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Offer to purchase receivable for bankrupt client
Need someone who understands bankruptcy law and how the creditor process works. My company has an old open receivable for 132k for a company which filed for bankruptcy 18 months ago - we are an unsecured creditor. I have been receiving correspondence from several capital financing companies offer…
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Problems With Social Media In The Workplace
I received an invite to attend a seminar. Here is the blurb: "Social media use brings both benefit and risk to an employer. Implementing and uniformly enforcing a social media policy, as well as understanding current state and federal laws pertaining to social media use, is essential for organizati…
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Stock options for consulting work rather than paying cash?
I believe there are special debits and credits for paying a consultant in stock options vs cash...What are the debits and credits if a consultant provides $50k of consulting and gets zero cash but gets $50k of stock options?
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Dealing with employees with negative attitudes. How to change?
I have been a manager for 5 months and have two employees. One of my employees formerly held the position I have now, and downgraded to work part time. He was my boss for 12 years. He likes to work on his own, and not be bothered too much. The other employee is where I need advice. She tells me far…
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What Telemarketing companies are effective finding opportunities for the Consulting CFO?
Interested in the good, bad, and ugly experience using telemarking / lead generation services for CFO organizations.
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Does anyone have a software recommendation for amortizing prepaid expenses?
I am searching for a software that will amortize and produce reports for amortization entries as well as unamortized balances, similar to a depreciation program. Currently we are using an excel work sheet. An recommendations would be appreciated.
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Experiences sponsoring a foreign worker for Green Card?
My company is growing, but we're still quite small with 26 employees. I've been employing a foreign student as co-op/intern for the past year. I love her work ethic and she has proven herself to be very helpful as a business analyst. She's about to graduate and needs a sponsor to become a legal wor…
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Accounting Treatment for NRE
When we are incurring NRE for a customer, do we take that to the Balance Sheet and amortise it over the period of time upon customer issuing PO's? Thanks.
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SOX for non compliant acquired entity
I am the Controller for an entity wirh $150m in sales which has entered into a transaction to be acquired. The acquirer is a SOX compliant operation. The transaction is waiting for certain approvals and will close in 3 months. The acquirer has requested that we begin preparing the groundwork for SO…
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Doing Business In China - Ettiquette, Tips & More Needed
Our company is considering expanding to China; what are the most common mistakes we should avoid?
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Not-for Profit Board term limits?
Our Board has always had term limits set out in the by-laws. After two consecutive 3 year terms a board member had to take at least a year off. I've always felts that this was a good practice and kept the board from turning into a "good-old-boys" club. Our current board is considering doing away wi…
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How to create a quarterly report without financials?
Hi everyone, I am new in doing quarterly reports. I need to do a quarterly report template that does include any financial side. Basically, we are tracking only the achieved tasks in each project that we have. Now we need to show the highlights of each projects that does not include any financial f…
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Consolidating Companies in QuickBooks
We are in the USA and acquired a canadian subsidiary. The canadian company is using Premier 2014 and we have access to their books via the Internet cloud. Our main US company is using the latest QB Enterprise and we need to maintain separate books for now but be able to consolidate the transactions…
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Exclude Depreciation from Internal P&L Reporting?
I prepare an internal version of the P&L for the CEO and all of my division managers. My CEO wants his managers to "get real" about their results, but he doesn't want to see depreciation on the P&L. To him, it's not a "real number" because "...it's not cash". I'm fighting him a bit on this …
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Lean Accounting
I am interested in examples of how others have altered their accounting departments and financial reporting as a result of lean initiatives at their company.
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Invoice Scanning - Anyone use ReadSoft?
We are looking to capture the data from pdf A/P Invoices.We are considering ReadSoft's Invoice has anyone used them? Are you happy with the software? Does it work as promised? Any other insights?
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Would you hire the merely accused?
Would you hire for a senior financial position someone who stands accused of serious financial crimes but has not yet been brought to trial?
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Dysfunctional relationship - CFO - CEO
The majority of the causes for a conflict between CFO and CEO could be on account of disconnects related to governance, operational control, processes & procedures, decisions on new businesses, acquisitions, valuations and authority (or any other reasons) Is such a conflict common and how can t…
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Managing bank debt covenants
I have a CFO search where the client's requirements for experience managing compliance with bank debt covenants seems to be a major hurdle. Clearly an important task, but setting up the systems and discipline for monitoring compliance seems straightforward. What am I missing. The client is a $100 M…
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can anyone share an example outline for a 3 year financial plan
I need to prepare a 3 year forecast. No problem with the quantitative side. I have a 3 year financial model, but need to prepare a write-up to be included in our business plan. I have no experience with this. any help is appreciated. Rr
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Good to Great...Not always
I had an assignment that led me to the Good to Great book by Jim Collins. There is a lot of great research in the book. Here is my question though: Has Jim Collins or anyone else done a book or research project on the demise of Circuit City and Fannie Mae? Both of these entities are considered goin…
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De-centralizated Purchasing
Hello, if you have de-centralized purchasing, how do you ensure purchase orders are completed for non-inventory items? Do you use manual purchase orders? If so, what are the controls you have in place? Do you have preprinted forms? Looking for ways to get rid of the manual purchase orders or create…
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Quarterly Projections of Balance Sheet
Hello, Our Company is in the process of enhancing our bookkeeping and accounting processes. Historically, we have done pro forma bookings and income projections in excel, but now we need to be able to produce quarterly/monthly projections of our balance sheet. While we can probably work to produce …
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Accounting Software for Small Real Estate Development Company
Dear All, I am in the process of establishing my own real estate development business in Brazil. To ensure cost control and demonstrate professionalism right from the beginning, I am trying to avoid Excel as much as possible. As a start-up cost is of course an issue, and access from different locat…
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How to deal with this recruiter?
So a couple of weeks ago I received a connection request from a recruiter on LinkedIn and although there was no more information than the request itself I decided to accept never knowing what it might turn into. Some days later the recruiter wrote to me and asked if I would be interested in a parti…
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