November 10, 2020
Two Elemental Considerations in Scaling Your Software Company
By Dave Chase
The first task of any business is to get out a minimum viable product, leading toward product market fit. Once achieved, we often see companies race to sell, sell, sell. This can sometimes be the righ...
September 10, 2020
Seeing Your Strategy in Your Numbers
By Dave Chase
If you have a business strategy, it should be visible in your financials. Point blank. This may seem like an obvious claim, but surprisingly, not all business owners come to recognize this. Accor...
November 27, 2018
The Best Way to Clean Up Your Financials NOW
By Dave Chase
Clean up your balance sheet today and your other financial statements will fall in line. Messes in the balance sheet make for messes in the income statement and cash flow statement. By cleaning up thi...
October 19, 2018
Artificial Intelligence is the Future of Finance
By Dave Chase
The term ‘machine learning’ has become a buzzword in the past couple of years or so. Investors continually invest in artificial intelligence or “AI” technology each year — between ...
November 02, 2017
Your Best Audit Yet – Insight From the Startup Audit Survey
By Dave Chase
At Advanced CFO we help several companies navigate the occasional audit on an ongoing basis. With a normal full-time financial team, many CFOs and controllers don't experience them often, or ne...
November 18, 2016
How to See and Survive a Cash Crisis
By Matt McKinlay
Cash is the lifeblood of any business, yet too many business owners don’t manage cash effectively. During this webinar, you’ll learn how manage cash, anticipate cash crises before they hit, and ta...
October 31, 2016
Cash Flow Crisis? Don’t Panic!
By Dave Chase
Businesses, whether small or large, strive for steady and solid growth. The ongoing process of an organization’s growth is sustained by several different factors, one of which is the company’s fin...
October 25, 2016
5 Reasons you need a Cash Forecast Today
By Matt McKinlay
I had a business finance professor that often repeated the mantra, “cash is king!” Whether your business is large or small, growing or declining, not-for-profit or for-profit, cash is the lifebl...
May 18, 2016
Business Bootcamp – Managing Cash Flow & KPIs
By JB Henriksen
Recently, one of the leading experts in cash management and measuring operating performance on our team, JB Henriksen, presented to a group of entrepreneurs in the Mountain West Capital Network's ann...
May 12, 2016
A Welcome Expansion of ‘Accredited Investor’ on the Horizon
By Kent Thomas
By a somewhat surprising margin (347 – 8), the US House of Representatives overwhelming approved legislation that would expand the definition of an accredited investor. Under current rules, a person...
July 22, 2015
Stock Options 101
By JB Henriksen
Considering joining a startup offering stock options…or considering offering them to your employees? Not all startups use stock options as an incentive for employees and officers, but if you a...
October 01, 2014
How does the Affordable Care Act (Obama Care) impact my business?
By Dave Chase
I recently sat through a short summarized presentation by some trusted advisors, G&A Partners, about how we should think about the Affordable Care Act and how it impacts our clients. While this ...