To stay ahead of the game, every business needs a strong financial leader – one who can establish best quality accounting practices, providing financial planning insights needed to fuel growth.
Apart from the annual reporting, a savvy CFO maintains tax compliance across all functions, while establishing clarity and transparency through periodic financial statements. The CFO should work in concert with the CEO to perform risk assessment and performance monitoring. For growing companies like start-ups and early stage businesses, hiring an in-house CFO or Controller may be cost-prohibitive. Yet without their expertise, it’s impossible to accurately capture financial data.
Astute’s Outsourced and Fractional CFO/Controller Services work as an extension of your financial team. Our objective is to provide you with excellent professional financial advice – just like you would expect by hiring a full-time CFO/Controller.
- Perform financial analysis
- Calculate key financial ratios
- Ensures accurate, timely accounting
- Access to financial records
- Deliver concise, transparent data
- Compare current growth to growth projections
- Assess and improve operational processes
- Identify key and high-risk processes
- Identify tax strategy
- Provide cash flow analysis
- Create budgets and forecasts
| Affordability = Cost Savings | Eliminate Overhead costs. |
| Improved Time Management = Boost Efficiencies | Sharper focus on key functions |
| Third-Party Financial Management (Independent opinion) | Objectivity |
| Better Controls and reduced fraud risks | Processes and controls are monitored by external party |
| Easy to adapt to business growth plan | Expertise with various industries |
| Comprehensive and flexible skillsets | 1. Budgeting and Cash Flow Forecasting 2. Profitability and Management Analysis 3. Design and Implementation of Accounting systems 4. Benchmark Operational and Financial processes 5. Bring in experts when applicable |
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An in-house CFO’s annual salary will exceed five digits. But by outsourcing to a professional accounting firm, you only pay for the services required.
Astute has been instrumental in transforming inefficient accounting practices and systems from a prior firm to make them dynamic and implementing key processes and controls to mitigate risks and transparency in Finance and Operations. Astute has gained our trust and confidence, because we know they have our best interests at heart and have shown on-going dedication to helping our business thrive.
MODE has been working with Astute for just about a year now – it’s the best strategic decision I have made as an owner/ founder of my company. With Astute’s guidance, I have a clear picture of moving MODE forward – it’s a picture based on MODE’s history, facts, and reasonable assumptions. I highly recommend their Fractional CFO services.