We run your numbers so you can run your business.
At Black Dog Financial, we turn your financial data into clear insight you can act on, helping you make strategic business decisions. We are your financial department as a service. It all starts with good bookkeeping.
How We Can Help
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We work with you to deliver reliable financial reports so you can focus on growing your business.
Each month, we deliver a Monthly Client Report—a complete financial package that includes your Profit & Loss, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement. It’s designed to make it easy to review results, track monthly trends, and understand the story behind the numbers. This is our deliverable to you that translates bookkeeping data into business intelligence.
We also support various levels of AR/AP Management and Payroll Management.
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Clarity creates confidence. A financial dashboard will allow you to see trends and proactively make decisions by taking your financial data and presenting it in a consistent consumable report.
Numbers alone don’t tell the story. Our financial dashboard organizes your financials into a clear, visual format that highlights the metrics that affect your decision-making. It’s the tool that helps you move from “working in the business” to “working on the business”.
It’s financial clarity, customized to the goals you want the company to achieve.
The Foundation Strategy
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Feel like your financials aren’t in a place to get bank financing?
Banking can be complex, but it doesn’t have to be. Our Banking Strategy service gives you a direct partner to manage the relationship with your bank—negotiating terms, reviewing lending structures, and ensuring you always get the right solutions for your business. From loans and treasury services to account setup and renewals, we simplify the process and advocate on your behalf, so you can focus on running your company.
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Every business reaches a point where instinct alone isn’t enough. A CFO helps you move from intuition to intention — stabilizing the company, guiding strategic growth, and managing risk with clarity.
Through structured monthly meetings, you gain the insight, discipline, and foresight of a seasoned financial leader at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Our CFO Strategy Service prioritizes cash flow stability through a 13-week direct cash flow model and a rolling 12-month budget that keeps the business aligned, forward-looking, and prepared for growth.
From there, we help you tackle the strategic initiatives and process improvements you’ve wanted to pursue — the projects that move the company forward but haven’t had a clear path or owner until now.
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Are you preparing to acquire another company or considering selling equity for growth or an exit? Selling or acquiring a business requires more than interest—it requires preparation. Our M&A Readiness service positions your company for a successful transaction by ensuring your financials are clean, reliable, and investor-ready.
There are two major drivers of value: scalability and profitability. To truly understand these, we evaluate leadership, revenue diversity, financial quality, economic factors, and risk management.
We evaluate your company through an M&A Readiness Scorecard, identifying what drives or limits enterprise value. Then we work with your leadership team to strengthen operations, margins, and financial systems — preparing your business to command a higher multiple before it’s time to sell.
The Finance Strategy
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Are you still running parts of your business on outdated processes?
Do tasks take longer than they should, or depend on one key person to get done right?
We help you streamline how your business operates — documenting, refining, and systemizing the critical workflows that drive performance. Through structured SOPs, accountability mapping, and operational reviews, we make your business more efficient, scalable, and transferable. The result is a company that runs smoother today and commands a higher valuation tomorrow.
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Operational Integrator Strategy implements a clear operating system for your leadership team. We help organize leadership meetings, set quarterly and weekly priorities, track progress against a simple operating scorecard, and ensure every initiative has a clear owner. The goal is to create a predictable rhythm so the team knows what to focus on and how decisions get made.
This service supports your leaders in turning plans into action. We help coordinate across departments, resolve issues quickly, and keep the organization moving in alignment. It pairs naturally with our financial and strategic work, creating a unified system that helps the company operate with clarity and consistency.
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Do you ever have your CPA telling you one thing and your banker saying another?
Do your advisors actually communicate with each other — and if they do, are they aligned with your long-term goals?
We act as the central point of clarity for your advisory network. Each quarter, we bring together your CPA, attorney, banker, wealth advisor, M&A consultant, and any other advisor you rely on to align around a single financial strategy. The result is cohesion, transparency, and unified direction across every professional supporting your business.
The Operational Execution Strategy
Zak Sultan
“Gut instinct starts the business. Solid financials scale it.”
“Black Dog Financial was built to turn financial confusion into clarity—and clarity into opportunity.”
Meet the Team
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Zak Sultan
FOUNDER
I built Black Dog Financial to give business owners the finance team they deserve—without the overhead.
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Madeline Stout
BUSINESS ADVISOR
Madeline is a finance and data analytics professional with over 15 years of experience helping businesses achieve clarity, control, and profitability.
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Antonia Musto
SENIOR LEVEL BOOKKEEPER
Antonia Musto is a seasoned business operations and finance professional with over 20 years of experience supporting growing companies.