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Harnessing Your CFO’s Expertise for a Strong Q4 Finish
As the year quickly comes to a close, it’s important to focus on finishing strong and the fourth quarter is a critical time for businesses.
Monica Roca-Quesada Honored at Hispanic Heritage Business Reception
Imagine spending two weeks in Europe. Now imagine being at ease, knowing that your business is running smoothly in your absence.
The Pivotal Role CFOs Play in Protecting Business Legacy
A business legacy is the lasting influence or impact a business and its leaders leave on their industry, employees, customers, and the community after the business has been handed down to new leadership or has ceased operations. It encompasses the relationships built with all stakeholders, including employees, third parties, and the community, an unwavering commitment to excellence, and a strong vision, mission, and values. It’s about the values, principles, reputation, contributions, and cultur
Driving Cash Flow
If you own a business, you probably agree that driving cash flow is essential. Who wouldn’t want to enhance cash flow? Like any machine, many different parts contribute to making it run seamlessly and efficiently. For your business, this means having the components that generate revenue, the elements that boost profit, and the strategies that drive cash flow. To operate successfully, you need to focus on driving cash flow along with increasing revenue and profit.
Driving Profit
You’re a business owner. You naturally want to have a growing and successful venture. To do so, you need to transform it into a money-making machine. Just like all machines, your business has a primary purpose—to make money. After all, that’s really what it all comes down to. We can have all the passion in the world; we can have a great product or service, but if the business is not making money, it will not survive. But the opposite is also true—if it can make money, you’ll have a financially s
Driving Revenue
You’re a business owner. You naturally want to have a growing and successful venture. To do so, you need to transform it into a money-making machine. Just like all machines, your business has a primary purpose—to make money. After all, that’s really what it all comes down to. We can have all the passion in the world; we can have a great product or service, but if the business is not making money, it will not survive. But the opposite is also true—if it can make money, you’ll have a financially s
The CFO’s Role in a Down Economy
With all the turbulence in the economy over the past several years, there have been increasing discussions about our impending down economy. Experts are seeing us head toward (or already in) a period of economic contraction or decline. After all, down economies are typically marked by various negative indicators, including reduced economic growth, decreased consumer spending, rising unemployment rates, a decline in business activity, and rapidly declining stock markets, and aren’t we seeing much
Financial Roles – Putting the Pieces Together
It’s fairly apparent to most business owners that we are no longer in an economy where we can fly by the seat of our pants. The days of coasting are over (but really, never should have begun in the first place). There is simply too much volatility in the economy today, forcing business owners to take a new approach. Yet, financial uncertainty and doubt plague many of them.
Five Ways CFOs Transform Businesses
We talked last month about the traditional functions of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO); namely, tracking revenue, profit, and cash flow, analyzing financial strengths and weaknesses, and proposing corrective actions. These functions allow the CEO to better understand how to increase revenue, decrease costs, and become more profitable overall.
