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I may have a need for a Purchase Order Financing arrangement due to a very large customer order. Any recommendations?
Due to a very large customer order, I may need a purchase order financing arrangement since the inventory will be in excess of my line of credit. This need will be in excess of $5 million. If you have experience with this type of transaction, please provide any and all feedback. I'd also like to…
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Recommendations for automating expense reporting
I am consulting to a company that has 50 to 60 expense reports a month which is a burden to process right now. I want a system that is as turn key as possible and of course cost effective. What are the key items that you should consider when evaluating vendors.
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Secondary offering / additional share float questions and referral request
My company went public many years back under different financial leadership. We are on a major exchange. We had some ups and downs and are now having some ups, happily. We are looking at various avenues for raising additional funds to help fuel our expansion. Floating additional shares is under con…
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Business Plans, how often do you dust them off and re-work them?
We as CFO's understand that lenders often times want the companies business plan in addtion to the traditional financials and audited/reviewed financial statements. How often does your management team sit down and rethink the strategic, operational and tatical vision of a company and put it into …
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Do you think CFOs should be using Twitter?
There have been a few recent articles about CFOs using Twitter. Do you think this is a good idea, and how should CFOs use it?
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IPO prep - just starting on that road...
My company just cleared the $30M revenue mark and have visibility to significant growth (continued doubling plus of revenue for the past few years). We can see ourselves hitting $50M before the year is out and being in a good position, knock on wood, to have a successful IPO in mid-2014. I am the C…
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Revolving Credit Facility
If you were to negotiate a new revolving credit facility, which banks would you approach? Would you try to sole source or select an array of banks? What term would you seek? Thank you.
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What's Love got to do with it? Is Your Corp. Value Statement too Personal?
Yesterday I met with an established and reputable company that had an acrostic of its name with each letter standing for one of their principles. The "L" in their name stood for "Love". Does that strike you as too personal a value for a company that wants to project an "all business" ethos? We…
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Any CFO's in the Markting Agency World out there that can exchange best practices?
I am fairly new to the Marketing Agency world and am curious about some operational issues in my agency that seem to be different than other professional services firms. Would love to bend someone's ear w/ similar experience to exchange some best practices. Pleaes feel free to email to set up a ca…
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Best way to source a foreign CFO for Independent sub
I'm helping to recruit a CFO for a HK, Taiwan or Japan company. I won't go into the details here of what I need...but in your experience what are the best resources for finding the right, vetted individual to play such a role in these three regions?
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What are the percentage guidelines for issuing stock options in an early stage, seed money(from a family office fund), life science company?
The investor owns 40%, while the 3 founders own 60%. Thank you.
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What process gives you the most headache?
A) Analysis B) Budgeting C) Consolidation D) Forecasting E) Reporting
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Is my sales team creating multi elements? How should I coach them on communications to customers regarding future products and features?
I work for a SAAS company that is going through a rapid growth period. We sell our product with Sales reps over the phone. Many of our customers (both big and small. new and old) ask us to make specific enhancements to the product. To the extent that we agree to make modifications, have we created…
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looking for expense reporting solution for a multi-national medium sized business
NYC office has about 80 employees, London about 60, Tokyo and Hongkong about 15 each; the other 5 offices all have less than 5 employees. keen to have a global solution to increase expense visibility and implement strong expense controls; so far looked at Concur (too small for them), ExpenseWire (n…
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Asset-backed Lending and Credit Insurance
For those with experience using or currently servicing asset-backed financing lines, what are some of the preconditions, covenants and cash controls your organization has agreed to with its ABL lenders?
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Wackiest idea for reducing expense
What was the wackiest, but viable expense reduction your company implemented?
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When completing form 3921 to report ISO exercises, do you need to complete a separate form for each exercise from the same employee?
For example, I have employees will multiple exercises under the same grant. Since one of the fields on form requires the "Date option exercised" it looks like I need a separate for for each exercise date, but I am wondering if all the exercises for the year could be combined if the exercise price …
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Where do 3rd Party Rebates fall in the determination of Unclaimed Property Reporting to States?
My company processes small rebate checks for a number of our clients. They write the rules, we open an account with their name on it, they fund the account, and we are charged with receiving and distributing the funds based upon the program guidelines. When the program is over any undistributed f…
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Does Host Analytics integrate with Quickbooks?
Hey All, We have gotten pretty deep into the evaluation of the budget software vendors and the question has come up regarding QB seemless intregration with Host Analytics. It does not appear to be an issue with Adaptive and PlanGuru. I was curious if there was anyone in the forum community w…
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