About

Our approach

Books you can read. Detail a lender can check.

Commerce Finance is a fictional practice used to demonstrate this template. It is built for brands whose books balance but can’t yet say where the margin went.

About

Our approach

Books you can read. Detail a lender can check.

Commerce Finance is a fictional practice used to demonstrate this template. It is built for brands whose books balance but can’t yet say where the margin went.

Rows of white archive boxes on wooden shelves

We start with how the money moves

We look beyond a storefront screenshot or a revenue headline. How orders, payouts, stock and supplier payments move through the business shapes the finance work.

That map sets the scope and the fee: we price the handoffs you actually have, not a package that hides them.

Reports you can act on in a meeting

Every pack separates three things: figures ready to use, assumptions still in play and exceptions that need an owner.

The review then covers what moved, what the team is deciding and which missing figure would change the answer.

Principles

On every file

Four rules we don’t bend

Principles

On every file

Four rules we don’t bend

No mystery figures

Every figure says what it includes before anyone decides on it.

Assumptions in writing

Keep timing, scope and definitions next to the figures they affect.

A name on each item

Give each input, exception and follow-up a named responsibility.

A calendar we can keep

Close dates the people doing the work can actually hit.

On your file

Sample team

The people on your file

A sample team for a fictional practice. Replace the portraits, names and roles with your own, and add qualifications or affiliations only when you have permission and evidence.

On your file

Sample team

The people on your file

A sample team for a fictional practice. Replace the portraits, names and roles with your own, and add qualifications or affiliations only when you have permission and evidence.

Sample portrait for Elena Marsh

Elena Marsh

Engagement lead

Owns the scope, the review agenda and your questions.

Sample portrait for Tom Becker

Tom Becker

Close owner

Runs the monthly close, the checklist and the open items.

Sample portrait for James Whitlow

James Whitlow

Fractional CFO

Leads the monthly review and the decisions on cash and stock.

Sample team. Names and portraits are placeholders for a fictional practice; no professional credentials are claimed.

Shopify has a dashboard. Your business needs a close.

Tell us how the month ends today. We’ll show you what a real close would change.

Shopify has a dashboard. Your business needs a close.

Tell us how the month ends today. We’ll show you what a real close would change.

Shopify has a dashboard. Your business needs a close.

Tell us how the month ends today. We’ll show you what a real close would change.

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