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The ROI of Outsourced Finance & Accounting

The Finance as a Service solution offers growing organizations greater flexibility, efficiency, scalability, and cost savings than traditional F&A department building.
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How Much Does Outsourced Accounting Cost?

The right outsourcing partner can save you between 20-50% of building an in-house accounting team.
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3 ways to integrate finance with the supply chain

The supply chain is truly integral to the functioning of any business. Not surprisingly, it also consumes a large portion of a company’s operating expenses ...
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3 digital tools to aid mergers and acquisitions

Mergers and acquisitions are unavoidable in the modern economy. The Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances reported more than 50,000 such transactions occurred in 2017, ...
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Best practices for driving digital finance in your back office

  Improvement is a key consideration for business leaders throughout the modern economy, and finance is no exception. While the core concepts of managing a ...
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4 long-term concerns around the finance talent gap

Today’s executives and financial leaders across all sectors are always looking for what’s next. Sometimes, that planning can feel more like concern for the future. ...
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3 tips for improving relations between CFO and CEO

CEOs and CFOs have more skills and responsibilities in common than ever before. They also rely on each other to operate effectively in what could ...
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8 Benefits of Outsourced Accounting & Finance Services

Outsourced finance and accounting offers a unique way for growing businesses to competitively scale.
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3 finance & accounting trends that continue to deliver in 2022

  Finance and accounting continues to be the business function most primed for disruption through innovative technology. As in other examples of tech-enabled trailblazing, it’s ...
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Consero Global delivers a robust financial solution

Below is a recent interview with Scott Tynes, CEO of Consero Global. This interview was originally posted by TechCompanyNews.com on May 21, 2018. Q: Could you ...
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Building out an F&A team: Putting tech and talent to work

This guest blog by Consero was originally published by Accounting Today on April 12, 2018. In recent years, the key role of the CFO in ...
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3 keys to IPO success

After a sluggish stretch, initial public offerings surged worldwide in 2017. According to data from Ernst and Young, last year brought the most IPOs and ...
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Finance as a Service (FaaS): Going beyond outsourced accounting

Consero's solution combines traditional CFO, controller and bookkeeping services with proven processes and integrated software.
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3 tips to make a corporate turnaround possible

We hear a lot about corporate turnaround stories, either as historic examples or hypothetical musings. Most executives have probably wished for a significant transformation at ...
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5 reasons why strategic CFOs outsource accounting

Accounting remains a challenge to businesses both large and small. It’s not just because the need for accurate and timely accounting data is constant – ...
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Reducing compliance risk with better finance systems

Recent court cases, including a particularly consequential Supreme Court decision, have changed the calculus around compliance and fraud reporting. These new developments only bolster the ...
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Consero FaaS: Disrupting the Outdated Traditional F&A Model

Transformation
  • Cash to GAAP conversion
  • Clean-up work
  • Interim oversight & support
  • Accounting software Implementation

Build it Yourself Solution

  • CFO / Interim CFO
  • Consultants / VARs

Consero FaaS Solution

  • CFO / Interim CFO
  • or Consero Interim CFO
  • Consero Setup/Transformation
Ongoing F&A
  • Monthly financials
  • Daily accounting support
  • Management reporting
  • Integrate add-on acquisitions

Build it Yourself Solution

  • CFO
  • Controllers & Accounting Team
  • Enterprise Accounting Applications

Consero FaaS Solution

  • CFO
  • or Consero Fractional CFO
  • Consero FaaS Enterprise F&A Software and Services

New PE Platform Investment F&A Challenges

Founder Owned Company Accounting:
  • Existing accounting done on a cash/hybrid basis
  • Run on SMB accounting software and other disparate applications
  • Inability to produce auditable financials
  • Lack of know-how to develop projections & KPIs
  • No consistency/structure to customer contracts
  • Underqualified staff
  • Non-scalable manual processes
Carve-Out Accounting:
  • Required to move off parent company accounting applications in a timely fashion
  • Have to build an entire F&A team
  • No documented operational policies and procedures
To Optimized Finance & Accounting:
  • Monthly financials available in 5-10 business days
  • Audit and diligence ready support details
  • Integrated enterprise grade accounting software
  • Budget and forecast reporting
  • Business KPIs
  • Efficient & scalable processes for rolling in add-ons