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Poor Finance Puts Your Valuation At Risk

One of ways that poor finance & accounting can really hurt your business is when a transaction is taking place. Many things determine the value ...
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4 Ways Finance & Accounting Can Increase Your Company’s Valuation

You’ve launched your venture, survived due diligence and raised initial start-up funding. Congratulations! Now what? A longer-term view would entail building out the infrastructure of ...
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Do You Have Financial Visibility on the Direction of Your Company?

As the leader of your company, it is your job to make sure everyone is moving in the right direction but if you don’t have ...
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How Do You Keep Your Financial Team Aligned With Your Company’s Needs?

It’s a paradox. One moment you have your finance team aligned with your company’s needs and then you decide to make an acquisition that will ...
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Accounting Software

Is Financial Data Disconnected At Your SMB?

Ask yourself the following questions. Do you have multiple, disparate systems for Accounting, Expenses, CRM, etc. that don’t share data? Are you using spreadsheets to ...
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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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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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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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Consero Answers: Why Can’t I Get Good Financial Reporting?

Is your company flying blind? Timely, reliable financial reports are the eyes and ears of effective decision-making. Without good data, it’s impossible to hammer out ...
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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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Accounting Software

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.

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