CFO & Controller Detail
We produce real, measurable results for our clients
To succeed in today’s ever-changing marketplace, it is important for a company to both gain and sustain its competitive advantage. An important ingredient in achieving this edge is an effective CFO function. The role of the CFO has evolved from being a backward-looking financial policeman to a forward-thinking strategist whose main job is to provide advice on a wide range of issues. The required skill set includes an ability to set strategy, lead change initiatives, and prepare value-added analyses to enhance the Company’s value.
Serving as the “watchdog” of finance and business operations, we provide:
Strategic Growth & Management Advisory Services:
Strategic planning at CFO Enterprise is done collaboratively. With your knowledge and our experience, we work together to formulate a strategic path customized to your organization.
- Assist in creating well-defined and measurable goals
- Develop strategic and operating plans
- Identify growth barriers & develop strategies to overcome them
- Develop and implement financial strategies that compliment your business objectives
- Identify and assess business drivers
- Establish appropriate benchmarks to measure performance
- Forecast cash flow
- Assist with obtaining outside financing
- Analyze profitability of products, markets, and marketing strategies
- Evaluate pricing structures and market positioning
Financial Management, Controller, Treasury and Banking Services:
- Manage cash flow
- Create budgets, forecasts, and projections used to monitor progress towards goals
- Prepare and/or review reporting to external parties
- Design and implement accounting systems, procedures, and controls
- Design and implement financial reporting systems
- Prepare meaningful financial statements that managers use to assess progress
- Reconcile detail records of accounts to general ledger
- Monthly or periodic close of general ledger
- Analyze financial trends and ratios
- Evaluate and improve cost management systems and controls
- Enhance internal controls
- Manage and assist with audits by various companies or agencies
- Review, manage banking relationships
- Prepare bank reconciliations and resolve discrepancies
- Negotiate and secure loans and lines of credit
- Manage relationships with External Accountants, Attorneys and Investors
- Manage the functional areas of IT, HR, Legal, Customer Service
- Supervise, train and recruit finance & administration staff
- Merger, Acquisition, Sale and Due Diligence Services
Exit Planning for the Future Transfer of Business Interests to:
- Family, Employees, Partners, Outside Purchasers
- Acquisitions, Mergers & Sales of Business
- Working with Investment Bankers & Venture Capitalists
Services For New and Emerging Businesses:
In today’s dynamic business environment, an integrated financial planning and reporting process and system are essential
- Develop a business plan that you will use as a “road map” to guide your activities towards your goals
- Analyze competitive advantages and market positioning
- Determine your company’s optimal legal structure which balances the trade-offs between control, liability exposure, taxation, and ease of operations
- Project start-up capital requirements and identify possible funding sources
- Evaluate new product and services to determine their profit contribution
- Create financial projections that translate your business plan into benchmarks which you will use to evaluate actual performance
Profit Management:
Do you find yourself so busy working “in your business” that you forget to “work on your business”?