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Budget Tracking for Nonprofits

The Charity CFO

Budget tracking is the process of monitoring your nonprofit’s income and expenses to ensure they stay within your planned budget. Effective budget tracking is essential to financial transparency, efficient resource allocation, and strategic planning for your nonprofit. But your budget shouldn’t be a “set it and forget it” plan.

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How to Calculate Your Profitability: A Case Study

CFO Simplified

As Iowa State University reminds us, “profitability is the primary goal of all business ventures.”. Business leadership is often responsible for measuring current, past, and future profitability. But what is profitability? This CFO Simplified client watched profitability slowly disappear—until they incurred a $125,000 loss.

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What to Expect When You Hire an Outsourced CFO

CFO Share

What to Expect When You Hire an Outsourced CFO The thought of hiring an outsourced Chief Financial Officer (CFO) has been on your mind, perhaps driven by stalled growth and advice from your mentors. Yet, hesitation shadows your resolve, fueled by fears of wasted money, loss of control, and dependency on a seemingly detached contractor.

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Budgeting tips for resilient organisations??

CFO Talks

As businesspeople, this offers us an opportunity: an opportunity to rethink our business models so that resiliency, profitability, and sustainability are not mutually exclusive.”. Zero-based budgeting. Chris Strauss implemented zero-based budgeting when he was first appointed as CFO of BJK.

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Budgeting for Analysis

CFO Simplified

Nobody likes creating a budget. But budgeting is vital because it’s the company’s plan for the coming year. If the proper analysis is done, then the budget becomes a tool to guide the company forward. Budgeting is a process that may result in multiple iterations before the resulting numbers are acceptable. Evaluation.

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SA Budget Speech 2023: What can CFOs expect?

CFO Talks

By Jeff Ryan , MD of AWCape, a Platinum Sage business partner for HR, payroll and financial solutions South Africa’s Budget Speech for 2023 is an eagerly anticipated event for CFOs and financial leaders alike, as it provides insight into the government’s economic priorities and plans for the year ahead.

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The business value of fractional CFOs

Future CFO

While it is common to find a chief finance officer (CFO) helming a large or multinational organisation, the costs associated with having one in-house can be a hurdle for smaller organisations. According to payscale , the average base salary of a CFO in Hong Kong is HK$1,351,820 per year. Hiring a CFO when money is the problem.

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