Driven Insights

MARCH 31, 2022

Your SaaS business is growing, and each stage brings new finance and accounting (F&A) challenges. As your focus shifts from achieving product/market fit, to building a repeatable sales process, to scaling the business, F&A roles and responsibilities must evolve.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 2, 2023

One key takeaway from Gainsight CFO Alka Tandan’s career journey is the importance of being open to new opportunities and pivoting when necessary. Tandan started in investment banking, transitioned to media, and then vectored again to the SaaS industry. Tandan would assume her interim CFO role only 3 months later.

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Centage

JUNE 7, 2022

Once upon a time the role of CFO was focused on backward-looking data. Along with tracking cash flow and providing timely information, the best CFOs are strategizers, analyzing a company’s strengths and weaknesses from a financial perspective and helping direct decision making.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve worked closely with numerous startup SaaS teams, and a fair share of them don’t have a CFO or even a dedicated finance team. That’s why the role of the finance leader in understanding the financial impact of operational choices—before they’re made—is absolutely essential. Let’s dive in.

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Onplan

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’ve worked closely with numerous startup SaaS teams, and a fair share of them don’t have a CFO or even a dedicated finance team. That’s why the role of the finance leader in understanding the financial impact of operational choices—before they’re made—is absolutely essential. Let’s dive in.

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CFO Thought Leader

JANUARY 27, 2024

This episode of Planning Aces sheds light on the critical role financial leadership and strategic planning plays in guiding companies through turbulent times and the importance of balancing short-term opportunities with long-term strategic planning. Situation: Bowflex saw increased demand for home fitness equipment during the pandemic.

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The SaaS CFO

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The role of finance and accounting in a SaaS company is probably a mystery to most. And, as your SaaS business scales, so must the capabilities of your finance and accounting […]. The post The Role of Finance and Accounting in SaaS appeared first on The SaaS CFO.

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CFO News Room

DECEMBER 2, 2022

With a solid starting position and a reliable financial history, Frances was then able to build out a three-year financial plan including the most appropriate SaaS KPIs, for example, annual recurring revenue and net revenue retention, enabling FISCAL to pitch to potential investors. Frances’ beginnings at FISCAL Technologies.

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Did you know the average base salary for a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) is $397,448 ? With a fractional CFO, you can reap the benefits of a full-time CFO at a significantly reduced rate while still being able to get the same level of financial leadership and insights. In today’s article, we’ll cover: What is a fractional CFO?

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CFO Thought Leader

JULY 25, 2023

exclaims Kramer, whose depth of technical accounting knowledge and range of M&A experiences had made him an invaluable asset for deal-minded CFOs. ” – Chris Kramer, CFO, Axonius CFOTL: Tell us about Axonius … what does this company do, and what are its offerings today? Kramer doesn’t tell us.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In a work-from-home environment, technological-savvy companies like Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) firms often didn't face the same pains of having to migrate to digital platforms to cope with a work-from-home environment. That doesn't mean that, for companies like B2B SaaS firm LogicGate , there wasn't any disruption at all.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 1, 2023

In this Planning Aces episode, host Jack Sweeney and guest host Ben Murray discuss the collaborative organizational effort behind generating business intelligence (BI) and the different places BI resources may reside within a business, with reference to an episode featuring Gary Zyla, CFO of AssetMark. Once again. Now, where have you been?

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Michigan CFO

AUGUST 1, 2021

This frustration always leads to the question: is it better to hire a controller vs. a CFO ? More importantly, what is the difference between a controller vs. a CFO ? Role of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) A CFO provides financial leadership for your company. This is more than a simple difference in language.

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VCFO

JANUARY 18, 2024

Businesses that regularly contend with deferred revenue include subscription- or license-based businesses (like SaaS organizations or content streaming services), construction, professional services, or property management firms issuing rental agreements. None of these are phrases a CEO or business owner wants to hear.

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CFO Thought Leader

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Of the different acquisitions with which Jason Leet became involved at ExactTarget of Indianapolis, Indiana, there’s little question that the seventh was the most impactful on his finance career. In 2013, ExactTarget became not only the largest company that tech wunderkind Salesforce had ever acquired but also the first publicly traded one.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Reporting the Future In today’s highly volatile business climate, the job of the CFO is more challenging than ever. Reporting the Future In today’s highly volatile business climate, the job of the CFO is more challenging than ever. Successful businesses recognize the importance of financial planning and analysis.

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Future CFO

MARCH 16, 2021

How should CFOs go about digital transformation? Ee Khoon Oon (pictured), Vice President, Asia Pacific, Kyriba shares with FutureCFO audiences how CFOs and the finance function could effectively navigate digital transformation post-pandemic. FutureCFO: What’d be the challenges facing the finance function and the CFO post-pandemic?

