Hacking CPA | Financial Clarity for Owner-Operators
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The owner-operator gap

Your books can be closed and your questions still unanswered.

Compliance tells you what happened. Running the business requires knowing what it means, what happens next, and which decision your cash can support.

01 / Cash

Profit is up. Cash is not.

Receivables, debt principal, equipment, tax payments, and owner draws can absorb profit before it ever reaches the bank.

02 / Margin

Revenue grows, but the payoff does not.

Without profit by service line, customer, or job, the work keeping everyone busy may be the work suppressing margin.

03 / Tax

Taxes arrive as an event.

Good records and current forecasts make estimated payments and year-end planning part of the operating rhythm instead of a surprise.

04 / Decisions

Every big move feels like a guess.

Hiring, pricing, expansion, and equipment decisions need scenarios tied to real accounts—not instinct alone.

What we fix

Three things every owner wants — and most never get.

You don't need more reports. You need a system that tells the truth, and a CPA who reads it with you.

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Cash flow forecasting

Cash visibility

A 13-week cash model wired into your real accounts, so runway, payroll cushion and deployable cash are never a guess.

  • Rolling 13-week forecast
  • Owner vs. operating cash
  • Weekly variance review
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Job & segment profitability

Profit clarity

We rebuild your income statement by service line, customer or job, so you can see what's funding the business and what's eating it.

  • Profit-by-segment view
  • Margin & contribution analysis
  • Pricing decision support
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Virtual CFO

Decision confidence

Can you afford the hire? The expansion? The equipment? We model it against your real numbers so you decide with conviction.

  • Hire & expansion models
  • Tax-positioned scenarios
  • Monthly CFO review

Why Hacking CPA

More than bookkeeping. A system you can run the business on.

Bookkeeping records what already happened. We rebuild your numbers so they tell you what to do next, and a CPA reads them with you every month.

Typical bookkeeping
Hacking CPA Bookkeeping plus a CPA in your corner
What you get
−Transactions recorded each month
✓Books cleaned up, then rebuilt into a system around your decisions
Who you work with
−A rotating bookkeeper
✓Bruce Hacking, CPA, directly. No handoffs.
How often you talk
−Mostly when something is due
✓A monthly CFO review, with big hires and purchases modeled before you commit
Cash
−Last month's bank balance
✓A rolling 13-week cash forecast built from your real accounts
Profit
−One overall income statement
✓Profit by service line, customer or job
Taxes
−Sorted out at the deadline
✓Books tax-ready year round, with exposure flagged early
Schedule a strategy call 30 minutes, free, with Bruce

Based on common bookkeeping-only services. Every firm is different.

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