Clean, readable financial dashboards built for decision-making, not just compliance.
Annual budgets and rolling forecasts that actually reflect how your business operates.
Help preparing for credit conversations, covenant reporting, and lender updates.
Understanding which products, services, and customers are actually profitable.
Getting your financials clean and organized before a sale, partnership, or ownership transition.
Why it works
This is your business. The role is to give you better information and a clearer picture, not to take over.
Tyler Dickson is based in Edmond with a decade of experience across oilfield, manufacturing, and construction lending in the OKC market.
When you hire Scissortail, you get Tyler. Not a team of associates working off a checklist.
Start with a defined scope. Expand when it makes sense. No long-term contracts required.
Most calls start the same way. "I should have called sooner." Let's figure out where you are and what makes sense.
Schedule a Free ConversationOklahoma City businesses in the $1M to $20M range get CFO-level financial leadership — cash flow visibility, forecasting, margin analysis, and the financial strategy that drives real decisions — without adding a $150,000+ salary to the overhead.
See also: Fractional CFO Oklahoma · Fractional COO Oklahoma City
Weekly and monthly cash flow tracking so OKC business owners know exactly where cash is going to be — not where they hope it will be. Construction companies, energy services firms, and healthcare businesses all face cash timing challenges that a real forecast addresses before they become crises.
Monthly financial packages that tell a story. P&L by business line, cash flow statement, balance sheet — delivered on time and built for what OKC business owners actually need to make decisions, not just what satisfies year-end compliance.
Understanding which customers, contracts, and service lines are actually profitable in Oklahoma City's competitive market. OKC businesses that operate in energy, construction, and healthcare often have margin compression that doesn't show up in top-line revenue but shows up clearly in unit economics analysis.
Managing lender relationships, covenant compliance, line of credit conversations, and the financial presentation that gets OKC businesses the capital they need. The Oklahoma City banking market is relationship-driven — having a CFO who speaks that language matters.
Annual budgets and rolling forecasts built around how your OKC business actually operates. Not a spreadsheet that gets filed and ignored — a working model that management uses to make real decisions throughout the year.
Preparing Oklahoma City businesses financially for a sale, partner buyout, or capital raise. Clean books, normalized earnings, and the financial documentation that supports a strong transaction outcome. OKC's active M&A market rewards businesses that come in prepared.
If the primary financial input into your decisions is checking the account balance, you're missing the forward-looking picture. A fractional CFO builds the forecast that tells you where you're going — not just where you are.
This is the most common problem in Oklahoma City's construction and energy services businesses. Revenue looks fine but cash is always scarce. The culprit is almost always working capital — receivables timing, contract billing cycles, or overhead that grew faster than margin.
If you'd be uncomfortable showing your financials to a lender, investor, or potential buyer — that's the problem. Clean books aren't just for compliance. They're for access to capital and maximum value at exit.
Revenue is climbing but the business doesn't feel more profitable. That's a unit economics problem — growth is bringing in overhead and complexity faster than margin. A fractional CFO diagnoses which revenue is worth having and which isn't.
OKC businesses that sell for maximum value started the financial preparation 2 to 3 years before going to market. The work — clean books, normalized earnings, documented systems — takes time. Starting early creates options.
A CPA handles compliance. A fractional CFO handles strategy — on a monthly basis, not once a year. If your most substantive financial conversation is with your CPA in March, there's a gap in financial leadership.
Oklahoma City's core industry. Cash flow management through commodity cycles, capital expenditure planning, and the financial infrastructure that keeps energy businesses healthy in both the up and down cycles.
Project cash flow, bonding capacity, and the financial reporting that construction lenders and sureties require. OKC's construction market is active and competitive — financial clarity gives contractors an edge.
Revenue cycle analysis, practice management finances, and the operational financial infrastructure for growing Oklahoma City healthcare businesses.
Financial infrastructure for OKC's growing tech and professional services sector. Recurring revenue models, SaaS metrics, and the financial foundation that supports capital raises and growth.
A full look at the current financial picture — books, cash position, reporting quality, and the specific gaps that are costing the business clarity. Most OKC businesses have at least one financial blind spot that surfaces in the first 30 days.
A short list of the highest-leverage financial improvements in the right order. The five things that will have the most impact on financial visibility and decision-making — not a 40-item consulting report.
Implement the financial infrastructure the business needs — cash flow model, monthly reporting package, budget and forecast framework. The work that gives the owner a clear financial picture on an ongoing basis.
Monthly reporting review, cash flow management, decision support, and financial strategy as the business evolves. The engagement adapts to where the business is going, not just where it started.
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