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Cannabis Financial Reporting for New Mexico Operators

Financial reporting in cannabis has to serve three audiences with different needs: operators who need decision data, investors and lenders who need comparable statements, and regulators or examiners who need traceability. We build one reporting system that satisfies all three instead of three sets of numbers that don't agree with each other.

GAAP-Aligned Statements

Investors and institutional lenders expect accrual-basis statements with proper inventory valuation, revenue recognition, lease accounting and accrued liabilities. Many operators run on a cash-basis approximation that can't survive diligence.

We prepare accrual statements with supporting schedules, and where a transaction is on the horizon we also prepare the historical restatement diligence will require.

  • Balance sheet, income statement and cash flow statement with footnote support
  • Inventory valuation schedules tied to physical and BioTrack records
  • Fixed asset registers and depreciation schedules by function
  • Debt, lease and related-party disclosure schedules

Multi-Entity and Consolidated Reporting

New Mexico operators frequently run several entities: a licensee, a property holding company, a management company, occasionally a brand entity. Reporting has to work consolidated and by entity, with intercompany transactions cleanly eliminated.

Consolidation quality matters beyond presentation — intercompany arrangements are a primary examination target, and reporting that can't separate them invites the conclusion that the entities aren't genuinely separate.

Fractional CFO strategy session reviewing cannabis financial projections in a glass boardroom above downtown Albuquerque at dusk

Operating Dashboards and KPIs

Statements are lagging indicators. Dashboards make performance visible while it can still be changed. We report the short list of metrics that actually drive a cannabis P&L: gross margin by channel and category, cost per pound or per unit, inventory turns and aging, labor as a percentage of gross profit, and cash conversion.

The metric set is kept deliberately short. A dashboard nobody reads has no operating value.

Investor and Lender Packages

Capital providers in cannabis lend and invest against inventory, receivables and demonstrated margin, and their reporting covenants are demanding. We produce the recurring package — statements, covenant calculations, borrowing base, variance commentary — on the schedule the agreement requires.

Consistency is the goal. Reporting that changes format or method from quarter to quarter reads as instability regardless of the underlying performance.

Cannabis accountants reviewing financial reports and margin analytics on screen in a dark executive office overlooking the Sandia Mountains

Audit and Review Readiness

Operators pursuing an external audit or review, an acquisition, or an out-of-state expansion need records prepared to a higher standard: documented policies, supported estimates, complete reconciliations and an evidence trail for every material balance.

We prepare the schedules an external auditor will request and manage the request list during fieldwork, which shortens the engagement and lowers its cost.

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