For years, nonprofit Executive Directors have chased a myth: the rockstar employee.

You know the profile. It’s the mythical Senior Accountant or Finance Director who lives on coffee, works 60 hours a week, and single-handedly carries the entire weight of your organization's compliance on their back. They are the first to arrive, the last to leave, and they possess an almost supernatural tolerance for messy data, convoluted federal grant tracking, and ever-shifting board requirements.

It feels like a classic binary choice. But after watching a lot of nonprofits navigate this transition, I’ve noticed that rushing to either extreme tends to create the exact problems organizations are trying to avoid.

If you’re trying to decide which route to take, here what I’ve seen actually happens behind the scenes with both models, the middle ground a lot of folks overlook, and how to protect your organization no matter which path you choose.

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A fractional CFO can help transform a nonprofits impact from good to great.

PODCAST: How do you find the right accountant? The right accounting software? How about succession planning and fraud prevention?

PODCAST: Aicila Lewis interviewed me for the BiCurean Podcast. We covered a variety of topics, including making financial reports inclusive and what a Fractional CFO does.

What do small nonprofits need to know about finance and accounting? It got to appear on the Everything Nonprofit Podcast where we address questions like what is the chart of accounts, making engaging financial reports, and making difficult budget decisions.