Reports, but no answers
You get a P&L every month. Nobody tells you what it means for the hire, the price change or the big purchase you're weighing.
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Accounting + fractional CFO advisory
Your numbers should do more than close the month.
Ferris helps construction, service and retail business owners get clean books, see where the money is really being made, and make the big calls with a CFO in their corner.
Based in Kansas City
15 yearsIn the numbers
Direct accessYou talk to Laura, every time
Built for youConstruction, retail + service
Inventory + job costingMy specialty
Sound familiar?
You get the reports. You still don't know what to do with them.
Here's what I hear from owners most.
Cash stuck on the shelves
Money is tied up in inventory or unfinished jobs, and your reports don't show which products or jobs actually make you money.
No one to call
You send stuff over and hear nothing back until tax season. By then, the decision you needed help with is long gone.
The year-end scramble
January hits and you're digging for receipts. Your tax preparer has never seen your books, so the return gets filed on whatever's there. Then you find out what you owe.
The working relationship
First, get the numbers right. Then put them to work.
Learn your business
We start with how money moves through your business, what decisions are coming up, and where your current reports leave you guessing.
Set up your books around you
Your accounting gets organized around your margins, inventory and jobs, not someone else's template.
Use it to decide
Each month we go over what changed, what it means and what the business can handle, before a decision turns into an emergency.
Meet Laura Ferris
Fifteen years in the numbers. Still the one who explains them.
I grew up in Baldwin City, Kansas, the youngest of four sisters. I earned my bachelor's in accounting from Ottawa University, and I've spent the fifteen years since then in the numbers.
I've been the controller and the person behind the books for construction companies, manufacturers, cannabis businesses under 280E, service providers and small retail stores. Job costing and inventory are the work I love most: figuring out what something really costs and where the money is actually being made.
I started Ferris because too many owners were getting financial statements without anyone sitting down to explain them. Every decision has a tax side, so I keep it in the conversation all year. When tax season comes, I work directly with your tax preparer and hand over books that are ready to file.
Laura Ferris, Founder
CPA candidateCredential in progress
Ottawa UniversityBachelor's in Accounting
ControllerAcross five industries
Baldwin City, KSHometown, now based in Kansas City
Upcoming events
Come learn in person.
Classes and workshops around Kansas City.
A money class for real life
Rent, the card, and nothing left?
Solid Ground: Building Your Financial House. Ninety minutes on getting your feet back under you. No experience needed, and it works whether you're on a paycheck or a fixed income.
- Where your money actually goes, in plain numbers
- A plan for a card balance that keeps growing
- A first cushion, so one surprise doesn't undo everything
- A printed packet to keep
Tuesday, November 10 · 6:30 to 8:00 PM Unity Temple on the Plaza, Classroom D, 707 W. 47th St
$35 · with Jen Watts of Centering Journey
$35 · with Jen Watts of Centering Journey
Tickets open October 13. Questions before then? Email me.