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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 …
Updated: October 26, 2021

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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 tasks that are outside of his expertise. Consero frees his time so he can focus on his business.

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  • Clean-up work
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  • Accounting software Implementation

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  • Enterprise Accounting Applications

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  • Inability to produce auditable financials
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