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Fractional CFO pricing and engagement tiers

Four ways to work with us.

Most clubs come to us in one of four situations. Find yours below — the diagnostic will confirm it.

Platform

From $600per month

Our portals, templates, and best-practices library for your team. CO.O for your GM, CF.O for your finance staff, monthly office hours available.

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Stewardship

From $2,500per month

Everything in Platform plus monthly close review, quarterly board package, and budget season support. For clubs with a strong controller who wants a CFO in their corner.

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A 6–12 month rebuild of your finance function: reconciliations current, close documented, budget and cash flow live, audit-ready — and a bound operations manual on your controller's desk. An upfront implementation fee plus implementation hours, then ongoing monthly support once the system is live. Written exit criteria.

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Fractional CFO

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We run the finance function. Board reporting, budget architecture, capital planning, audit season — a full CFO office at a fraction of the cost.

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The ongoing tiers — Platform, Stewardship and Fractional CFO — are a flat monthly fee tied to a written scope with no hourly meter on conversations, banded to your club's operating revenue. The Reset is scoped separately: an upfront implementation fee, implementation work billed hourly against an agreed estimate, then an ongoing monthly support level once the rebuild is live.

Pricing patterns worth watching for.

Hourly billing on an ongoing function

Finance leadership is a standing obligation. An hourly meter discourages the phone call that would have prevented the problem, which is the opposite of what you are buying.

A CFO rate for controller work

Some firms price bookkeeping and close production at CFO rates. If the deliverable is a clean close rather than a decision, controller-level pricing should apply.

No pricing published anywhere

Every engagement is scoped, but a practice that cannot describe its typical range on a first call is usually pricing to what it thinks you can pay.

Cheap engagements that are actually offshore bookkeeping

Under roughly $2,000 per month, you are almost never buying CFO judgment. That can be the right purchase — just know which one you are making.

How Visions Alliance prices.

Fixed monthly fee against a written scope — no hourly meter on conversations
Cleanup and catch-up quoted separately and up front, never absorbed silently
Project work (capital plans, exit preparation, controls rebuilds) priced fixed-fee
Range discussed on the first call, before either side invests time
No long lock-in — the engagement should survive on results, not on contract terms

Frequently asked

Cost questions we hear most.

Most outsourced or fractional CFO engagements run $3,000 to $12,000 per month depending on scope, reporting audience, and cadence. Light review-and-report engagements sit at the bottom of that range; full CFO coverage with board or lender reporting sits at the top.

Usually, yes. A full-time CFO typically costs $260,000 to $450,000 all-in once bonus, benefits, and payroll taxes are included. A fractional engagement delivers the same seniority for the portion of the week you actually need it, which for most businesses under roughly $30 million in revenue is the better economic fit.

An outsourced controller generally runs $2,000 to $5,000 per month and owns the close and the accuracy of the numbers. A fractional CFO costs more because the deliverable is the decision — forecast, capital strategy, pricing, and board or lender credibility.

Only where cleanup is genuinely required. If the close is current and the chart of accounts is sound, the monthly fee starts immediately. If it is not, we quote the remediation as a defined project rather than stretching it across the retainer.

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