by Troy Skabelund | Jan 23, 2019 | Business Growth, General Business
Companies more than ever are adopting “lean” mindsets with the goal of lowering operational and labor costs while maximizing expertise. The outsourcing model allows companies to hire talent for only the hours needed to fill a particular role or achieve a goal. This...
by Mikelle Despain | Jan 7, 2019 | Chief Financial Officers, Fractional CFO Services, General Business
How to Hire a Senior Part-Time CFO If your company is looking to elevate your strategy, solve a problem, overcome a challenge, or prepare for a transaction such as raising capital or preparing for an exit, you may be interested in hiring a senior part-time CFO. Senior...
by Shawn Capistrano | Dec 13, 2018 | Business Growth, Financial Forecasting, Financial Strategy, Financial Systems, General Business
One Big Budgeting Mistake You’re Probably MakingA budget-first mindset not only wastes time and resources but also often results in an unrealistic and/or inaccurate budget. TALK TO A CFO TODAY It’s a time-old Q4 tradition—lengthy planning cycles consisting of sitting...
by Bradford Pack | Sep 12, 2018 | Business Growth, Financial Strategy, General Business
The impressiveness of the Add-On Model is made clear every time we run out of lives on Candy Crush Saga. Would we like to add more lives for 99 cents? In a weak moment, or (more likely) a repeated series of weak moments, the answer is yes; we want more lives. Or at...
by Michael Flint | Sep 9, 2018 | Financial Strategy, General Business
Prior to the 1960’s, economists like Peter Drucker thought strategy was largely about competition on price. Since then, a whole new set of ideas have been presented and studied, including Porter’s Five Forces, among others. These new concepts introduced extremely...
by Jerry Vance | Feb 6, 2016 | General Business
3 Economic Lessons from World Events Finance is useful in large part because of its ability to convert qualitative principles into quantitative dollar amounts. In a cost/benefit analysis a financial analyst converts both cost and benefit into a discounted cash flow...
