For businesses
Advisory & Consulting
Big decisions get made fast, on thin information. Advisory puts someone who knows your numbers in the room first.
Who this is for
- Owners facing a decision with real financial stakes
- Businesses in a growth, hiring, or pricing shift
- Owners with numbers who want help reading them
What usually prompts the call
You are probably here because of one of these.
- Deciding whether you can afford to hire
- Costs have risen; prices have not
- Cash is tight on a profitable business
- Weighing a purchase, loan, partner, or exit
Scope
What is included — and what is not.
Being specific about the boundaries up front is how engagements stay clean.
Included
- Working sessions on one specific decision
- Analysis built on your actual financials
- Scenarios compared for cash and tax impact
- Written follow-up on what was decided
Not included
- Investment, securities, or insurance advice
- Legal advice
- Guaranteed business outcomes
How the engagement runs
What happens, in order.
- 01
Frame
We define the real decision and what it requires.
- 02
Ground
We pull the numbers so nothing rests on impressions.
- 03
Compare
We work the realistic options and their consequences.
- 04
Decide
You decide, with the trade-offs written down.
The practical details
What to have ready
- The decision you are weighing, in your words
- Current financial statements
- Quotes or numbers already gathered
Cadence
One decision, or a standing rhythm alongside bookkeeping.
Who we can serve
Business financial and tax advisory only. VICI Financial gives no legal, investment, or insurance advice.
Advisory & Consulting — common questions
- How is advisory different from a Fractional CFO?
- Advisory is engaged per decision. A Fractional CFO is a standing seat with a set cadence and recurring outputs.
- Do we need clean books first?
- Usually yes. Advice on unreliable numbers is just a confident opinion.
Before you book
What a discovery call is
A discovery call is a two-way conversation about whether VICI Financial can help. If not, Joe says so early.
What we will talk about
- What the business does and how it makes money
- What is hardest right now
- Where you want the business in a year
- Whether VICI Financial is a fit, and the next step either way
Worth having handy
None of this is required to book — it just makes the first conversation more useful.
- Recent business and personal tax returns, if handy
- How the books are kept, and who touches them
- The two or three decisions you are weighing
Keeping your data safe
Do not send tax documents, Social Security numbers, account numbers, or payroll files through this website. Once we are working together, everything sensitive moves through our secure client portal.
Often handled alongside this
Talk through advisory & consulting.
A short conversation about your situation — and an honest answer about whether advisory & consulting is where you should start.
Prefer the phone? (315) 606-8424