Fractional CFOs, VCs & Accounting Firms

★ For Fractional CFOs, Accounting Firms, VCs and Venture Studios

Every Company You Look After.
One Sign‑In.

Add each company you advise, own or back to your own sign-in. Each one keeps its own books, budget and team, and you move between them from the account menu.

QuickBooks Online & Puzzle Synced every night Hand a company to its owner
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One Sign-In for Every Company

When you add a company, you say what it is to you. That decides where it is listed and who holds it.

Fractional CFOs & Accounting Firms

Companies You Advise

  • ✓ Add a client’s company under your own sign-in. It is listed under Clients I advise.
  • ✓ Set it up yourself, or invite the client’s owner. When they accept, they become the Owner and you stay on as an External Admin.
  • ✓ Each client keeps its own books, its own budget and its own team.

VCs, Venture Studios & Holding Companies

Companies You Own or Back

  • ✓ Add a portfolio company, a second business or a holding company as part of your organization. It is listed under My companies.
  • ✓ You hold it as its Owner, and you can invite an Owner later and step down to Admin.
  • ✓ Run your own firm on it too. Track your business units as classes and see your budget by class.

The Questions You’ll Ask First

“How does the data get in, and how fresh is it?”

Each company connects its own QuickBooks Online or Puzzle account. Its books sync every night, and Re-sync Actuals on the Budget page pulls in the latest when you need it, up to three times in 24 hours.

“Every company’s budget is in a different format. How do I load one, and what about a mid-year re-forecast?”

With our template, in Excel or CSV: export it, fill in the company’s numbers and import them. If a budget is in another layout, copy its numbers into the template first. To re-forecast, import the revised numbers the same way, or change the company’s plan in Planning (Beta) and republish it.

“How do I see budget against actuals each month, and report the variances?”

The Budget page lays a company’s budget out month by month beside its actuals, with the variance. Export it to Excel for your own report: budget, actual and variance for every month, on one sheet. Or ask Merlin how the budget compares with the actuals.

“Where does modeling fit in, and can I see the net change it makes?”

An initiative is a what-if: a hire, a cost cut, a new revenue line. Its cards compare the baseline with the initiative for cash balance, runway, net income and average monthly revenue. Once you decide, add it to the budget, or to a plan in Planning (Beta).

“We run business units as classes. Can I see the budget by class?”

Not only can you track budgets by Classes, but you can also Plan & model Initiatives by Class as well. If it’s tagged in your accounting system, you’ll see it reflected here too.

“Can I switch easily between a portfolio company and our own?”

Yes. Open the account menu and choose Switch companies. Your companies are grouped under My companies and Clients I advise, with a filter once you have more than eight, and you pick the one to open. Works on mobile too.

Add a Company in a Few Steps

1

Add

From the account menu, add a company. Name it, and say whether it is a client you advise or part of your organization.

2

Connect

A short setup walks you through the company’s details, connecting its QuickBooks Online or Puzzle account, adding a payment method, and inviting people.

3

Keep or Hand Off

Keep the company, or invite its owner. When they accept, they become the Owner and you stay on: as an External Admin on a client’s company, as an Admin on your own.

What You See in Each Company

Open a company and you work in it the way its own team does: dashboard, budget, initiatives and Merlin.

Each Company’s Profit and Loss

The Budget page lays out a company’s profit and loss month by month, starting with its actuals from the books. Filter it by initiative, class or vendor.

See Budgeting →
The Budget page's profit and loss table for a demo company: revenue and cost of revenue lines with six months of actuals, under filters for initiative, class and vendor

What an Initiative Changes

Each card compares the baseline with the initiative, so you see the change before anyone commits to it.

See Scenario Planning →
An initiative's cards for cash balance, runway, net income and average monthly revenue, each comparing the baseline with the initiative

The Budget by Class

Where available: if a company’s books track classes, such as business units, pick one and the Budget page shows that class.

See Budgeting →
The class filter open on the Budget page, listing All classes, No Class Tag and one class

Questions From Advisors and Investors

Who is MyRunwayHealth for, if I look after more than one company? +
Fractional CFOs and controllers, accounting firms, VCs, venture studios and holding companies: anyone who looks after the finances of more than one company. You add each company to your own sign-in and move between them from the account menu.
Do I need a separate sign-in for each company? +
No. Add each company to the sign-in you already have. Open the account menu and choose Switch companies to move to another one. Your companies are listed under My companies and Clients I advise.
Does each company keep its own data? +
Yes. Each company is a separate set of books, with its own data, its own connection to QuickBooks Online or Puzzle, and its own team.
Can I hand a company over to its owner? +
Yes. Invite its owner when you add the company, or later. When they accept, they become the Owner and you stay on: as an External Admin on a client’s company, as an Admin on your own.
How fresh is each company’s data? +
Each company’s books sync every night. When you need the latest sooner, Re-sync Actuals on the Budget page pulls it in, up to three times in 24 hours.
Can I take the numbers into my own tools? +
Yes, with the Developer API. Create a token in Settings and choose what it can do: import a budget, export it, or read the chart of accounts. One token reaches every company you belong to. If API access is not on for a company yet, Settings has a link to request it. Talk to us about MCP access.
How do we get started? +
Talk to us. Book a time, tell us about your companies and how you work, and we will show you how it fits.

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