Insights & Perspectives
Short essays on stewardship, governance, and the strategic finance decisions facing clubs, hospitality-focused businesses, and the growing businesses that lead their sectors.
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Most club board packets report dozens of numbers and explain none of them. The financial KPIs that actually predict a country club's health — and how to present them so the board can act.
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General managers are asked to be operators, hospitality leaders, and chief financial strategists at once. How a fractional CFO partnership actually works for a GM — what it covers, what it costs, and where it earns its keep.
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Club accounting is not ordinary business accounting with a golf course attached. Member equity, initiation fees, unrelated business income, and capital reserves all behave differently — and the mistakes are expensive.
Club Management
GM compensation is one of the few board decisions that touches retention, governance credibility, and the club's tax posture at once. A practical framework for structuring it defensibly.
Club Management
A board packet is a governance instrument, not an accounting deliverable. What belongs in it, what does not, and how GMs can build one that shortens meetings and strengthens trust.
