The Average CFO Salary (2025) + 27 Key CFO Interview Questions
What’s the average Chief Financial Officer (CFO) salary in the United States in 2025? Well, the typical CFO salary depends on the size of your business and whether your business is located in Keya Paha, Nebraska (lowest salary) or San Francisco, California (highest salary) and what CFO professional services you require. We’ll give some specific numbers below, […]
How To Make An Invoice: 5 Tips to Get Paid Faster
All business owners want to receive prompt payment. But many small business owners don’t realize their billing process may generate invoices lacking the five elements that facilitate quick payments. Here’s how to make an invoice that encourages customers to pay faster.
2 SaaS Metrics Every Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Firm Must Master
Let’s face it: As the CEO or leader of a growing Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business, you have your hands full. Whether you’re busy acquiring customers, onboarding new customers, retaining existing customers, hiring to meet anticipated demand, managing your board or striving to keep investors happy, chances are good you’re managing an ever-growing – and increasingly challenging […]
Why Excel SaaS Financial Models Stink and What to do About it
Spreadsheet financial models for SaaS companies stink, whether built in Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets. There, we’ve said it. That doesn’t mean that spreadsheet models don’t provide some value in the very beginning stages of a SaaS business or that the talented people who created them are bad at what they do. A targeted Google […]
33 SaaS CFO Interview Questions (and Answers to Look For)
Your SaaS firm is growing, and it’s time to hire a new CFO or to explore outsourced CFO services. In both cases, generic interview questions for a CFO just won’t cut it. To find financial leadership that’s as unique as your SaaS company’s financial strategy, you’ll need to ask targeted questions across four vital areas: […]
5 Greatest Benefits of Outsourced CFO Business Advisory Services
Sometimes for business owners, pushing your business into growth mode feels like being stuck in the mud. You think you’re gaining traction but suddenly you find yourself sliding right back into the muck.
Does Your Firm Need a SaaS Accountant, Controller, or CFO?
As your SaaS company evolves from an early stage startup and reaches key milestones, your finance and accounting inevitably need to change. Leveling up to a new stage of growth can be the right time for most SaaS companies to assess those needs – whether you’ve just achieved product-market fit, have established a repeatable […]
Essential SaaS CFO Duties for Each Stage of Growth
Your SaaS company is growing, and each stage brings new finance and accounting (F&A) challenges. As your focus shifts from achieving product/market fit, to building a repeatable sales process, to scaling the business, F&A roles and responsibilities must evolve. Each of these stages highlight the need for experienced financial leadership in the form of a SaaS […]
3 Ways to Calculate Churn (and Why) | SaaS Metrics Playbook
As the founder, CEO, or key stakeholder of a SaaS business, you need a clear picture of the day-to-day health of your business. In theory, SaaS metrics can satisfy this need with basic formulas for calculating a variety of performance data. In practice, however, there’s much more skill required to surface the right data, the […]
How CFO Services Solve Financial Challenges For Nonprofit Organizations
Raise your hand if you’re a nonprofit executive director (or you serve on a nonprofit board) and have a long list of mission-advancing ideas but scarce resources to make them a reality. Keep it in the air if your board has limited financial information upon which to base its guidance/counsel. Whether you sheepishly glanced around the room to […]