Funding & Capital Raising
What are the benefits of delegating your business funding, investment and capital raising to us?
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Strategic understanding of the breadth of the business
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Ability to review risks to getting and optimising capital
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Understanding of mitigation strategies necessary to minimise or remove risks
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Understanding of what investors are looking for in an organisation
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Understanding of the process and information required to secure capital or an investor.
FUNDING, INVESTMENT & CAPITAL RAISING
Case Studies & Opinion Pieces
It is generally well understood that to increase your overdraft or arrange a debt facility it is necessary to have a solid profit & loss and a strong balance sheet. However the task of securing capital requires more than being a good business, it requires being a good investment.
The Problem
Being a good investment requires the CFO to look at the business from an investors perspective, identify risks across the business that could negatively impact on the return on investment (ROI) being met, and with the Managing Director put in place strategies to remove those risks from the business. Lower the risk, better the potential of achieving ROI.
How can CFO Evolve help you?
There are really only two senior people in your business that have a broad view across all aspects of your business - the Managing Director / CEO and the CFO.
The Managing Director always has a firm grip on the wheel and intimately knows how all the cogs fit together. Your strategic CFO will also understand your business from the revenue line activities to how key personnel impact on the business, all the way through to the bottom line. What works and what doesn’t. Your part-time CFO is well placed to understand what needs to be done to make ready the business in order to maximise the investment, capital raising or even a sale opportunity.
What are the benefits of delegating your business funding, investment and capital raising to us?
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Strategic understanding of the breadth of the business
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Ability to review risks to getting and optimising capital
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Understanding of mitigation strategies necessary to minimise or remove risks
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Understanding of what investors are looking for in an organisation
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Understanding of the process and information required to secure capital or an investor.
If you think that a virtual CFO or part-time CFO could assist you and your business with preparing for a capital raise or funding please use the quick contact button below.
Additional CFO Services
Our highly strategic part-time and virtual CFOs have experience across a broad range of C-suite services. We are highly capable part-time and virtual CFOs that can guide your business through cash flow management and forecasting through to developing a strategic plan or an acquisition strategy.
Below details some of our core services, but for a more in depth conversation about how we can help you, please contact us for a confidential conversation.
If you are looking for business growth in your business a dedicated part-time CFO could grow your business with a combined approach of strategy and financial insights across process improvement, business efficiencies and business growth through inorganic means such as acquisition or partnerships.
Cash flow is critical to your business' success and survival. If you don’t take care of your business' cash flow, you could end up not having enough to continue running the business.
A part-time CFO could guide you through a cash flow restriction to ensure your business remains cash flow positive.
If you need to provide robust forecasting for one-off funding purposes or wish to use a forecasting model in an ongoing manner that incorporates your profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow to have full understanding on where your business is going and its challenges, engaging a part-time CFO may assist evolve your business to the next level.
Having a clear strategy, strategic plan or business plan are fundamental building blocks to achieve growth. Your business plan needs to expressly state where the business is going, the strategies to achieve those outcomes, who is accountable for the strategy and the timeframes and measures to ensure they are on-track.
At CFO Evolve; our part-time CFOs build your company a strategic plan or business plan that works.
There are risks associated with many parts of business. Anticipating a business risk and uncertainties before they occur and ensuring the mitigation strategies are incorporated in the strategic plan goes a long way to taking the fluctuations out of your business and ensuring you are on a steady growth curve.
If your business requires a business risk review, a part-time CFO can begin the process much quicker than if you hire an internal CFO.
If you are looking to maximise business profit, CFO Evolve could grow your business with process improvement, business efficiencies and focus on the areas of your business to maximise profits, turn wasted hours into productive ones, saving time, frustration and money.
CFOs typically enjoy to teach and they love to help build team, skill sets and overall, the business. CFO Evolve offer their highly experienced team of part-time CFOs for CFO coaching and mentoring purposes to financial teams that have incurred rapid growth, undergoing inorganic growth such as via a merger, acquisition or strategic partnership and require extra assistance and guidance from a strategic financial perspective.
As the business grows and becomes more complex, even if you have the capability to effectively monitor your financial controller and accountant in particular, it becomes questionable whether you have the capacity or if this is taking you away from growing the business. A part-time CFO can provide this oversight of your accounting functions, providing guidance and an expert skill set to ensure the delivery of this department.
One of the milestone developments of your business will be the creation of an advisory board. It could be the next step in reporting and governance or a pre-cursor to a board of directors. Whilst it is important to have an industry specialist and someone strong in governance such as a lawyer, having a part-time CFO member to provide strategic financial advice in the team is key to the success of the advisory board.
Different from classic business planning, the strategic variety (incorporating acquisition, exit and other strategic activities) involves a long term horizon and out-of-the-box thinking. A strategic acquisition plan helps to provide direction and focus. It points to specific and rapid growth plans with results that are to be achieved and establishes a course of action for achieving them.
A good business coaching provider will not only review your business for growth areas but review the ability of the senior team and the leadership. Business coaching provides developmental ideas that can increase performance from the top down and can provide a sounding board for the CEO and Managing Director on business pain points to be addressed.