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 Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 As of October 16, 2026, a mid-level contract accountant bills $59 to $75 an hour nationally, median $65, and a senior accountant bills $77 to $94, median $87, or about $45,300 for a three-month contract. Those two lines come from the KORE1 Contract Rate Index 2026-Q4, and they’re … Read more
By Colin Boothe, CIO at Foretopia NetSuite Planning and Budgeting is worth it when a lot of people feed your budget, you reforecast at least quarterly, and your NetSuite segments are clean. Without those three, it’s a prettier spreadsheet with an annual invoice. And if you start implementing it during budget season, it’s shelfware by … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 Co-sourcing internal audit means your chief audit executive keeps the plan, the methodology, and the sign-off, and buys outside hours for specific gaps. Outsourcing hands the whole function to a firm. The decision is about who stays accountable, not about headcount. The quote came back at $410,000 … Read more
By Robert Ardell, Co-Founder and Strategic Advisor, KORE1 CBP has accepted roughly $134.7 billion in IEEPA tariff refund claims, and Phase 3 opened October 6, 2026, but only importers already suing at the Court of International Trade can file in it. The money is real. The bottleneck is people who can prove a claim entry … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A financial analyst job description should name the analyst profile, whose decisions the analysis feeds, whether the hire builds a model or maintains one, where the numbers live, and a base range, roughly $90,000 to $115,000 mid-level. Almost no posting names even three of those. They list duties that … Read more
By Mike Carter, Managing Director, KORE1 Good financial analyst interview questions in 2026 make the candidate push one number through all three statements, explain a budget miss to someone outside finance, and own a forecast they got wrong. Definitions can be memorized the night before. Those three can’t. A building-products distributor in Sacramento learned this … Read more
By Jennifer Burdick, Recruiting Manager, KORE1 A controller job description should state how many entities the books cover, whether the statements are compiled, reviewed, or audited, the close target, the ERP, the team size, what the controller signs, and the pay range. Base pay for most controller seats runs from $115,000 to $235,000 in 2026, … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The best controller interview questions in 2026 make the candidate trace one transaction from source document to financial statement, explain one balance sheet account line by line, and rework a small reconciliation in the room. Describing the job is the easy part. Every finalist can do it. … Read more
By Devin Hornick, Co-Founder and Partner, KORE1 A CFO job description should name the decisions the CFO owns, what reports to them, who they answer to (the board, an audit committee, a lender, a sponsor), and the whole pay structure, bonus and equity included. Most CFO postings describe a controller’s job under a bigger title. … Read more
By Tom Kenaley, President and Senior Partner, KORE1 The CFO interview questions that matter in 2026 test which kind of CFO your company needs, whether the candidate knows their current numbers without notes, and how they would run the next thirteen weeks of cash. Nobody reaches a CFO final round without knowing what EBITDA is. … Read more
