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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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Outstanding Idea: Outsourcing Trade

For today’s corporations, the ground is shifting. Issues such as globalization, business efficiency, increased specialization and product innovation are percolating upwards in priority. And corporations ...
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Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Expected to Increase in 2010

A new report from global consulting and research firm Everest indicates that the Finance and Accounting Outsourcing (FAO) market in 2010 is expected to resume ...
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6 Quick Ways to Reduce the Risk of Fraud using QuickBooks

A small business owner typically can’t afford to hire enough people to have proper separation of duties to gain the internal controls needed to prevent ...
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6 Quick Ways to Reduce Fraud Risk Using QuickBooks

No system of internal control should be built on trust. Here's how to separate authorization, record keeping, and custodial responsibility in each accounting transaction.
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Markup vs. Margin: What is the Difference? [+ Calculator]

Markup is the percentage difference between cost of goods sold and the selling price, gross margin is the percentage difference between the selling price and ...
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Day Sales Outstanding (DSO): Ignore It At Your Own Risk

One of the critical keys to managing your company’s receivables is to measure and control your Days Sales Outstanding, the average number of days your ...
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How To Create a Cash Flow Forecast

Predicting future cash flow plays a critical role in maintaining the company’s health, and yet many small businesses have no satisfactory forecasting mechanism in place. ...
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Accounts Receivable Turnover Ratio: Use, Formula + Calculator

Calculate the accounts receivable turnover ratio by dividing net credit sales by average accounts receivable to measure how quickly a business collects revenue from customers.
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Accounts Receivables: Leveraging Credit Policies to Improve Liquidity

Overdue receivables obviously have a major impact on your company’s cash flow. If you don’t have a clear, detailed, firm credit policy in place, expect ...
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Issuance Of Corporate Lines Of Credit Sinks To Its Lowest Level Since 1993

New issuance of syndicated, revolving lines of credit dropped 28% by dollar volume in 2009, according to data from Reuters Loan Pricing, as companies shifted ...
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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