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Accounting Automation Explained: The Definitive Guide

This article has since been updated with new discoveries and research in January 2026. TL;DR Accounting automation explained simply: it’s the rules, workflows, and integrations that move financial data through your accounting processes with fewer manual steps and stronger controls. The fastest wins come from automating high-volume, cash-adjacent work first, like accounts payable, expenses, reconciliations, […]

Construction Accounting That Actually Supports Bold Decisions (Not Just Clean Books)

If you can build a multimillion-dollar project, your finances should not feel like a guessing game. But for a lot of growth-minded GCs and homebuilders, that is exactly what happens as you push from $5M to $20M. Buildertrend becomes the heartbeat of the job, QuickBooks becomes the “official” record, and somehow the two still drift. […]

How a Fractional CFO Solved the Offshore Staffing Problem

Before Nimbl was a full-scale financial operations firm, it was just one person doing it all. In the early 2010s, now founder and CEO Dave Olsen was a solo fractional CFO supporting startups and small businesses. And like many finance professionals, he found himself hitting a wall—not in demand, but in capacity. He wasn’t just […]

What Is Cloud Accounting? Key Benefits for Scaling Your Business

When your business outgrows spreadsheets or outdated desktop tools, keeping up with your finances can become a significant challenge. This is where cloud accounting comes in. Cloud accounting provides growing businesses with a smarter, faster way to manage their financial data, enabling them to gain the clarity needed to make informed decisions. Instead of relying […]

SaaS Accounting: The Strategic Back Office Framework for Scaling Tech Companies

Scaling a software-as-a-service (SaaS) company doesn’t just require product-market fit. It demands financial clarity. For most SaaS startups, momentum builds quickly. Revenue grows, teams expand, and new markets open up. But behind that rapid growth? A back office struggling to keep pace. Without a clear, connected financial foundation, even the most promising SaaS business can […]

Ecommerce Accounting 101: Building a Scalable Financial Back Office

eCommerce is booming—but so is the complexity that comes with managing your back office. Between managing multichannel sales, collecting sales tax, tracking inventory, and reconciling payment processors, things can become overwhelming quickly. Add in marketing expenses, ad spend, and accounting methods like accrual accounting vs. cash basis accounting, and suddenly your accounting software is doing […]

Cloud-Based Accounting: What It Is and How It Powers Scalable Growth

Many small business owners feel trapped by outdated accounting practices. Disconnected systems, manual data entry, and inconsistent accounting data can slow decision-making and add risk. Solutions like cloud accounting technology change that. By shifting to cloud-based accounting software, leaders gain clarity, agility, and control. Cloud platforms and scalable accounting solutions allow businesses to future-proof their […]

Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur: Dave Olsen’s Journey with Nimbl

We’re thrilled to share that our founder & CEO, Dave Olsen, was recently featured in Wantrepreneur’s “Wantrepreneur to Entrepreneur” Spotlight! In his interview with Brian Lofrumento, Dave walked through the pivotal moments, hard-won lessons, and unconventional strategies that transformed Nimbl from a one-man back office to a self-scaling accounting powerhouse. “Why can’t you have both?” […]

What the Top 50 Modern Firms Do Differently

If you want different results, you need a different model. That was the underlying theme of the recent Future Firm webinar, “What the Top 50 Modern Firms Do Differently,” where Nimbl’s CEO & Founder, Dave Olsen, joined a panel of forward-thinking firm leaders to share how modern firms are breaking old rules—and why it’s working. […]

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