Expert insights on accounting and finance staffing, including fractional CFO services, controller hiring, AP/AR team building, and financial talent acquisition strategies for growing businesses.
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 Hiring a NetSuite consultant in 2026 costs $85 to $250 an hour for most US engagements. Offshore resources bill $30 to $75, independents $85 to $150, staffing-firm contractors $90 to $185, boutique partners $150 to $250, and Big 4 teams more. The spread is not noise. … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite financial reporting already includes real-time income statements, balance sheets, saved searches, SuiteAnalytics workbooks, and role dashboards. Whether any of that tells you if you’re making money depends on how your segments are set up, not on the software. The tools ship with the license. The answer doesn’t. Accuserve … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President at KORE1 VP of Finance salaries run $195,000 to $280,000 base in 2026 at most private companies, with PE-backed and pre-IPO seats reaching $300,000 and public-company divisional VPs clearing $340,000. The band is wide because the job is. Two people with the same title, the same team size, … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A NetSuite solution architect designs the subsidiary structure, segment strategy, and integration pattern your instance will live with for years, and in 2026 they run $150,000 to $220,000 base or $95 to $165 an hour on contract. That is a different hire from a consultant who configures … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 Controllers earn $115,000 to $185,000 base in 2026, with corporate controllers at audited, multi-entity companies reaching $175,000 to $235,000 and public-company controllers clearing $265,000. Those bands move on one thing more than any other, and it is not years of experience. It is what the monthly close … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia You have outgrown QuickBooks when the number of people required to answer one business question keeps climbing. Not a revenue number. A headcount-per-answer number. The ledger stays accurate the whole time. It just stops being the place anybody looks first, and the spreadsheets quietly become the real system. A … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Co-Founder and President, KORE1 Build in-house when your NetSuite instance changes most weeks and somebody has to answer on Tuesday morning. Bring in a consultant when the work is project-shaped, deep, and finite. Nearly every company treats this as a budget question. It is a cadence question. The budget falls out of … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, Senior Partner and President, KORE1 A NetSuite functional consultant decides what the system should do and configures it natively. A technical consultant writes the SuiteScript and integrations for whatever configuration cannot reach. One owns the process. One owns the code. Sounds academic. It is not. Post the wrong req and it costs … Read more
By Mike Carter, Director of Partnership Success, KORE1 A NetSuite implementation costs $35,000 to $100,000 for a small single-entity build and $180,000 to $410,000 for a typical mid-market rollout, counting software, services, and your own staff time. Most mid-market projects go live in four to six months. The number that surprises people is the third … Read more
Choosing between NetSuite and Sage Intacct talent is a department decision, not a size one. NetSuite is an operations and systems hire, while Sage Intacct is a finance and accounting hire, and both platforms fit the same mid-market company. Most comparison guides never get there. They stack up modules and pricing tiers and call it … Read more
