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Beyond the Numbers: Uncovering Hidden Insights in Internal Audits
When it comes to internal financial audits, numbers often take center stage. Financial ratios, variances, and performance metrics are all essential, but true value lies in the insights hidden behind these figures. These insights can reveal much more than compliance or...
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3 Things to Know Before Choosing a Supplier
Choosing the right supplier for your business can be complicated, especially if a large portion of your product comes from a single company. For many companies, supplies are secondary only to labor in their expenses. But choosing the right supplier has even more...
A CFO’s Role in Strategic Decisions
In every company, there are important decisions to be made on a daily basis. Some decisions are mundane and have only short-term consequences. Others are strategic and can affect the company’s performance and profits for years. Too often, these critical decisions are...
CFO Hiring Guide: Analyze Your Needs & Maximize Value
Whether your business is a startup or an established enterprise, you need a strong, agile financial team with a highly competent leader. Some companies think they can get by without a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) until they start preparing to go public. Other...
Financial Expert Roles & Responsibilities
It’s not uncommon to have difficulty differentiating between the main financial professionals. Not only are the names similar, but they are also often unintentionally used interchangeably. However, despite how the titles may be used colloquially, there are distinct...
Choosing the Right Vendors for Your Business
Nearly every business requires supplies and services. To keep your company moving forward smoothly and to ensure optimum profitability, you need to find vendors who are trustworthy, consistent, and correctly priced. An ideal vendor is more than just a supplier; they...
How Much Does a Virtual CFO Cost
A virtual CFO, also called a VCFO or fractional CFO, is a consultant or company that provides CFO services to one or more businesses on a part-time or ad-hoc basis. In the past, a true CFO was usually a highly paid, full-time employee that only large corporations...
What Is Gross Profit and Why is it Important?
Gross profit is one of several key profitability metrics that help companies evaluate their financial health. It is necessary to determine gross profit before you can calculate other important figures such as net profit, EBITDA, and the company’s bottom line. Gross...
20+ Mistakes to Avoid when Selling Your Business
Selling a business, especially in the current economic climate, can be a complicated process. You want to get the best price from the right buyer and smoothly transition the business to the new owner. The process takes a significant amount of planning, negotiation,...
Elements of Financial Forecasting
An essential factor in business management is the ability to discern where the company is headed and what course to chart for maximum profitability. Intuition and guesswork are not sufficient to create a rational roadmap for the future. For that, the process of...
How to Improve Business Cash Management
Cash management is the lifeblood of any business. It can make or break any company regardless of how great the product or service is. In fact, cash-flow related challenges are the reason 82% of small businesses fail. Cash flow is a metric that every company should...
Is Your Business in Athletic Position?
In sports there is a stance known as the “Universal Athletic Position,” or “ready position.” Feet apart, knees bent, hips back, chest forward, arms extended-with minor variations, this stance is favored by athletes as a starting position for many different sports....
6 Reasons SaaS Companies are Choosing Outsourced CFO Services
It’s becoming increasingly common to see companies turning to an outsourced CFO instead of a traditional in-house CFO. This is especially true for the dynamic, high-growth SaaS industry. SaaS companies are finding that outsourced CFOs specializing in SaaS are often...
7 Common Financial Modeling Mistakes
In order to make confident and effective business decisions, company executives need good data. They need to know how the business has performed in the past, where it stands financially right now, and what its prospects are for the future. They also need to be able to...
Basics of Mergers and Acquisitions
There are many reasons why two companies may choose to combine into a single entity. Expanding into new territories, adding technologies, reducing costs, eliminating competition, boosting revenue, and increasing market share are just a few examples. The legal joining...
Questions to Ask Your CPA about Business Tax Strategy
The purpose of a business tax strategy is to maximize income by legally reducing the amount of taxes owed. Because tax laws and government regulations are constantly changing, your tax strategies need to evolve as well. A Certified Public Accountant (CPA) is a tax...
What is the Difference Between a Controller and CFO?
One of the questions we get asked most frequently about financial roles and responsibilities is "What is the difference between a Controller and a CFO? These titles are used frequently--and often interchangeably--in the business world. However, despite the roles...
What to Expect During Due Diligence
Due diligence is the evaluation process used to inform decisions about business opportunities, such as a merger, acquisition, privatization, investment, or other financial transaction. During due diligence, the interested party will request documents, explanations,...
9 Business Finance Lessons We Learned from 2020
If there’s one thing we learned in 2020, it’s that change can happen—and it can come quickly, fiercely, and unexpectedly. In 2020, businesses were met with challenges they could never have predicted, and many had to shut their doors for good. Still others were...
What is an Outsourced Financial Controller?
An outsourced financial controller is a financial expert who helps keep your books up-to-date. They also provide financial reporting and information in a timely manner, and provide outsourced CFO expertise where companies are in need. Controllers can be in-house or...
Comptroller vs Controller Explained
The terms “controller” and “comptroller,” as well as the positions they define, may seem strikingly similar. Indeed, the word “comptroller” is believed to stem from a 15th Century misspelling of “controller.” However, despite the similarity in titles and functions,...
6 Signs You May Need a Financial System Upgrade
How often do you reevaluate your financial management system? For most organizations, the answer is not very often. After all, the ultimate point of a financial system is to put it in place, then rely on it and the people who contribute to it to help things run...
