The questions founders actually ask us
Everything below is answered the way we would answer it on a call — including the parts that are not flattering to us.
Your CA looks backward — filings, audits, tax. A virtual CFO looks forward — cash, margins, decisions. Keep your CA for the statutory audit; we are the finance brain in between.
Almost never. Your bookkeeper stays and gets better — we are the senior layer they report into: the controller and CFO you could not justify hiring full-time.
At Access CFO, engagements run from ₹50,000 a month, or roughly ₹6 lakh to ₹36 lakh a year depending on scope and company size — against ₹80 lakh to ₹1.2 crore for the equivalent in-house team. See our pricing page for what moves the number.
We work in your systems — Tally, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Busy or your ERP. Migrating software is never a precondition for starting.
Every engagement runs under a signed NDA: role-based access, no client data on personal devices, and strict information barriers between account pods.
Onboarding is a structured 30 days: a written diagnostic in week 1, books and compliance stabilised in weeks 2–3, and the monthly reporting rhythm live from week 4.
Then we have done our job. We will help you hire and hand over a finance function that is already documented and running — many clients keep us on in a lighter scope.
Thirty days’ notice, any time, either side. On exit you get every file, model and password — clients stay because they want to, not because a contract traps them.
Yes. We are based in New Delhi and meet Delhi NCR clients in person, but the engagement model is remote-first and we serve clients across India.
Because the same headline scope means very different work at ₹5 crore and at ₹80 crore of revenue, and because a fixed package either overcharges the simple business or under-serves the complex one. We scope after the week-one diagnostic and quote a fixed monthly fee against that scope, so the number is firm even though the starting range is not.
The pod (CFO lead, controller, analyst), the monthly close and MIS pack, the 13-week cash forecast, the compliance calendar and filings in scope, the monthly review call and the quarterly reforecast. Software licences you already own stay yours; statutory audit fees are separate.
Read the two pieces most people
read before they call.
How much does a virtual CFO cost in India?
What virtual CFO services actually cost in India, what moves the number up or down, and how the figure compares with building the same function in-house.
Virtual CFO vs in-house CFO vs CA firm: which one do you actually need?
Three different jobs, routinely confused. A side-by-side on cost, scope, coverage and the revenue stage each one actually fits.
Thirty minutes. We’ll tell you exactly what your finance function is missing — free, either way.
If we’re not the right fit, you’ll still leave with a prioritised list of what to fix. That’s the worst-case outcome.