Many start-ups and small businesses use pre-packaged accounting solutions, such as Quickbooks and Peachtree, which provide reasonable functionality, flexible reporting, and a user-friendly interface for an affordable price. In many instances, the user in a very small business need not even be an accountant to operate his business effectively in a small business environment using such low-end packages.
Businesses grow and change, however, and operations become distributed geographically, multiple lines of business spawn, the company goes international, and leadership is shared. As a business becomes more complex, they need to measure performance by business unit, location, department, and product line, and consolidate financial reporting into a single set of financial statements, along with doing business in foreign currencies. This forces companies to consider more sophisticated accounting solutions than the one that got their business started.
While mid-range accounting solutions continue to exist, the evolution of cloud-based solutions by the major Enterprise Reporting and Planning (ERP) providers have brought the price of large integrated financial reporting systems into the budgets of many Small and Medium Enterprises (SME’s). Often these systems are “sold” without a true assessment of the customer’s business processes and reporting requirements, leaving the customer stunned when the system they just spent a bunch of money on, forces them to adopt the software’s business processes (termed “best practices”), distributes transaction processing to non-accountants, imposes a cultural burden on the company, then fails to deliver even the most rudimentary of financial reports necessary for them to run their business. In many ways, Quickbooks has a more robust reporting functionality and drill-down capability than the systems costing thousands of dollars.
Our practice serves to assist our clients in assessing the system choices, design effective solutions within the system, interface with the vendor’s technical personnel to ensure a successful implementation, and create meaningful reports to provide the metrics necessary to drive the profitability of the enterprise.
Entrepreneurs
We help start- up companies get their books and records established. A couple hours on the front end will save days or weeks, months later when various regulatory reports or tax returns are due.
Established companies
Your reports are always late and amount to a rear view mirror on a humid day. We streamline reporting processes, project income and cash flow forward to get you looking through the windshield, compare your results to the competition, and surface significant implementable trends in your business to allow it to accelerate forward.
Companies in transition
Whether your company is growing or shrinking, your information requirements are changing. We work with companies in transition to meet the growing needs of a thriving business, or downsize redundant or obsolete systems for businesses in decline.
Public companies
Public companies have unique reporting requirements. We work with all your information systems to produce timely and accurate reporting, and through a strategic business partner provide the filing tools which integrate narrative text and informational data, along with built-in XBRL reporting capabilities.
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“CFOs2Go provided us with a Consulting CFO who understood the needs of our business, implemented policies and procedures designed to govern our operations, trained our staff to carry out those policies, and structured our ERP reporting to allow us to view our profitability from many perspectives, as well as understand our financial position and cash flows on a routine basis. We now make informed business decisions that will allow us to achieve our high growth targets for this year and beyond.”Val and Scott Mollahan, Owners and Executive Officers;Insight Resource Group