06/09/2026
A nonprofit came to us overwhelmed by compliance requirements and inconsistent reporting.
Their board didn't trust the financials. Grant reporting was a manual process every quarter. Leadership was spending time they didn't have reconciling numbers that didn't agree.
We implemented QuickBooks Online with nonprofit-specific chart of accounts, grant tracking, and board-ready reporting templates.
Now their financials are clean before the board meeting, not during it.
Most nonprofits don't have an accounting problem. They have a setup problem.
Free Consult: www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
Call: 980-210-6946
06/05/2026
Some of the most expensive calls we get start with: "We went live six months ago and it still doesn't work." ERP implementations fail more often than vendors will tell you.
Here's why:
❌ The implementation got handed to someone who didn't know the industry
❌ Go-live happened before the team was trained
❌ Inventory, payroll, and accounting were never properly integrated
❌ The scope kept changing and nobody documented what got skipped
We've rescued more failed implementations than we'd like to count.
The damage is always fixable. The cost of waiting isn't.
If your ERP went live but your business is still running on spreadsheets alongside it — that's the tell.
We do ERP rescue and recovery. Fixed scope, written timeline, accounting-led.
📞 (980) 210-6946 | certumsolutions.com/services/erp-implementation
06/03/2026
You don't need a $200K CFO. You need someone who thinks like one.
That's what fractional CFO services actually are — and in 2026, they've gone from a startup trend to a core strategy for businesses doing $2M–$20M.
What changes when you add fractional CFO support:
→ You stop making pricing decisions based on gut feel
→ Cash flow stops being a surprise at the end of the month
→ Your Q3 and Q4 have a plan, not a prayer
→ You have board-ready reporting before you need it
We pair fractional CFO support with your existing bookkeeping, or we handle both. Either way, you get a senior financial mind on your business without the full-time overhead.
What would it mean for your business to actually know your numbers?
Free Consult: www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
Call: 980-210-6946
06/01/2026
Halfway through 2026 and your books still don't tell you what you need to know? That's not a bookkeeping problem. That's a system problem.
Most businesses between $1M and $15M hit Q2 and realize their reporting is weeks behind, their inventory doesn't match, or they still can't answer basic questions about profitability.
Here's what a mid-year financial review should actually tell you:
→ Where your margins are by product, job, or location
→ Whether your cash position matches your projections
→ What's eating time that software should be handling
If you're missing any of those three, that's the conversation worth having before Q3.
Free 30-minute call. No pitch. Just clarity.
Link in bio → certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
Call: 980-210-6940
05/29/2026
Most teams adopt Monday.com and immediately start creating boards. Which is exactly where it goes wrong.
Without a proper project lifecycle framework, you end up with:
— Duplicate boards nobody maintains
— Projects "completed" that never actually get closed
— Automations that fire incorrectly because statuses aren't mapped right
— No way to look back at historical project data (because someone deleted the board)
Our PMP-certified PM Tish Eaton just published a full tutorial walking through how to build a professional project lifecycle in Monday.com — from intake form to archiving — using real automation logic.
The part most people skip: archiving vs. deleting. Deleting a project breaks board connections. Archiving preserves your data. It sounds small. It isn't.
If your team uses Monday (or is evaluating it), this is the setup framework you want before you build anything.
🎯 Free tutorial: https://youtu.be/MQMdE0YBzXw?si=diZiQfs-7d0aWqPA
📅 Free consult for your team: https://www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
05/27/2026
A commercial contractor didn't know which QuickBooks version was right for them.
They were guessing at job profitability. No real visibility into labor costs by project. QuickBooks wasn't wrong, it just wasn't set up for how they actually worked.
We moved them to QuickBooks Enterprise Contractor edition and built out their job costing from scratch.
Now they know exactly what each job costs, what each crew costs, and whether a project made money before they close it out.
If you find yourself having the same issue, let us help. We offer a free consultation to get the conversation started, no commitment.
Free Consult: www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
Call: 980-210-6946
05/25/2026
Wishing everyone a safe and meaningful Memorial Day. Our office is closed today in honor of those who served. We'll be back Tuesday, May 26th. 🇺🇸
05/22/2026
We've tested Monday's AI features so you don't have to. Here's what's actually worth using in 2026: 🧠
🤖 AI-generated subtasks → type a goal, Monday creates the task breakdown
📊 AI summaries → get a plain-English status update on any board
💬 AI-assisted automations → describe what you want in plain language, it builds the recipe
📁 Smart column suggestions → AI recommends columns based on your board type
The catch: AI features work best when your board structure is already clean and intentional. Garbage in = garbage out.
That's why we recommend getting a proper Monday setup BEFORE leaning on AI; so the tool actually helps instead of adding confusion.
🆓 Start a free 14-day trial: https://www.certumsolutions.com/monday-com
📅 Or book a done-for-you setup consult → https://www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation
05/20/2026
A food manufacturer came to us spending 15+ hours a week manually pulling reports out of Excel and reconciling inventory.
Their month-end close was a nightmare. Data lived in three places, none of them talking to each other.
We implemented QuickBooks Enterprise with integrated inventory. They were live in 32 days.
Reporting time dropped by 66%. The owner stopped spending Sunday nights in spreadsheets.
The system didn't change the business, it gave them back the time to run it.
If your team is doing manually what software should be doing automatically, that's the problem worth fixing first, and Certum Solutions can do just that.
Free Consultation: https://www.certumsolutions.com/
or Call: 980-210-6946
05/13/2026
Your Monday boards are a mess, not because the tool is bad, but because nobody showed you the professional way to set it up. 📋
Our PMP-certified project manager Tish Eaton built an entire project lifecycle inside Monday.com, from intake request to archiving, and she's walking you through it.
You'll learn:
✅ How to use WorkForms to capture project requests
✅ Automations that create boards the moment a request is approved
✅ How to assign tasks and due dates automatically
✅ Why you should NEVER delete a project (and what to do instead)
This isn't a feature tour. It's a real project management system.
🎯 Watch the full tutorial: https://youtu.be/MQMdE0YBzXw?si=hUJmfVsAsDgrwVfi
💼 Want it set up for you? Book a FREE consult → https://www.certumsolutions.com/book-consultation