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Interim Controller Services: What the Role Actually Does, What It Costs, and How to Hand Off

Fractional CFO Education

Interim Controller Services: What the Role Actually Does, What It Costs, and How to Hand Off

Your controller resigned, the audit starts in five weeks, and nobody else has ever opened the general ledger. Here is what an interim controller does day to day, what the engagement costs hourly and monthly, how long it runs, and how to hand the seat to a permanent hire.

August 20269 min read
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Your Controller Quit: The First 48 Hours, the Overlap, and the Staffing Call

Finance Leadership

Your Controller Quit: The First 48 Hours, the Overlap, and the Staffing Call

The notice email arrives on a Friday afternoon and nobody else knows how the close works. Here is the first-48-hours checklist, what to extract while they are still there, the risks that surface at day 30, and how to decide who runs the books next.

August 20269 min read
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