Insights & Perspectives
Short essays on stewardship, governance, and the strategic finance decisions facing clubs, hospitality businesses, and growing companies.
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In a market where resorts grew profit and midscale properties contracted, a portfolio-level P&L can average a failing property out of sight. The three reporting standards a multi-property hospitality group needs before the annual review — not after.
Every guarantee you signed was reasonable on its own. Added together, many operators have personally guaranteed several times their net worth — and nobody is tracking it. Here's how to inventory the exposure and negotiate it down.
An outsourced CFO won't cook, host, or fix your POS — so what does one actually do for a restaurant group or hotel, and when is the money better spent on a controller? A working answer from inside the engagements.
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.
You know something is wrong with your finances but not what to call it. Here is how to diagnose the actual problem — close process, controls, cash, or strategy — and route it to the right level of help.
What a fractional CFO for restaurant groups really owns across 3-40 units, the cost against a full-time hire, and the honest list of when not to hire one.
Multi-unit restaurant financial reporting your operators will use: a standard chart of accounts, four-wall P&L, and a stack you build in one budget cycle.
Restaurant prime cost benchmark ranges by service model, what really belongs in the formula, and why a healthy group average is hiding your underwater unit.
The restaurant unit economics pro forma to build before you sign an LOI: full capital stack, bottom-up revenue, occupancy ratio, and cash-on-cash math.
Profitable on paper, short on cash? How to build a 13 week cash flow forecast a restaurant group can actually run weekly, and when you can skip it entirely.
What a fractional CFO for hotel management companies owns: fee economics, owner reporting, the above-property cost model. Plus cost math and when to skip it.
The USALI 12th edition took effect January 1, 2026. What actually changed, what it breaks in your month-end close, and how to brief owners before they ask.
