With the current uncertainty in the market, have you taken steps to prepare for various contingencies? Are you confident in your plan? The following articles from our consulting team may be helpful to you as you review your own checklist: How to Fight Inflation: 14 Tips for Business Owners Inflation remains high despite the best …
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Building Blocks and Best Practices for Driving Business Value Business valuation is not an original or uncommon topic. It is, however, one that business owners and leaders should be far more focused on and reminded of often. That’s because many who start a business don’t always fully consider business value when developing their original strategy …
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Pamela Hooper has joined the vcfo team to serve as a Senior People Operations / HR Consultant for clients in the Austin and Central Texas areas. Pamela is a solutions-oriented senior people operations executive with more than 25 years of experience in human resources. She is a true HR generalist with an extensive background in …
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vcfo welcomes Martha Steele to the Austin team as a Senior People Operations / HR Consultant. Martha is a Senior People Operations Professional with more than 20 years of experience in human resources. She has particular expertise in implementing best business practices, reducing costs, improving recruiting, training, and retention programs, as well as redesigning benefits …
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How Attention to Inventory Can Make or Break Manufacturers A major factor in determining the success of a manufacturer is how well it manages its inventory. When manufacturers have too little inventory, they can’t fully meet customer demands and lose out on revenue as a result. When manufacturers have too much inventory, they trap cash …
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vcfo Austin welcomes Richard Buckley, Consulting CFO, to serve all Austin and Central Texas area clients. Richard J. Buckley is a highly accomplished CFO, overseeing finance, operations, IT, and HR in areas such as domestic and international manufacturing and distribution, SaaS, retail, healthcare, nonprofit, and service companies worth from $2M to $25B. He provides exceptional …
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This article was originally published in the Q1 2023 Edition of Texas CEO Magazine. With product and technology roots established in Greece, Schoox set out in 2012 to build a business around its distinctive learning and development (L&D) platform in a place it had never been, the United States. So how did Schoox move from …
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Challenges Faced by Professional Services Firms (and How a Strategic CFO Can Address Them) Professional services firms are unique entities. For them, hard assets like inventory, furniture, and machinery which are common in many businesses, are relatively few. Instead, their assets are their people. Some may think that makes financial management and strategic planning in …
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Lee Ann James has joined the vcfo, serving the greater Houston, Texas area as a Consulting CFO. Lee Ann is an accomplished consulting CFO with more than 20 years of experience. She is highly effective at executing finance function strategically, establishing financial and risk controls, and overseeing capital structure. Lee Ann’s depth and breadth of …
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Giving back to the community has been a core value for vcfo since inception 27 years ago. Over the years our initiatives coalesced into vcfo gives®. As we close out 2022 and look ahead to 2023, I want to share more about what I consider a critical value to vcfo. By way of background, early …