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Top tech gadgets every CFO needs in their arsenal

Tech gadgets can certainly enhance our effectiveness. If you’re a CFO, some useful devices can make a difference in your daily life. With so much ...
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Are Poor 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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Consero awarded Sage Intacct President’s Club distinction – third year in a row

This coveted sales and customer satisfaction award is given annually by Sage Intacct to its top-performing channel partners. The award recognizes value added resellers (VARs) ...
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6 Things Private Equity Firms Look for in Companies

When private equity (PE) firms look for companies to invest in or buy, they have a set of criteria in mind. For starters, these companies ...
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What is the Evolution of the CFO?

Certain CFO responsibilities will remain the same for years to come, but others may change rapidly for this increasingly important member of the C-suite. The chief ...
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CFOs Need to Leverage Digital Finance or Risk Becoming Obsolete

In today’s data-driven business environment, CEOs and board members are applying extra pressure on their CFOs to provide them with real-time, data-backed decision support. However, ...
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How Much Does Outsourced Accounting Cost?

The right outsourcing partner can save you between 20-50% of building an in-house accounting team.
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8 Benefits of Outsourced Accounting & Finance Services

Outsourced finance and accounting offers a unique way for growing businesses to competitively scale.
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Reducing compliance risk with better finance systems

Recent court cases, including a particularly consequential Supreme Court decision, have changed the calculus around compliance and fraud reporting. These new developments only bolster the ...
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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 ...
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The expanding role of the CFO

The Austin Chapter of the CFO Leadership Council met recently for a panel addressing industry-wide changes to the role of Chief Financial Officers. Thought leaders from BigCommerce, ...
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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 ...

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