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A Strategic CFO: Why a Strategic CFO is a Priority

A strategic CFO will be your course navigator, someone you can trust to be your co-pilot, an expert you can depend on to help make important decisions for your company. Whether your business is an early stage or an established enterprise, a strategic CFO is imperative to a successful company at any stage in its life cycle in order to strengthen a company’s financial foundation, improve performance, and accelerate growth. Companies who forgo a CFO until they “believe the company is large enough” will face roadblocks and red tape that can hinder growth and create obstacles that all companies want to avoid.

Outsourced Strategic CFO as a Course Navigator 

A dynamic outsourced CFO will help the company as they steer their way through growth. Often, this begins with creating and developing a functional budget and financial model for a company. In addition to building a functional budget, but they will also prepare and present actionable information to the management team, board, and investors. All CFOs will understand the changing market conditions like workforce, supply chain, and inflation. With a steady hand on the wheel of the company’s position, they can show the roadmap ahead and ways to navigate smoothly.

Outsourced CFO as a Growth and Exit Assistant 

The strategic CFO helps develop the map for growth and enables a company to evolve. The CFO will not only steer the company but also provide direction and insight throughout all corporate advisory affairs such as valuation, modeling, or due diligence. This could be driving an emerging growth company as they go through a capital raise by doing the waterfall analysis on the cap table, overseeing due diligence, or assisting a later-stage company in preparing for a transaction. By navigating a company through these stages, the dynamic CFO will aid the company in all affairs to either continue to grow the company to prepare for an exit.

The Evergreen Way

Evergreen Advisors’ CFO Practice specializes in managing the accounting needs of emerging and high-growth companies along the various stages of their growth continuum. With our numerous experienced CFO’s, we specialize in all life cycles of a company from an emerging growth company building its infrastructure or a later stage company that needs special assistance Evergreen’s Advisors CFOs will work as a senior member of your management team to provide strategic guidance and oversee day-to-day operations.

Evergreen’s CFO Advisory practice aids in business and financial strategy, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, financial planning, and analysis, and supporting capital raises. Evergreen’s experienced experts are proactive in strategic leadership and will help scale your business through a dynamic decision support strategy.

If you are in need of an experienced CFO, please visit our website at www.evergreenadvisorsllc.com