There is a recurring death rattle we hear in the offices of £1M–£10M revenue businesses. It doesn’t sound like an alarm; it sounds like the quiet, rhythmic tapping of a spreadsheet being updated. If you are currently paying a monthly retainer for “financial management,” ask yourself a brutal question: are you paying for a partner…
There’s a mistake hiding inside the fractional CFO conversation — and it starts the moment you frame it as a hire. You’ve scaled past £1M. You know your finance function isn’t built for what comes next. And you’re weighing up a permanent Finance Director against a “fractional” option. The problem is that both options get…
The Great Boomer Sell-off: Will your exit be a headline or a footnote? I’ve spent a career writing best-sellers about the birth of startups, but today, we need to talk about the “death” of ownership. We are currently witnessing a “Silver Tsunami” across the UK, and frankly, most founders are paddling in the wrong direction….
As a frequent writer on entrepreneurship, I spend a lot of time looking at the “macro”—the big numbers, the global shifts, the “tectonic plates” of the economy. But as a Fractional CFO and Founder of WrightCFO, I am also working with CEOs, in the “micro” every single day. Right now, those two worlds are colliding…
For over 500 years, the media agencies and advertising industries have lived under the “Gutenberg Rule.“ This rule is named after the inventor of the printing press. The rule was simple: Information is expensive to produce and even harder to distribute. Because it was hard, you needed institutions. You needed big agencies with massive teams…
The UK-Nigeria trade corridor has become one of the most significant economic relationships of the decade — and if you’re still viewing it through the lens of traditional “aid,” you are missing the most important capital realignment of our time. Last week, London was the engine room for a massive economic handshake. From the President…
There is a specific, quiet crisis that hits social purpose or NFP organisations when they move past the early growth phase. You’ve proven the concept. You’ve secured the contracts. You’ve scaled to £5M, perhaps £8M. And then, the handbrake goes on. It isn’t a lack of vision. Usually, it’s because the organisation is trying to…
Financial Planning or otherwise- It’s been a sobering morning. Between the headlines of conflict and the immediate shiver through the global markets, it is hard not to feel a sense of déjà vu. For the UK business owner in the £1M–£10M bracket, the “geopolitical” just became very “personal.” As I write this, oil is flirting…
We found £300,000 hiding in the gaps between departments In the advertising world, everything depends on clear communication. Yet, we recently stepped into a London agency where the internal lines had gone completely silent. While the creative teams were winning high-profile pitches, the finance department was struggling to keep its head above water—fighting to meet…
Not every business becomes a unicorn. But every business deserves a CFO who respects the runway. The Mystery: An ambitious EdTech startup in London found themselves in the “Danger Zone.” They weren’t quite pre-revenue, but they were perilously close. They needed to raise investment, they needed a robust business plan, and they needed a bookkeeper….