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Accounting Software

Consero Offers Finance & Accounting Expertise for Every Stage of Your Company

Consero offers comprehensive and flexible solutions tailored to resolve your organization's unique finance and accounting challenges.
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Consero’s Finance as a Service (FaaS) includes a fully integrated software platform called Simpl®.

For growing middle-market businesses, supporting financial operations is tough. You want to make good business decisions, provide the right insight and guidance, invest wisely, and ...
Controls, Governance, Compliance

Consero Roundtable: Security and Controls in the Finance Function

Learn best practices in cybersecurity and what financial systems and internal controls can mitigate risk in the finance function and protect your business.
Finance & Accounting

Beer with a CFO: What finance & accounting mistakes can lead to a lower valuation?

Have you heard about outsourcing a company’s finance and accounting with a Finance as a Service model? It is by far the best way to ...
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Financial Leadership

Beer with a CFO – The top 3 things you need to do to defend a technology investment to your board

  On the recent episode of Beer with a CFO, our own Bridget Howard talked to Lynn Atchinson, former CFO of HomeAway and Spredfast, two ...
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How do private equity firms add value to their porfolio’s finance & accounting function?

Why start from scratch each time you need to establish a finance and accounting function? Plug into a pre-built finance factory. Consero’s Finance as a ...
Metrics

Beer with a CFO: Which KPIs your investors want to see

Tom Kieley, CEO and Co-Founder of SourceDay, sits down with Consero to discuss the most important KPIs private equity-backed companies with recurring revenue models need ...
Financial Leadership

Beer with a CFO: Consero discusses “The Granularity of Growth” with John Gimpert

In this episode of “Beer with a CFO”, Bridget Howard, our Director of Marketing, recently had the chance to discuss the book ‘The Granularity of ...
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Finance as a Service (FaaS): Going beyond outsourced accounting

Consero's solution combines traditional CFO, controller and bookkeeping services with proven processes and integrated software.
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Top challenges faced after your company receives funding

If you’ve recently received funding, then you’re familiar with how challenging it is to provide timely, insightful financial information to your investors. Challenges This could ...
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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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Finance as a Service

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 ...

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