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The Gold Coast’s gold standard virtual CFO, at your service
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All the benefits of a CFO at a fraction of the cost
A Chief Financial Officer is practically invaluable to a large company. That’s not true, of course, because the role comes with a hefty salary attached. As a medium-sized business with bold growth ambitions, that price may be unsustainable. Hiring a fractional CEO is a more economical solution, but we understand the anxiety that ‘part-time’ might mean ‘indifferent’. You’ve heard the adage, ‘You get what you pay for’.
Let us relieve your anxiety.
Liston Newton’s veteran virtual CFOs provide Gold Coast businesses with comprehensive and dedicated executive services. We’ll help you maximise our expertise by tying our team to timeframe or project-based initiatives. Whether you need us to plan and execute a new growth strategy or optimise your existing ones, we’ll see the task through to the end.
First, a consultation. Come in for a chat and a coffee, and let’s discuss your challenges and our solutions.
Business hours
Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm
Parking
3h parking at Australia Fair Shopping Centre. Take lifts to level 10.
All the benefits of a CFO at a fraction of the cost
A Chief Financial Officer is practically invaluable to a large company. That’s not true, of course, because the role comes with a hefty salary attached. As a medium-sized business with bold growth ambitions, that price may be unsustainable. Hiring a fractional CEO is a more economical solution, but we understand the anxiety that ‘part-time’ might mean ‘indifferent’. You’ve heard the adage, ‘You get what you pay for’.
Let us relieve your anxiety.
Liston Newton’s veteran virtual CFOs provide Gold Coast businesses with comprehensive and dedicated executive services. We’ll help you maximise our expertise by tying our team to timeframe or project-based initiatives. Whether you need us to plan and execute a new growth strategy or optimise your existing ones, we’ll see the task through to the end.
First, a consultation. Come in for a chat and a coffee, and let’s discuss your challenges and our solutions.
Business hours
Monday to Friday
8am to 5pm
Parking
3h parking at Australia Fair Shopping Centre. Take lifts to level 10.
Virtual CFO services available on the Gold Coast
Our virtual team can manage every responsibility you’d expect an in-house CFO to handle. Better still, your Gold Coast-based team can call upon our national network of financial specialists to draw on the unparalleled depth and breadth of their expertise.
Liston Newton helped us move our accounting over to Xero. Their Accountant managed the set up and training so we felt comfortable with the software. We now have all our processes streamlined which gives us improved visibility of our business performance. This has allowed us to open 2 more stores without a significant increase in administration effort.
Peter Luskan
Pandora
Meet and exceed your highest ambitions with a virtual CFO
Talk to usDistance isn’t a barrier to expertise
It’s natural to have at least a few apprehensions about outsourcing a role as critical as a CFO. Will working digitally impede our access to your internal staff and processes? Does distance slow communication and agility? Could being an outsider limit our investment in your success? No.
Our Gold Coast team offers a mature virtual CFO service. We’ve overcome these challenges before and delivered on our promise of quality.
Partner with us, and our first priority will be to quickly and seamlessly integrate into your current team and processes. From there, we can begin to reorganise, optimise, upgrade and strategise.
Virtual CFO responsibilities
- Business advice
- Cash flow management
- Tax preparation
- Tax compliance
- Strategic business planning
- Financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting
- Financial planning and analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions planning
Learn more about your business with our comprehensive guides
At Liston Newton Advisory, we take pride in helping business owners get more out of their hard work. Our downloadable guides can give you an in-depth look at strategies and technologies that will help your business grow.
- Discover tax strategies and business structures available to you
- Understand and apply new business management technology
- Get in touch with us for information tailored to your business
Get the guides
Meet our Gold Coast virtual CFOs
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Accredited, qualified and laurelled
By consistently delivering exceptional results, we’ve proven time and again just how effective our process can be.
Why choose us
Business experience
Our Gold Coast team has provided CFO services for diverse businesses in various industries.
Long-term client partnerships
Several of our clients have chosen to maintain decades-long partnerships with us. You’ll soon see why.
Full range of services
Our virtual CFOs can call upon the expertise of our accredited accountants, bookkeepers and tech specialists.
Leading industry innovation
As Xero Platinum partners, we can transition your accounting processes onto their exceptional platform.
Gold Coast locals serving Gold Coast locals
Your dedicated Liston Newton virtual CFO isn’t going to be calling in from interstate. We’re based right here. Southport, in fact.
One of the benefits of hiring a virtual CFO is that you can assess potential hires across the country — the globe, even. But as an award-winning local financial specialist, we have industry connections across Queensland (and Australia) that give us a distinct advantage when designing specific and agile strategies.
- We understand the nuances of your industry and your local and interstate competitors.
- We’ll help you identify and adapt to economic changes, opportunities and challenges.
But enough from us — read through our case studies to see what our efforts deliver.
Our methodology
Our proven methodology
How we get you set
The first phase is all about establishing the fundamentals of your business and creating a strong foundation to build from. You also need to establish your long-term goals so you have a clear idea of what you're working towards.
- Plan your goals
- Structure your business and assets
- Online accounting
- People and HR
- Protect your business and personal risk
- Business and personal will
How we get you moving
The second phase is about gaining a deeper understanding of your business; how to make it more efficient and experience sustainable growth. This is where you transition from working in your business to working on your business.
- Understand your numbers
- Delegate bookkeeping
- Systematise and automate tasks
- Minimise tax
- Forecast cashflow and capital needs
- Quarterly coaching and accountability
How we get you free
The final phase is when all your hard work really starts to pay off. This is when you start using your profits to build your personal worth to a point that give you financial freedom—the freedom to work only if you want to.
- Understand wealth creation
- Investment portfolio
- Investment property
- Superannuation
- Succession and exit planning
- Your legacy
Our Gold Coast case studies
Safe T Pro
We built Safe T Pro a financial model to give them a clearer insight into their business performance, enabling them to scale without putting too much pressure on cashflow.
Read about it
Success comes with responsibility. We’re glad to give back.
We set out to build the best financial advisory business we could, and we’re proud to say we’ve vastly exceeded our goals. But we say that with humility; success isn’t just built through personal effort, but through the support of our community.
Here at the Liston Newton Gold Coast office, we’ve chosen to support a suite of charities and business initiatives that are close to our hearts.
- The Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea
- The Cancer Council’s Small Business Advisory Service
- The Type 1 Foundation, as diabetes has affected the Liston family
Frequently asked questions
How can a virtual CFO help my business?
A great virtual CFO can provide the same services as an internal CFO, including optimising your accounting processes, analysing financial trends and delivering shareholder reports.
If you’d like to learn more, let’s discuss the 6 benefits of hiring a virtual CFO.
How much will it cost to hire a virtual CFO?
The cost of a virtual CFO will depend on the specific responsibilities you need them to take charge of. Quotes will also need to factor in the length of the engagement and its temporary or ongoing needs.
Book a consultation with our Gold Coast advisors, and we’ll be able to give you a tailored quote.
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We are a virtual financial specialist, not an AI shortcut
The rising supply of AI-infused financial services has, in our opinion, only exacerbated the confusion around what ‘artificial intelligence’ actually is. The science-fiction idea of the technology is still well out of reach. What we have today is a marketing term applied to disparate and uneven technologies built more on hype than practicality.
Here’s our word. AI is not the game-changer it is proclaimed to be. It may deliver on its promises in the future. But for now, it is unable to deliver the tailored, specific and high-value thinking demanded of a virtual CFO. AI may be an innovation, but it cannot innovate.
While we may use AI tools for basic data processing, we never rely on them for strategy. That, we leave to our human experts.
