FP&A
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FP&A tools in a Telco world
I am conducting research for a Telco client that needs to move off of Excel for its FP&A functions (from monthly financial and management reporting - incl consolidations- to customer and product P/L analysis, ad hoc analytics, to budgeting - incl rolling budgets. They have SEC requirements t…
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Can you explain the difference between Strategic and Non-Strategic suppliers in a distribution-type business? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Using Customer Stratification and Cost to Serve Information in Your Sales Efforts to Maximize Profits" held on October 9, 2012. You can view a video of the webinar and access the presentation here: https://www.proformative.com…
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Any insight on getting money out of Argentina?
We have a number of customers in Argentina that have overdue royalty invoices to our US company. Given the current currency regulations in Argentina, these customers are unable to send money out of country. One option we were given involves buying dollar-denominated bonds from Argentine issuers usi…
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Best Way To Value an IPO?
What do you feel is the most valid way to value an IPO? What do you feel is the most dubious, though the market may love it?
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How to calculate NPV in Excel
Interested in how to do it, what to take into account and/or an example in Excel if you have it.
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Have you heard of Reverse Invoicing? How would you recommend recording it accurately?
A few of our clients have started a practice that they have termed "reverse invoicing". Essentially, they have told us to stop billing them and they pay us directly via the T&E entered into their enterprise system. (we are in the Professional Services industry). We bill on a monthly basis and o…
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What are the pros and cons of listing OTC as a 'pink sheet' company? Also what is the process?
We're a small but growing company looking for a modest financing of $500K-$1M. We are familiar with VC-PE financing options, but think that OTC might be a better path.
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Ideas for a CFO Replacing an excel-based budgeting/planning process?
I am CFO of a cellular network operator in Vietnam. I'd like to replace our current excel-based budgeting/planning process with Adaptive planning or the similar. Does anyone here use AP and give me some assessment on this with regards to Reliability, performance, easy-to-use, useful features etc, e…
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Accounting For Series "A" Legal Fees
Hello, I am the first accountant for a start-up company and had a question regarding the legal fees incurred related to Series A Funding. Should these fees be expensed or offset to the Additional PIC capital account? The company has already issued common stock (mainly to founders and employees).…
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Freight charges to customer - Revenue? or net of expense?
Looking for opinions - do you include the freight charges passed through to customers as top line revenue, or as a reduction of your cost of goods sold? Thanks.
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Online purchasing software to integrate with Quickbooks?
We are a small business (10 employees) across two locations. Right now, I am the only person who can create purchase orders and the approval process is manual. I am looking for an online solution that would allow several users to create purchase orders, send them on for approval electronically and …
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Calculating recognized revenue plus the change in deferred revenue for a quarterly report
We are building a product that pulls public company data automatically into an analysis spreadsheet, with certain calculations done automatically. One of the calculations is recognized revenue plus the change in deferred revenue, which is used as a proxy for bookings or billings for software as a …
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Should salespeople be responsible for overdue receivables?
Does your company sales team's KPIs include collection related metrics, or you leave dealing with overdue receivables to the collection department and credit risk prevention (and then salespeople's bonuses do not depend on payment discipline of their clients)? I have seen companies that used both a…
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Does anyone have best practice ideas on financial narratives?
We are a non profit higher education organization and I am looking for ideas to make the monthly board of trustees financial report narrative more readible and accessible to our trustees. Many are not financially savvy. If anyone has ideas or a website with some examples to send, it would be apprec…
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I need a refresher in computing the present value of a series of monthly payments.
Can you refer me to a reliable website that might provide a tutorial? Also, I need a present value table that will enable me to do this calculation for a term of 35 years or more.
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Corporate Performance Management vs Business Intelligence
Are these the same thing? I understand there are software and systems marketed for managing or in relation to both, but are they really different from eachother? What are the similarities, overlap and differences if any?
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ASC 718 vs IRC 409a – What Are The Differences?
What is the difference between IRC 409a and FASB ASC 718? And for a U.S. c-corp do I need to worry about ASC 718?
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Are there any CFOs willing to share a Private Placement Memorandum Template?
I have a client looking to raise some capital and need a private placement memorandum template.
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