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What to Expect from a Part-Time CFO The idea of hiring even a part-time CFO may seem to some SMEs a bit OTT—like paying Quentin Tarantino to make a 90-second home page video or booking Wembley Stadium for the company’s five-a-side friendly football match. But for companies whose ambition is to get into and survive […]

What A Finance Director Can Do for Your Company You might think a Finance Director’s role is confined to traditional finance activities, but today’s CFO can do so much more than count beans. In the past, an CFO’s responsibilities might have been confined to high-level accounting such as providing timely financial statements and monthly management […]

Why Hollywood Actors Should Get Training from FDs You shouldn’t be surprised to discover that Meryl Streep, Robert De Niro, Hugh Jackman, Gary Oldman among many other Oscar-winning actors and actresses bear a grudge against Finance Directors. It’s easy to understand why. For although the likes of Streep and Oldman have achieved fame, fortune and […]

The Rising Power of AI in Financial Services Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already transforming the way in which financial service companies are doing business. More and more of them are using AI to process information on their customers, cut costs, save time, monitor behaviour patterns, assess credit quality, automate client interactions, analyse markets, assess data […]

Strategically Outsource to Maximise Efficiency and Productivity If you’re looking for a quick way to cut costs, boost efficiency and improve productivity then consider outsourcing one or more of your business’ support processes. Outsourcing has many benefits and can give you a greater competitive edge in your market. It allows you to tap into a […]

What if Bill Hewlett and David Packard had never got out of that famous Palo Alto garage? If they’d stayed a two-person company, we’d likely never have heard of them – and the history of Silicon Valley would have been very different. Instead, at its peak in 2011, Hewlett Packard had nearly 350,000 employees around […]

Managing cash flow is critical to the success of any business. Get it right, and shareholders, creditors, and employees are happy. Get it wrong, and the company could end up on the ropes like Carillion. Cash flow problems can beset even profitable companies, particularly those experiencing rapid growth. So, how do you protect your company […]

Author: Steve Settle MA (Cantab) MBA FCA, Managing Director—Asia, CFO Centre Despite what you may have heard, working on a contingent or freelance basis has many advantages that are just not available to full-time employees. It’s easy to get despondent about your future job security and finances these days with doomsday predictions of the impact artificial […]

Carillion Collapse Shows the Danger for One-Client SMEs The collapse of Carillion, the UK’s second largest construction company, has exposed the enormous risk SMEs take by placing too much reliance on one major customer. The construction company, which employed 43,000 people worldwide and had 450 key public-sector infrastructure projects on its books, went into compulsory […]

Global curator of Big Data: Fancensus.com provides business intelligence to the Entertainment Sector. Specialising and delivering accurate real time analytical data to the gaming and movie industries; by gathering aggregating communication information, monitoring digital retailers and overall calculating industry performance benchmarks, Fancensus.com provides powerful insights into the data analytics which drive success in today’s entertainment […]