Resources

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Industry - Marketplace/eCommerce

Creating Value Out of the Finance & Accounting Function: 5 Common Mistakes PE-Backed Companies Make…And How to Fix Them

Private Equity firms need the Finance & Accounting team to deliver clear insights quickly. But too often, they are re-creating the wheel—implementing software, hiring professionals ...
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Investor - Initial Acquisition

How to Build a Scalable Finance & Accounting Platform for Successful Rollups

For those Private Equity (PE) firms employing a rollup strategy, it’s critically important to develop a systematic, repeatable process to onboard acquisitions quickly and get ...
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Artificial Intelligence

How CFOs Maximize the Value of Software and AI to Drive Better Business Decisions

CFOs today must leverage software and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve their organization’s financial performance, decision-making, and competitive edge. This e-book covers the pathways to ...
Featured Insights & Successes

The ROI of Outsourced Finance & Accounting

The Finance as a Service solution offers growing organizations greater flexibility, efficiency, scalability, and cost savings than traditional F&A department building.
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Whitepaper

Beyond Outsourced Accounting:
How “Finance as a Service” Provides Decision-Driving Insight for CEOs

Strategic finance has become the secret accelerator of high-growth companies where bets are bigger, risks are higher and the outcomes from decisions have lasting impact. ...
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Whitepaper

Outsourced F&A Lets CFOs Stay Focused On Growth

What keeps CFOs up at night? According to a recent survey from The CFO Alliance, most heads of financial operations at businesses all over the ...
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Whitepaper

CFO Leadership in Good Times and Bad

LEADERSHIP IN GOOD TIMES AND BAD: Are principles or styles common to both or are they unique? The modern CFO is hardly ever relegated to ...

Consero FaaS: Disrupting the Outdated Traditional F&A Model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