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Five tips to ensure your portfolio companies are audit ready

If you are the owner of any sort of for-profit organization, preparing for an audit can be quite stressful. An audit is designed to objectively ...
A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act protects internal whistleblowers.

How much is accounts payable costing you?

  Do you have a hunch that the cost of processing invoices is bleeding your bottom line by a thousand cuts? Or do you simply ...
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CEO / CFO

Have you outgrown your accounting solution?

“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This adage serves as a common refrain in criticism of business management practices. Of course, time and again, ...
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CEO / CFO

How CFOs enable growth through technology

In almost every industry, the role of the finance department has changed dramatically over just the last few years. Now there is greater pressure on ...
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Top questions when thinking about outsourcing your finance & accounting

Key questions and answers to better understand the value of Consero's Finance as a Service model.
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3 main concerns when evaluating Finance as a Service

At Consero Global, your peace of mind is important to us. So, let’s discuss some potential concerns you might have when evaluating the Finance as ...
A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act protects internal whistleblowers.
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How to use finance as a marketing tool to increase value with investors

Too often, the work of finance and accounting teams within growing businesses seems perfunctory and inconsequential. That remains true even in the high-stakes world of ...
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Positioning your company for success: key post-series A controls and processes

This guest blog by Consero was originally posted on Shoobx A Series A financing is usually a company’s first round of significant outside investment, and ...
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Accounting Software

When is it Time to Leave QuickBooks?

If you're thinking about leaving QuickBooks, then it may already be time. Companies tend to look for more scalable, automated solutions when growth and reporting ...
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Why better financial data leads to better decisions

As 2017 drew to a close, it was increasingly clear that U.S. business leaders and executives were heading into the new year with a strong ...
A provision of the Dodd-Frank Act protects internal whistleblowers.
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Working With Executive Team on Company Growth & Exit Strategies

This was originally posted by the CFO Leadership Council The process of bringing your company to a place where you can exit successfully can easily ...
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Better FP&A requires a bottom-up approach

The role of an accountant in a corporate setting has long been stereotyped as boring and perfunctory. Likewise, the many roles related to the task ...
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Examining broader effects of new revenue reporting standard

For some companies, time is running out to meet compliance standards for the new revenue recognition rule issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board. With ...

Secondary share offerings change fundraising dynamic

Among the most noticeable changes in modern financial markets is the trend away from initial public offerings and a tendency for private companies to continue fundraising ...
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The future of finance automation

Are robots swooping in to take our jobs? Not exactly, according to recent research on the subject, particularly as it relates to corporate finance and ...

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