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175 episodes
Where To Go When The Bank Says No
Banks choose not to lend for a number of reasons, from uncertainty about your business or industry to discomfort about your solvency. Fortunately there are a number of ways to get funding for your business outside of conventional business relat...
Turning the Gears on Better Financials for Manufacturing
Manufacturing involves a complex network of materials, labor, sales, distribution and more. Managing your financials for profitability requires a keen understanding of costs, inventory, overhead and more. In today's episode Tony Spina delivers ...
Decoding The Profitability Formula
Profitability in your business doesn't just happen. It's not inevitable, and it shouldn't be a happy accident. In this episode Byron Kanaley talks us through some of the key performance indicators and essential reporting required to plan for an...
Connecting Touchpoints: Increasing Satisfaction, Efficiency, and Opportunity with Better Systems and Processes
The systems and processes that run your business can consist of spreadsheets to software, notepads to networks. As we start out, we might depend on manual processes, free or cheap services, or essential knowledge that's known only to a few. Pro...
The Essentials to Growing the Top Line
Growing the top line of your business is a matter of succeeding with external strategies or internal strategies. Whether you decide to acquire a company or grow your customer base with aggressive sales strategies, whatever you're doing has to f...
The CEO: Creating The Next in Leadership
In some ways every CEO becomes a brand new CEO again and again as the companies they lead grow. The challenges, people, and business dynamics they must lead through are constantly growing and changing - but many CEO's don't keep pace with the c...
Investigate - Translate - Transform: The Role of Operational Finance
Operational Finance requires the unique skill of investigating how different functions inside a business are impacting other functions and overall company health. It's translating financial metrics into operational key performance indicators (K...
Mastering the 3 Year Plan
Your annual plans - and your longer range, 3 year plan - should be considered a living, breathing entity. Adjustments, calibrations, and refinements should be ongoing. In this week's episode John Chaple of ProCFO Partners walks us through some ...
Annual Planning (That Actually Works): Working From Your Goal
Most companies start annual planning destined for failure. First, they start with a numeric goal as a driver, rather than a measurable target. Secondly, they see the goal as a destination to reach, rather than working backwards from the goal to...
Propel Instead of Pivot: Having The Audacity To Lead, Grow, and Build Your Business
In a year of such uncertainty as 2020, there's been a lot of talk of being resilient. Of hunkering down, getting through, withstanding the changes around every business. Many organizations have been thinking of what necessary pivot is required ...
Owning the Impact: Forward Thinking Leadership from the CFO
Many organizations are used to having a CFO report on financials and key performance indicators but not have a role in driving future thinking about company growth. Many CFOs are used to being the reporter-in-chief or the person who "makes sens...
What's Your Business Worth? 3 Keys to Valuation
Determining value of a company is not the same as knowing the price for which it might sell. Where price can fluctuate for a number of reasons, figuring the value of a company breaks down into three inextricably woven components: your financial...
Financial Transparency: Driving Momentum Through A Culture of Clarity
In many organizations there's a mischaracterization between employees and leadership. Employees think leaders are living in luxury as a company grows or succeeds, and meanwhile leaders are wondering how they'll make payroll because expenses are...
Planning for Profitability: Building a Culture of Competence
A lot of business leaders either treat profitability like it's somehow inevitable - if we sell this much or limit expenses to that much, we'll be profitable. Others are surprised to become profitable, as if it's an accident. The reality is that...
Private Equity: Going from Good to Great in Adding & Creating Value With Better Financial Functions
Private Equity firms have interesting and significant challenges when trying to create and add value to a company, and one of those is having robust financial functions. In this week's episode of Create The Next Aisha Bhana from ProCFO Partners...
The Dance: Financial Management for Not For Profits and Social Enterprises
Not For Profits and Social Enterprises have many unique challenges in financial management, from balancing the mission of an organization with business practicalities, involving people not just dedicated to success but competent in management, ...
Managing the Machine of Manufacturing
This week we start a multi-episode series focusing on different industries and verticals. Gerry Quinn of ProCFO Partners starts us off with an inside look at Manufacturing. From producing paperclips to automating airplane manufacturing, one thi...
Start Up Straight Talk: How To Succeed and Grow More Quickly
The essence of the start-up is the founder's vision, energy, enthusiasm, ideas and innovation. What's sometimes missing is a necessary pragmatism, experience, and expertise to shortcut inefficiencies, avoid mistakes and pitfalls, and clarify di...
Business Runs on Cash Not Profit: Calibrating for Cash Flow
Many business leaders look at their profit and loss and lament, "Why are profits going up but cash balance is going down?" A key reason: Not enough focus and emphasis on understanding and improving ...
Redefining Reporting: Measuring What Matters In Your Business And Understanding Why
Many companies are measuring the wrong things, or measuring incompletely. Income statements, revenue reports, and profit and loss statements are only valuable if you have the context to understand why they're valuable, which means knowing what'...
All Things Are Never Equal: How Your Revenue Model Should Keep You On Course
Many companies build a revenue model at the outset of launching their company and never review it in a meaningful way. Many others focus on the goals and strategies, and the revenue model ...
Selling (Or Buying) Your Business (And Acting Like You Could Tomorrow)
Dan Bartley, a CFO and Principal with ProCFO Partners, joins us this week for an episode of Create The Next dedicated to Transaction Advisory. We'll discuss some keys to selling - or buying - your business, including how to know it's the right ...
I Want To Be A Rock Star: Creating Better Business Goals and the Strategies to Achieve Them
In this week's Create The Next we talk about how creating goals can and should drive the business - from both the owner or leader's purposeful perspective and from the organization's capabilities and willingness to make it happen. Too many goal...
Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper: New Thinking on Familiar Ideas to the CFO
As the role of the CFO has evolved, the impact the CFO has on an organization has evolved too. But the results the CFO should be delivering are as familiar as ever - helping the organization grow bigger. Do things better. Get there faster. And ...
Understanding The Modern CFO: Rethinking The Role
The modern CFO is a strategic advisor, consultant, and leader for business growth, with vision for the ways many aspects of an organization connect. In today's conversation Nelson Tepfer, Managing Partner for ProCFO Partners, talks about how th...