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BlueLight

JULY 30, 2020

The financial implication of these decision is critical and the CFO is the executive helping the CEO navigate these decisions. Historically, the CFO role was focused on backward looking information: ensuring on-time and accurate financial reporting. Pre Series B, it’s a part-time role to simply track past financial numbers.

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Future CFO

JANUARY 3, 2021

Lee Thong Tan (pictured), CFO Practice Lead, Asia at Workday shares with FutureCFO audiences why cloud is important for finance post-pandemic. Future CFO: Some surveys indicate that companies expedite their digital transformation during the current pandemic while the finance function is interested in tech like RPA and e-invoicing.

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CFO Thought Leader

APRIL 23, 2023

However, his central role would always center on supplying the answer to the question of whether there was a strong business case for advancing a potential deal. However, his central role would always center on supplying the answer to the question of whether there was a strong business case for advancing a potential deal.

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Centage

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

In today’s highly volatile business climate, the job of the CFO is more challenging than ever. In today’s highly volatile business climate, the job of the CFO is more challenging than ever. Successful businesses recognize the importance of financial planning and analysis. Reporting the Future.

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BlueLight

AUGUST 21, 2020

Their expertise ranged from seed stage start-ups, where the CEO also served as the in-house finance leader, to growth stage companies where an in-house CFO monitored the entity’s current and future financial health. Our model provides you with a CFO and analyst pair to bring a finance presence. Accounting ?—?Many

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Future CFO

JANUARY 2, 2022

Geoff Soon (pictured), Senior District Manager for ASEAN, Snowflake spoke to FutureCFO about the consumption business model, how it would help CFOs with value creation, and how they could work with other internal teams to adopt this model. FutureCFO: What is a consumption business model and why does it matter to CFOs?

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Planful

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

A CFO.com webinar highlighted current developments in EPM technology, the role CFOs should play in evaluating EPM solutions, and tips and recommendations for implementing EPM solutions. CFO Playbook on Performance Management. Mary Beth Findlay of CFO Publishing moderated. What is EPM, and why is it important?

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 30, 2022

Management expects FP&A experts to take a far more active role in decision making, which involves coordination with the entire organization. Management expects FP&A experts to take a far more active role in decision making, which involves coordination with the entire organization. But all of that has changed. ,

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Michigan CFO

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

The software as a service (SaaS) industry is undergoing rapid growth. This trend makes SaaS valuation increasingly important. This thriving market has led to significant competition among investors and venture capital to invest in and acquire SaaS companies of any size or stage of growth. Why Do I Need a SaaS Valuation?

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The Finance Weekly

AUGUST 30, 2022

Management expects FP&A experts to take a far more active role in decision making, which involves coordination with the entire organization. Management expects FP&A experts to take a far more active role in decision making, which involves coordination with the entire organization. But all of that has changed. ,

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CFO Thought Leader

JULY 2, 2023

Such was the path taken by Sapna Kapur, who in 2007—after 4 years with Kurt Salmon and then 4 with BCG—exited management consulting in search of a corporate operations role that would allow her to apply the expertise that she had gleaned from years of serving a variety of corporate clients.

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CFO Share

AUGUST 8, 2023

Here’s a glimpse of typical KPIs tailored to different verticals: SAAS (Software as a Service) Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR): Captures the total recurring revenue expected every month. In today’s dynamic business world, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are vital for gauging success and pursuing the business growth strategy.

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Future CFO

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

From SMEs to MNCs, the role finance plays may vary across these organizations as well as the industries to which they belong. In the case of CFOs , this also means having capabilities to extract information more efficiently and accurately to enhance organization-wide performance. CFO in 2020: Influencing digital innovation.

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Bramasol

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

In previous blog posts, we have addressed the challenges and opportunities regarding digital transformation and the Digital Solutions Economy (DSE) across a range of industries including, software & SaaS , semiconductors , media & entertainment , medical devices , transportation , electronics manufacturing , energy , and utilities.

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PYMNTS

DECEMBER 1, 2017

It’s very similar to how the CFO role is now a very strategic role — the CIO role, too. Procurement is moving in a similar direction into a very strategic role.”. More and more, the best leaders in the procurement space are getting a stronger position internally,” he told PYMNTS in a recent interview. “It’s

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Onplan

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

No longer beholden to an endless directory of spreadsheets and outdated databases, today’s finance teams can use the best FP&A software available to help them compile financial information and make smarter, more strategic business decisions. However, not all FP&A tools are created equal. So, what is the best FP&A software?

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