Industry · Fashion and Apparel
Stop discovering margin at season's end.
Fractional CFO, Accounting, and Analytics for fashion and apparel brands. The numbers that matter, while you still have time to act on them.
01 / The work
How we think about fashion and apparel finance.
Channel margin is the question. Blended margin hides the answer.
Inventory commits months ahead of revenue. Planning starts there.
Working capital is strategy. Not what's left over.
Marketing is the swing variable. We measure it by what actually paid back.
02 / What we hear
What you’re really wrestling with.
“Our blended margin looks fine. By channel it's all over the place. Where am I actually making money?”
“We spent $300K on marketing last quarter. Half of it worked. I just don't know which half.”
“We're growing fast and running out of cash. Inventory ate everything. Where do I start unwinding it?”
“We sell on five channels. Two are dragging the other three. I just don't know which.”
03 / Where we sit
Where we sit in your finance function.
Margin analysis
True margin by SKU, channel, and customer cohort. After paid spend, fulfillment, freight, and platform fees. The number you actually price, promote, and plan against.
Channel performance
DTC, marketplaces, retail, wholesale: true revenue and margin contribution by channel, after the costs that summary reports usually bury. Which channels are funding which.
Working capital strategy
A balance sheet that supports growth instead of constraining it. Inventory commits, payment terms, and cash conversion cycle, modeled against the pace you're trying to grow at.
Marketing profitability
Channel-, campaign-, and partner-level ROAS that ties back to your books. We separate the spend that built the brand from the spend that built burn.
Launch economics
Pre-launch modeling on inventory commit, marketing budget, and target margin. In-flight monitoring against plan. Post-launch analysis that informs the next drop or collection.
Let’s talk
Let’s see if we’re a fit.
Schedule time to meet our team. We want to hear about your business: where it is today, where you want to take it, and what’s slowing you down. If we see an opportunity to help, we’ll come back with a clear plan and a statement of work to match.
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