A free written verdict on your finance function within 24 hours. Then a fixed-fee fix, an ongoing CFO on a monthly fee, or nothing. And bookkeeping done to the same standard, with your first month free.
Every call and every piece of work by Liam Collier, fractional CFO, ex-BDO business advisory.
A fractional CFO for the decisions, and bookkeeping for the records underneath them. Both done by the same working CFO, to the same standard.
A twenty minute call, then a free written verdict on your finance function within 24 hours: where it’s costing you money, what to fix, and what each fix is worth.
Fixed-fee Xero bookkeeping, reconciled weekly and closed by the 5th, with a written note on your numbers from a working fractional CFO.
The books are behind, or you don’t trust them.
Start with bookkeeping. Clean, current books come first, and the monthly note tells you what they mean.
See bookkeepingThe books are fine, but you can’t see margin, cash or what’s coming.
That’s the CFO job. Book the twenty minutes and get the verdict, free.
Book 20 minutesOne specific problem: a forecast, a budget, a lender asking for numbers.
A one-off CFO project, quoted as a fixed fee once the verdict has named it.
See CFO projectsStill not sure.
Book the twenty minutes and the verdict will say. Or start with bookkeeping: your first month is free.
Book 20 minutesPick your tier and invite Liam to your Xero file. No card needed.
The file is cleaned up back to 1 July, every transaction coded, feeds reconciled.
Your first CFO note on your numbers. Then reconciled every week, and closed by the 5th with your note.
Tell me what the business does and what’s bothering you about the numbers. Phone or video.
The diagnosis you’d normally pay a CFO for, in writing, before you pay anything.
Do nothing, hand the report to someone else, or have me fix it: a one-off build for a fixed fee, or ongoing on a monthly fee. The report is yours either way.
I’m Liam Collier, a fractional CFO to owner-run businesses. Before that, business advisory at BDO, then running the finance function of a 130-person Melbourne law firm: cash, management reporting, profitability, owner decision support. I completed the CA program, then chose commercial finance over compliance work. The person you speak to on the first call is the person who does the work, on the CFO side and on the books.
“Liam rebuilt our budget from the bottom up and restructured the ledger so we could actually see delivery margins and where payroll was really going… The reporting was genuinely useful: true cash position after obligations, utilisation by consultant, and straight commentary on what needed a decision each month. Always delivered on time, no fuss, and having clean numbers made life easier when the business changed hands.”
Two things. Fractional CFO work for owner-run businesses: a free written verdict on your finance function, then a fixed-fee project or an ongoing CFO on a monthly fee. And fixed-fee Xero bookkeeping, first month free, with a monthly note on your numbers from the same CFO.
It’s how I find clients worth working with, and it costs me a few hours to be useful to you. If the verdict shows work worth doing, the walkthrough call ends with a fixed quote. If it doesn’t, I say so in writing. Either way the report is yours.
Keep them. They handle compliance and year end, and they should. This is the work that sits around them: books kept right every week, and the forward numbers, margin and cash you run the business on. If you’re the accountant, here’s how referrals work.
The call and the verdict are free. A one-off CFO project is a fixed fee, quoted once the verdict has named the work, and an ongoing CFO is a monthly fee with no lock-in. See how the fractional CFO is priced. Bookkeeping is a fixed monthly fee by turnover, and your first month is free. See bookkeeping prices.
Remotely, with owner-run businesses in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Calls are by phone or video, and your data stays in your own accounting system. How it’s handled is on the security page.
Yes. They’re different names for the same role: CFO-level work for a business that doesn’t need a full-time CFO. Here it starts with a free written verdict, then a fixed fee for a one-off project, or an ongoing fractional CFO on a monthly fee.
I do. Every call, every verdict, every month end and every monthly note. Not a team you never meet, and not someone learning on your file.
Free. A written verdict on your finance function within 24 hours. Yours to keep whatever you decide.
Need the books done first? Bookkeeping, first month free, no card needed. See bookkeeping
Your first month is free, including cleanup back to 1 July within 48 hours of your invite. No card needed. Then a fixed monthly fee, a close every month and a monthly CFO note on your numbers. Signed up in two minutes, no sales call.
Need more than the books? See the fractional CFO service