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Discounting Monthly Subscriptions
I have been searching the web aimlessly to find some readable material on how businesses with subscription based services should create and define a discount model. Can anyone provide me with insight or material to study or review to create a sound model or specifications for creating or determinin…
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What statistical forecasting tools, models & techniques would you suggest?
We're raising funds to buy an existing business and expand it. We have the acquiree's records and are attempting to realistically forecast what future sales and budget estimations would be for the acquired and expanded entity. How would you proceed and with what statistical forecasting tools, model…
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Does anyone know of a listing or website resource to locate companies that make a strategic investment in other companies?
I am raising capital, $550K for a small company in the technology space and although I am working the angel capital lists, I believe a strategic investment by another company would create client synergies. The problem is finding the companies that are in the market for such a strategic investment, …
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What are some efficient ways for U.S. multinationals to maintain their books in other countries?
Given the complex set of accounting and tax regulations in each country around the globe, not to mention FCPA compliance, multi-nationals have to resort to a wide range of methods (duplicating their books), manually reconciling accounts, implementing multiple versions of financial systems, etc to…
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How do you stay current on accounting rules?
With so many options available for staying informed, and such an ever-changing regulatory environment, what are your most trusted - and efficient - sources for staying up-to-date? Or do you delegate this?
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When to check credit
Is it common to book orders, place them on hold, and then do the credit check? How are other organizations supporting the business needs for order turnaround time while properly checking and approving credit. If any one can share their process or insight that would be great.
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How do you avoid becoming complacent in your business finances, even in times of success?
Interesting question from LinkedIn
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What is the best rule of thumb for Quarter End cut-off for final sales orders?
Sales often demands 11th hour orders and the demands for revenue and compensation are compelling, but requires Operations resource staffing spikes (and kills the staff as well!). What's the best line in the sand for Order Mgmt?
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Has anyone used Expensify for T&E tracking and reporting?
My company is looking for a scalable expense tracking system. I just read about Expensify https://www.expensify.com/ and it looks good. Does anyone have experience with them or other Cloud-based solutions for tracking and managing employee T&E? It looks like it's free. Any chatch or gotchas? Ha…
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Advice on separate tax and audit firms and pre-audit assistance
We are an early-stage technology firm that has been in business for 3 years. We expect to start earning revenues next year. We have about $2.5mn in annual expenses. We are looking to switch tax accountants from our current provider (too large - costs are too high and not enough service). At the sa…
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Stock Option Exercise on the Grant Date
A private California corporation granted stock options to its executive team that were exercised on the same day as grant (83bs have been filed), with a 4-year vesting period. The exercise was paid for with a promissory note. Does this transaction eliminate the need to record compensation expense…
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If you were reviewing a Business Plan, what aspect will kill the deal?
We've all read Business Plans (or written them). What, in your opinion is a deal killer. One of my favorites is perusing the financials and seeing the Owners compensation plan in the short-term robbing the company of working capital. What's yours?
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Option Buyout
We have an exiting employee who has stock options. We are buying out his vested options, for cash, at just under the 409A valuation price. It's called out as a repurchase - but I think I would treat it as a cashless exercise and deduct tax from the proceeds before paying the employee. Am I missi…
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Financial Management of Asphalt Paving Contracting Business
I may soon be getting involved in an M&A consulting project related to the acquisition of a mid-sized (~200 employees) asphalt paving contracting business that is fully bonded. Revenue mix is approximately 50% public sector, i.e., state/municipal and 50% private/commercial sector. I would lik…
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Do we need board approval (authorization) for our option pool shares?
We have a certain number of common shares authorized by our board. We have that many shares outstanding now if you include our current option grants and remaining option pool. We are now considering increasing our option pool size. Do we need the board to authorize more common shares in order to ac…
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What is a credit card processing "transaction downgrade" and why does it happen? (Webinar Attendee Question)
This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "Leveraging Analytics to Manage the Cost of Credit and Debit Card Payments" held on February 7, 2013. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video of the webinar can be viewed here: https://www.proformative.c…
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Control of Your Vendor Master to Prevent Rogue Spend
Do you control access to your vendor master to prevent "rogue spend"--unplanned/undisciplined buying across the organization?
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The best procurement software for small businesses that integrates with Quickbooks?
We are interested in upgrading our software to include automated procurement. We have multiple vendors for the same products, and each sell them at differing prices. We want a software that will automatically create a PO or multiple POs based on the lowest price. Most importantly it has to seamless…
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