ($1,995 one-time) | |||
| Quarterly live review call | |||
Advisory includes a one-time $1,995 build fee in addition to the monthly subscription. See the Advisory service terms and our terms of service.
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