Six-Figure Decisions on Gut Feel
Real estate and construction, hospitality groups, trade and logistics, healthcare practices, a growing startup scene — different industries, same pattern: revenue scales quickly, complexity scales faster, and the owner ends up making six-figure decisions while the financials run a month behind.
Hiring a Miami CFO, a controller, and a bookkeeper is three salaries and three sets of benefits. So the finance function ends up split between an office manager, an outside tax preparer, and the owner’s Sunday nights.

M.S. Taxation, University of Miami
A fractional model replaces that patchwork with one accountable person. I’m David Lopez, CPA — M.S. in Taxation from the University of Miami, former CFO of Saxon, a Xerox company. If you have been weighing up a fractional CFO in Miami against another national bookkeeping platform, the difference is judgment — and judgment needs someone accountable.
A CFO Who Knows Miami.
Not a Dashboard That Doesn’t.
There’s no shortage of national online bookkeeping platforms. What they can’t do is judgment — and judgment improves dramatically when your CFO knows the market you operate in.
Miami FAQs
Your First 90 Days With a Fractional CFO in Miami
Engagements open with a free thirty-minute discovery call, and most clients are fully onboarded within a week. Here is what the first quarter actually looks like.
See what a fractional CFO costs, compare the full scope of services, or read how I work through real numbers in the Think Like a CFO case library.