13-week cash flow planning
Forecast payroll, vendor payments, debt, taxes, and seasonal swings so upcoming pressure is visible before it reaches the bank account.
Fractional CFO for restaurants
Financial guidance built around how restaurants operate.
Accounting Forward provides CPA-led fractional CFO services to restaurants nationwide. We connect accurate books, cash flow, budgets, and location-level performance to the decisions owners need to make.
The questions behind the numbers
A report is useful when it helps you decide what to do next.
Can we afford the next location?
Model the cash requirement, operating ramp, financing, and effect on the existing business before you commit.
Why is profit not turning into cash?
Connect working capital, debt, distributions, capital spending, and timing so the bank balance makes sense.
Which location needs attention?
Separate group performance into location-level drivers and identify where food cost, labor, or overhead moved.
What can we change now?
Turn financial results into practical conversations about staffing, pricing, purchasing, cash, and growth.
What the work includes
Planning and decision support grounded in dependable accounting.
Budgets and forecasts
Build a practical financial plan, compare actual results, and update assumptions as sales, labor, food cost, and growth plans change.
Scenario and expansion modeling
Evaluate break-even points, financing needs, new locations, and other major decisions with the costs and risks made explicit.
Why restaurant-specific matters
CFO advice is only as good as its operating context.
Prime cost stays central
Food, beverage, and labor are reviewed as operating drivers, not buried as lines in a generic monthly package.
Location detail stays visible
For multi-unit groups, consolidated results are paired with location-level reporting so one store cannot hide inside the total.
The accounting and advice connect
The same restaurant-focused team supports the books, reporting, forecasts, and strategy conversations.
13-Week Cash Forecast Rolling view
Payroll, vendor payments, debt, taxes, and expected receipts viewed together.
When fractional CFO support fits
More decision support than bookkeeping, without hiring a full internal finance team.
Your books are closed, but the decisions are still yours alone.
You need someone who can explain the implications and help pressure-test the next move.
Growth has made cash and reporting harder to manage.
More locations, entities, debt, and managers create financial questions that a basic monthly package does not answer.
You need a finance function that can grow with the operation.
Accounting, reporting, planning, and guidance need to operate as one system instead of disconnected projects.
Bring the decision you are wrestling with.
Tell us where the books stand and what you are trying to solve. We will tell you plainly whether fractional CFO support is the right fit.
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