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The Key Differences Between a Controller and a CFO in Small Businesses

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They foster trust and secure funding by communicating the company’s financial health, investment opportunities, and risks. They develop and present financial narratives that attract investors and secure the necessary funding for growth. They regularly audit processes to maintain the integrity of financial operations.

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Why Excel Spreadsheets Are Not Meant for Business Budgeting

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Consolidating your financial data across several general ledgers quickly becomes complicated when you use spreadsheets. The lack of controls and security lead to spreadsheet vulnerability. When you begin sharing your Excel spreadsheet across your business, you put your sensitive data at risk for security concerns.

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Best Practices to Perfect Your Month-End Close With Sage Intacct

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Uses one set of financials and multi-dimensional reporting with an integrated General Ledger and real-time views of current and historical data. Allows user-defined workflows to improve efficiency, compliance, and transparency, providing consistent audit trail visibility.

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Two CFO-Level Accounting Tools to Add Value to Your Accounting Services

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Acquiring these advanced types of services, like setting up a permanent audit trail, rolling cash forecast, month-end reporting, and strategic planning, is the secret sauce your potential client needs to know how their money flows in and out of their company (and what their financial future will look like). Know Your Clients Wants and Needs.

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Why Businesses Are Choosing Other Options Over Excel Spreadsheets for Financial Forecasting

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Data Security Vulnerabilities Excel spreadsheets may have more data security vulnerabilities than more advanced solutions. Excel also lacks role-based security, so anyone with the password can see everything in the spreadsheet. Fraud can be challenging to prevent if there is a lack of an audit trail with Excel.

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What is the Financial Consolidation Process in the Accounting World?

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Assets, Liabilities, Equity, Revenue, and Expense accounts) from multiple general ledger systems, and mapping it to a centralized chart of accounts. Undetected errors can occur and spreadsheets don’t provide adequate audit trails regarding changes to financial results in the process.

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Finance Teams: Stop Wasting Time on Manual Account Reconciliation & Automate

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Account reconciliation is the matching and validating of balances in the general ledger (GL) to internal and external sources or other independent calculations to accurately close month-ends and year-ends. For both internal and external sources, each balance has to match the corresponding account in the general ledger.