
Every P&L Tells a Story About the Business Owner's Behavior. Here's How to Read It.
Every Profit and Loss statement tells a story about the business owner’s behavior. From impulsive spending to gut-driven decisions, your P&L highlights financial patterns that shape your company’s growth. Learn how a Fractional CFO can turn these insights into smarter strategies and sustainable profits.

From Numbers to Business Therapist: The Real CFO Role
A Fractional CFO is more than a number-cruncher. They provide financial strategy, accountability, and personal support that helps entrepreneurs overcome challenges, build trust, and focus on long-term business growth.

Why Customer Lifetime Value Is the Hidden Key to Business Growth
Discover how improving Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) can drive sustainable growth, boost revenue without more marketing spend, and help you build a stronger business model.

The 4X Price Increase That Changed Everything
Learn how raising prices by 4X improved client relationships, elevated services from bookkeeping to strategic financial guidance, and helped build a stronger, more profitable business.

Expert Workshop: Is Your Business Built to Sell Or Just Built Around You?
Learn why profitability isn’t enough to make your business sellable. This workshop replay with Michelle Scribner reveals the key drivers of business value, the risks that reduce valuation, and how to build a company that thrives without you.

Are You Ready to Hire? Start with This Overlooked Metric
Discover why customer lifetime value (CLV) matters when deciding to hire, how to calculate it, and ways to increase it for long-term business growth and stability.

Are Your Employees’ Hours Profitable?
For service-based businesses, labor is often your biggest cost and your biggest opportunity. Tracking your Employee Capacity Rate shows how much of your team’s time is billable and tied directly to revenue. Learn how to calculate it, why it matters, and how small changes can boost your profits without adding labor costs.

Breaking Free from the Bookkeeping Price Trap
Discover how to move beyond low-fee bookkeeping, reposition your services, and build a sustainable practice. Michelle Scribner shares how she broke free from the bookkeeping price trap and elevated her role to trusted advisor.

Expert Workshop: Am I Ready to Hire My Next Employee?
Hiring is one of the most important financial decisions a small business owner makes. In this workshop recap, we share how to know when you’re ready to hire, how much you can afford, the difference between employees and contractors, and the leadership essentials that make new hires successful for the long term.

How to Raise Your Prices Without Losing Loyal Clients
Discover how to raise your prices without losing loyal clients. This guide shares 3 proven strategies to communicate value, give notice, and update rates while keeping trust strong.

Getting naked with your numbers: A bookkeeper's truth about business fear and the habits that actually create financial clarity
In this honest conversation with Hugh Carnahan, Michelle Scribner shares the biggest reason business owners fear their numbers—and how that fear quietly erodes confidence, profit, and peace of mind. Learn the truth about the “one bucket” trap, why your Amazon bill matters more than you think, and how four simple bank accounts can change everything.

Expert Workshop: Are My Prices Right?
Pricing can feel like a guessing game—but it doesn’t have to be. In our June workshop, Michelle Scribner walked through a 3-part framework for pricing smarter: strategic alignment, buyer psychology, and cost-based sustainability. Learn how to charge what you're worth—without overthinking it.

Why You Should Be Tracking Employee Retention Rate
Discover why tracking your employee retention rate matters, how to calculate it, and how this metric can help you cut costs, improve efficiency, and hire with confidence.

Expert Workshop: Mid-Year Financial Check-In – How to Course-Correct with Confidence
What would happen if you stopped relying on hope and started making decisions based on your actual numbers? In our May workshop, Michelle Scribner guided business owners through a real-time mid-year financial review—using Profit First and four key views of your numbers to spark smart, strategic adjustments for the rest of the year.

Why more sales don’t always mean more profit: Understanding customer acquisition cost (CAC)
More sales don’t always mean more profit. If you’re not tracking your customer acquisition cost (CAC), you might be spending more to land a customer than you actually earn from them. Learn how to calculate your CAC, spot when it’s hurting your margins, and take steps to grow revenue profitably.

Why Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) Should Drive Your Strategy
Many firms focus on client acquisition, but improving Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) can deliver stronger growth. Discover how to calculate and increase CLV through retention strategies, bundled services, and referral programs.

Expert Workshop: See It Before It Hits and Why Cash Flow Forecasting Matters for Every Business Owner
Feeling like you're always reacting to your numbers instead of planning ahead? In April’s workshop, we broke down how to use cash flow forecasting and Profit First to build financial clarity. Learn how a 12-month rolling forecast helps you anticipate cash gaps, make better decisions, and take the guesswork out of your business finances.

Revenue per employee: A quick metric with big insight
Discover how to use revenue per employee to assess team efficiency, identify staffing needs, and improve profitability without overworking your team.

When Small Business Owners Ask "When Can I Hire?" - How to Know If You Can Afford Your Next Hire
"When can I afford to hire?" It’s the question small business owners lose sleep over. In this post, Michelle Scribner shares a clear Profit First hiring strategy—how to calculate when you're truly ready, the 35% rule, and why your values matter as much as your numbers.

How to Break Out of a Revenue Plateau with One Simple Metric
Your business is growing, but revenue isn’t moving the way you expect. Tracking your Revenue Growth Rate (RGR) can reveal why and help you turn stalled growth into steady momentum.