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You Need To Raise Your Prices Right Now
ProCFO Partners Chief Visionary Officer and Co-Founder Haleh Fardi isn’t mincing any words in this week’s episode. Inflation coming so quickly off the heels of the pandemic is creating cash flow and revenue issues for many organizations. Today ...
Budgeting and Reporting for Non-Profits
Non-Profits have many unique characteristics in how they generate revenue, cultivate “customers” (or donors) and provide services. But they have a lot in common with for-profit businesses too, including the need for accurate budgeting and repor...
Untangling Transactions: Understanding The Flywheel of Business Evolution
In today's episode, we're simplifying what seems complex: Transactions. To understand transactions in business we have to go beyond buying and selling and dive into motivating, contributing and complementing factors. As a comp...
Adversity vs Opportunity: The Importance of Perspective in Business Strategy
Every business in any industry can point to unique challenges it faces. The era we're in presents some of them, from inflation to the pandemic to the Great Resignation and all of their related issues. In today's episode we're calibrating how ad...
The 4 P's of Transition Management: Embracing and Implementing Change
Change management for a company is situational. Something is transforming, and there must be operational events and impacts for change to succeed efficiently. In today's episode, we're discussing the other side of the coin - the psychological p...
Inflation: Impact & Opportunity to Your Business
Every business, customer and consumer is being impacted by inflation. Especially in small and mid-market companies, thin margins are quickly evaporating, and the usual and expected financial structures and models are going through changes. In t...
The Dangers of Siloed Leadership in Business
Siloed leadership is the practice of organizing and managing an organization in a way where different departments are separated and often work independently. In today's episode, Managing Partner and Co-Founder Haleh Fardi discusses how siloed l...
The Art of Organizational Structure: From Founders to Finance and Beyond
"You can learn a lot about how an organization operates and how a CEO thinks when you look at the people or positions who report to the CEO." In today's episode, CFO Mike Durney talks about the importance of an organizational structure built on...
It's Still Rock n' Roll To Me
At ProCFO Partners we talk a lot about the value of our network of CFOs, each with diverse business backgrounds and experiences, and how that collective expertise is powerful for the modern growing business. In today's episode CFO Tom McNiff is...
You Get What You Pay For
You know Return On Investment (ROI) is important - but do you know enough about your investment to properly measure its potential return? On today’s episode, Nelson Tepfer talks about the importance of investing in the right people...
Point of View: Meaning in Metrics
For many small businesses, the financial reporting required isn't all that sophisticated. A few key measurements can help you understand your basic financial health. On the other hand, a lot of reporting is done with a laser focus on detailing ...
Manufacturing Managed: Insights on Growth for Small Manufacturing Companies
Small manufacturing companies play a key role in the economy, providing goods and services and producing products that people use every day. The manufacturing industry is undergoing a major transformation. The days of large, labor-intensive fac...
Engaging Your Employees: Valued and Values
It's taken The Great Resignation for companies to realize what's always been true: Employees need to feel valued, and that their values align with the company's purpose. In today's episode CFO Joan Lavis shares specific, tactical approaches to ...
Begin Again: Recalibrate, Rethink, and Recharge Your Business
It's the time of year again when people are reviewing their goals for the year. But it's also important to take this opportunity to look back and reflect on what 2021 brought, so that we can understand what worked and what needs to be changed. ...
State of the Startup: Funding and Resources for Early Stage Tech Companies
Right now Venture Capitalists are looking for the right startup opportunities to invest in - and they're not all finding what they'd hoped for. In today's episode CFO Kathleen Reynolds what she's seeing in the landscape of early stage companies...
Commanding the Climb: Scaling and Funding for Growth
Companies in early, seed stage funding and operations have dramatically different realities and needs than those in mid-stage or later-stage growth. In today's episode Todd Sloan joins us to explore these stages more in-depth. He discusses how ...
Understanding and Overcoming The Skill Wall
Who's the better employee - the deeply committed, personally invested person who lacks some raw skills, or the highly skilled person who can sometimes be tough to manage? Should you hire for skill, or for "fit"? What does any of that even mean?...
Business Transformation: The People Pillar and The Great Resignation
Managing Director Rashid Khan joins us in this episode to ask important questions and encourage critical thought on one of the most important aspects of your business: your people. Especially in the era of The Great Resignation, how do you enga...
Vision & Values: Defining Your Theme For Annual Planning and Goal Setting
When most business leaders think "annual planning," the mind jumps to conference rooms and white boards filled with numbers and projections. Important stuff, but incomplete for actually creating and achieving your goals. For that, you need visi...
Designing for Success: Dash Design and ProCFO Partners
In today's client story we hear from David Ashen, Founder of Dash Design. In business since 2004, Dash Design is a New York City based interi...
Signs of Growth: Bandwidth and Business with Starlite Media and ProCFO Partners
In the midst of securing several rounds of funding and managing the financial and banking relationship and responsibilities that go with it, Starlite Media CEO Harold Lueken turned to ProCFO Part...
What Got You Here (Still) Won't Get You There: Business is Personal
In today's counterpart to a previous podcast ("What Got You Here Won't Get You There", John Martin returns to talk about how leaders, executives, managers and organizations need to keep up with the changing dynamics around and among them. We ex...
Saving Money Without Spending Money: Profitability With Your CFO
When you hire salespeople, their job is to increase sales and bring in revenue. Your CFO is meanwhile thought to protect the firm's assets, managing financial functions and reporting. No question this is important - but how does it impact the b...
Private Equity in Small and Mid-Markets: Perfecting the Post-Close
Private Equity companies in small and mid-markets face unique challenges from their larger counterparts largely because of resourcing. Rather than robust financial departments, it could be just a handful of people fulfilling financial functions...
Business in Long Island: The Small Town of 3 Million People
Long Island sits in the shadow of Manhattan yet enjoys its own culture and personality in business. This juxtaposition means it's influenced by the business of New York City while maintaining an identity all its own. In today's episode Gerry Qu...