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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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Video Testimonials

Sparksight

When finance & accounting is not your core competency: outsource. Kelly Shores, CEO of Sparksight, leverages Consero’s Finance as a Service model to offload critical ...
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Industry - Professional Services

Collective Group

Learn how the Collective Group overcame turnover challenges with outsourcing.
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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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Consero Global – Software & Services

Consero Global provides companies with more insightful financial information and scalable back office operations. Consero’s fully managed platform of robust software, experienced finance professionals and ...
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Private Equity

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. ...

Infographic: 7 Deadly Sins of Financial Management

Minding the books while gathering new insights from financial data to drive business growth is a struggle for every company.  Here are 7 resolutions to keeping your books ...

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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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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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 ...

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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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 ...

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