Winnipeg · Fractional Controllership
Most owner-operated businesses doing $1M to $10M are flying a little blind: unclear margins, cash surprises, decisions made on gut feel. A fractional controller sits inside your numbers and closes the gap between what you earn and what you keep. Fifteen years of controller experience, one CPA, working directly with you.
Start with a fixed-fee Profitability Diagnostic. One time, no commitment.
The gap nobody is watching
You can have your best sales month ever and still have the bank calling on a Friday. You can be booked solid for six months and still watch cash get tight. Most businesses your size have nobody whose job is to see that coming.
A bookkeeper records what already happened, moving fast across a stack of clients. That work matters, but it looks backward at the ledger. It is not built to look up and tell you what is coming, where your margins are leaking, or whether you can make payroll after the next equipment purchase.
Your tax accountant sees you once a year, looking backward at what is already done, to file a return. By the time a problem shows up there, it has already happened. That is the right role for tax. It is not the role that keeps you ahead of your cash.
What a controller does
In businesses above a certain size there is a person called a Controller whose entire job is to stand between the owner and a cash problem, and to see it coming while it is still on the horizon. Advantage Books is that role, fractionally, for businesses that need it but cannot justify a full-time hire.
A fixed-fee, one-time look inside your numbers. I tell you exactly where you are bleeding margin and where the upside is. Low commitment, immediate value, and the natural way to find out whether an ongoing engagement makes sense for both of us.
A one-page dashboard you actually read, a rolling thirteen-week cash view, quarterly cost-structure reviews, and an annual profitability audit by revenue stream. The clarity a $50M company gets from its controller, sized for yours.
Most owners can tell me their best month. Very few can tell me which of their service lines is subsidizing the other two. That gap is almost always worth more than the fee. Here is how I find it.
Experience Counts
If not, that is the conversation. The first one is free, and it ends with a plain answer about whether this is a fit.
