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ArticleFinancial Leadership

Robert Alvarez, Superstar CFO: Consero Helped Clear the Way

By any measure, Robert Alvarez, CFO of BigCommerce.com, is a superstar. Robert and his team have helped BigCommerce.com achieve aggressive sales and financing goals. BigCommerce ...
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How Books Helped Austin’s Children After Flooding

It was early September when the Consero team decided to host a book fair for BookSpring as suggested by our Consero Team member Kristen Bridgeman ...
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CEO / CFO

Will Your Back Office Stunt Your Company Growth?

Your objective is growth: steady, sustainable and accelerating. Can your back office financial operations support this growth without falling apart and adding non-scalable costs? Consider ...
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CEO / CFO

Consero Answers: How To Get Paid in Full

Its one of the most gut-wrenching moments for any business owner or executive (and we have all been there!) – the moment when you realize ...
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CEO / CFO

Consero Answers: Can Your Finance Team Support a Merger or Acquisition?

Organic growth can take you a long way, but any business with its eyes on long-term expansion is going to be drawn, sooner or later, ...
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ArticleReporting

7 Top Financial Reporting Challenges [+ Solutions]

The biggest challenges usually arise from having inadequate people, processes, or systems to produce meaningful reporting outputs.
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ArticleMetrics

4 Metrics to Benchmark Your Finance Function Performance

Measure the ROI and efficiency of your F&A teams using these metrics.
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3 Moves That Don’t Work in Fixing Finance and 1 New Approach That Does

The noted American writer H.L. Mencken famously remarked that for every complex problem there is a solution that’s clear, simple … and wrong. If Mencken ...
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3 Moves That Don’t Work in Fixing Finance [+1 New Approach That Does]

The noted American writer H.L. Mencken famously remarked that for every complex problem there is a solution that’s clear, simple … and wrong. If Mencken ...
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CEO / CFO

What are 4 signs that finance is not providing me value?

If ever there was a time for finance to step up and demonstrate its value to the organization at large, this has got to be ...
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CEO / CFO

CFOs Becoming More Strategic

As the head of a finance organization there is a perpetual battle for your time between tactical issues and strategic initiatives. Tactical  Production of Financials ...
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CEO / CFO

Frustrated with the financial information you receive to support your decision making?

“I have been around long enough to be sure that you don’t know what you think you know regarding product or client profitability until you ...
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Are a Lack of Financial Controls Costing You Money? Take the Consero Performance Assessment

Poor financial controls can create significant waste, fraud, or decreased credit rating – yet it happens to thousands of businesses every year.  A sound internal ...
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Accounting SoftwareArticle

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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ArticleFinance & Accounting

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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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