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How Do You Keep Your Financial Team Aligned With Your Company’s Needs?

It’s a paradox. One moment you have your finance team aligned with your company’s needs and then you decide to make an acquisition that will ...
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Four Challenges Companies Face With Their Finance Teams

This blog post was originally posted on Austin Technology Council’s weekend update on August 19, 2016.Every executive knows that a well-running finance team or finance ...
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3 Poor Financial Processes That Can Lead To Employee Fraud

Just about every company will experience employee fraud in their lifetime. Companies should look at their finance department and understand how they process financial transactions ...
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Is Financial Data Disconnected At Your SMB?

Ask yourself the following questions. Do you have multiple, disparate systems for Accounting, Expenses, CRM, etc. that don’t share data? Are you using spreadsheets to ...
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How Do CFO’s Drive Value?

This blog post was written by Scott Tynes and originally appeared in the Austin Technology Council Blog, entitled Scott Tynes’ Recap of CFO Dinner Introduction ...
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Does Your Finance and Accounting Drive Growth and Profitability?

Most small businesses do not understand what finance should be giving them. It’s that lack of understanding that paints a negative image in their mind ...
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CEO / CFO

Consero Exceeds Fundraising Goal to Educate Orphaned Children in India

The definition of “give” is to place a specified value on something. However, the value of education is priceless – especially when you live in ...
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Four Financial Pitfalls That Derail SMB Companies

Businesses may understand what their clients and customers need, but cannot sustain consistent growth without a complete, continuously updated financial picture. We’ve seen this happen ...
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What’s Important to Finance Executives? Hamburgers.

We call this blog “Burger Wars”. It’s true, finance executives spend a great deal of time on critical measures like improving bottom line impact, reducing ...
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What’s Important to CFOs? Hamburgers.

by Bridget Howard It’s true, CFOs and finance executives spend a great deal of time on critical measures like improving bottom line impact and increasing ...
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Why more private equity firms are developing shared services in finance & accounting

With investment firms still looking to deploy large amounts of money, competition for deals continues to be fierce.  For firms actively looking for new investments, ...
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Consero Named Finalist for ACG Central Texas 2014 Growth Award

The ACG Growth Awards is an annual event that honors market-leading companies who make Central Texas the thriving business community that it is.  These companies ...
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Giving Back to Our Community: Consero Raises $13,000 for The Miracle Foundation

Consero launched a fundraiser in April of 2014 to support The Miracle Foundation, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to help orphaned children in India. ...
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3 Reasons Why Financial Outsourcing Is on the Rise

There is an upward trend of outsourcing in every area of business, supported by an improving economy and rising revenue in the human resource, finance ...
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Three Reasons Why Financial Outsourcing is on the Rise

There is an upward trend of outsourcing in every area of business.  This trend is supported by an overall improving economy and rising revenue in ...
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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