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How Does Your Finance Function Stack Up? 4 Indispensable Metrics

December 12, 2011

Ask the CEO or CFO of any small or midsize business if there are ways they could improve their finance function, and chances are you’ll ...

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CEO / CFO

3 Moves That Don’t Work in Fixing Finance and 1 New Approach That Does

October 12, 2011

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?

July 26, 2011

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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CFOs Becoming More Strategic

February 10, 2011

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?

December 6, 2010

“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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6 Quick Ways to Reduce the Risk of Fraud using QuickBooks

May 20, 2010

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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Consero FaaS: Disrupting the Outdated Traditional F&A Model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