If you are running a £1M+ business and your “Finance Function” consists of looking at a Profit & Loss statement for last month, you are driving a supercar while staring fixedly at the rear-view mirror. It is a recipe for a crash. In the first two parts of this series, we looked at building your…
In last week’s WrightCFO News, we spoke about architecture. We established that if you want to scale to £5M, you cannot do it on a £1M chassis. Today, we address the most seductive lie in business: “We’ll fix the margins once we have the scale.” In my work as a Fractional CFO in the UK,…
Excel AI for finance is one of the most powerful tools your business can leverage—but only if you stop using it for trivial calculations and start using it to stress-test your strategy. A scaling business, typically those with £1M- £10M in annual revenue, is sat on a strategic superpower but uses it for triviality. It’s…
The greatest risk in finance today isn’t avoiding AI; it’s blindly trusting it. The conversation around Artificial Intelligence in finance has finally matured. It is no longer a question of if it will change the CFO function, but how. For scaling businesses in the £1M–£10M revenue bracket—particularly in the volatile tech, media, and creative sectors—AI…
I recently spent an insightful couple of days at Accountex London, and one thing was abundantly clear: Artificial Intelligence in the finance and accounting world has truly come of age. The buzz was palpable, with what felt like every other stand showcasing AI-powered tools and software. It’s evident that AI is rapidly moving from a…