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Exit Readiness: A CFO’s Perspective on Preparation

CFOs need to prepare in advance to ensure a successful exit. Tom Pierce, Managing Director of CFO Advisory Services, shares how to begin.
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CEO / CFOPrivate Equity

Unlocking Growth: How CFO Advisory Services Propel Companies Forward

CFO Advisory Services provide on-demand access to a team of experienced CFOs and financial solutions to help you manage all aspects of your financial department.
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CEO / CFOPrivate Equity

The New Standard for Growth: FP&A and Reporting Practices

Middle-market and start-up companies no longer have the luxury of skimping on a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) and Reporting practice, even if they lack ...
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CEO / CFOPrivate Equity

12 Key Benefits of Hiring a Fractional CFO

Growing middle-market businesses today face a number of financial challenges, from improving cash flow and profit margins to managing inflation and high interest rates. Many ...
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Solving for the CFO: Staying Ahead of Growing Challenges and Demands with Consero’s Advisory Services

As the role of the CFO has evolved in recent years and become both strategic and more complex, the difficulty of sourcing CFO talent has ...
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What’s the Best Way for Early-Stage Private Equity Firms to Handle Finance and Operations?
Private Equity

What’s the Best Way for Early-Stage Private Equity Firms to Handle Finance and Operations?

The rapid growth of the private equity industry over the past decade is breeding a new set of PE fund managers and firm founders. A ...
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Consero FaaS: Disrupting the Outdated Traditional F&A Model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