Fractional CFO Services in Los Angeles

CFO services can include budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, scenario analysis, profitability analysis, management or board reporting, and strategic financial guidance. Depending on the engagement, support may also cover technical accounting, transaction accounting, financial close, internal controls, reporting modernization, audit readiness, or interim accounting leadership. Stratum Advisory Partners scopes the work around the company’s needs, complexity, timing, and required level of support.

A fractional CFO provides senior financial leadership on an outsourced or part-time basis, helping management understand performance, plan for cash needs, evaluate scenarios, improve reporting, and make informed operating decisions. The role may also involve coordinating with accounting teams, auditors, valuation specialists, lenders, investors, or boards. The exact responsibilities are determined by the company’s priorities and the scope of the engagement.

Fractional CFO services can help established, founder-led, investor-backed, public, private-equity-backed, and growth-stage companies that need stronger financial direction without immediately adding a full-time senior finance executive. Common needs include unreliable forecasts, limited cash visibility, complex reporting, growth-related finance challenges, new lender or investor expectations, transaction activity, or accounting issues that require expertise beyond the internal team.

Yes. Support can include accounting and financial reporting for acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, and ownership changes. Relevant work may involve purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, coordination with valuation specialists, post-acquisition accounting, and reporting integration. The engagement can also address related documentation and execution needs so management and the finance team have clearer support during a complex transaction.

Yes. Stratum Advisory Partners can assess and strengthen financial close processes, reconciliations, accounting policies, documentation, internal controls, management reporting, and finance workflows. Support may include remediation of control deficiencies or material weaknesses, improving dashboards, and introducing appropriate automation. The work is designed around the current finance function and can build on existing accounting systems where feasible.

Technical accounting advisory can address complex matters such as revenue recognition, debt and equity transactions, stock-based compensation, leases, business combinations, and impairment. The objective is to develop clear, supportable accounting conclusions and documentation that management can use in reporting and discussions with auditors or other advisers. Scope is tailored to the accounting question and surrounding business circumstances.

Yes. Interim CAO and controller leadership can support organizations during executive vacancies, leadership transitions, transactions, or periods of increased demand. Responsibilities may include oversight of financial close, reporting, audit preparation, accounting-team execution, and continuity of day-to-day finance leadership. Stratum Advisory Partners works alongside management to maintain progress while the organization addresses its longer-term leadership needs.

Engagements are custom-scoped, and fees are determined after discussing the scope, complexity, timing, and level of support required. This approach allows the work to reflect the company’s actual priorities, whether it needs ongoing strategic finance guidance, a focused accounting project, transaction support, reporting improvement, or interim leadership. A discussion is the appropriate starting point for defining the engagement.