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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 […]

A funny thing happens on January 4th. It’s the day traditionally when people decide the mammoth New Year goals they set with such high hopes well and truly suck. They look in the mirror and see that despite FOUR DAYS of exercising and dieting they are still not marathon or beach-ready. By January 5th, the […]

On the first day of Christmas, my part-time CFO gave to me an introduction to business reporting and advice on creating a business strategy.  On the second day of Christmas, my part-time CFO gave to me more ways to attract money, an introduction to business reporting and advice on creating a business strategy. On the […]

Santa Claus, now in his 1,747th year, reveals for the first time how his part-time CFO helped Christmas Inc. claw back from near-disaster. “Last year we were hit by so many problems. Money problems. Health and safety issues. Capital funding problems. Bad PR. The lot. Fake News “Someone posted a story on Facebook last August that […]

Leaving lucrative and secure C-suite positions mid-career to build a part-time portfolio might seem crazy but many of those who’ve done it say it is one of the sanest decisions they’ve made. Take Michael Citroen, who at 58 years old is a 14-year veteran of the part-time portfolio job world. The former Group Finance Director […]