By Pat Voll In a new small company, all the focus — and funds — tend to be on the development side, where the company’s product or service gets fine-tuned for the marketplace. The finance organization as a support function is often low on the priority list. But as the company grows — and tracking and managing the finances gets more complex — almost all spending will continue to be concentrated on other areas, leaving the finance department to fight over the bread crumbs. Continue Reading … [Read more...]

Information technology decision-making is often driven by the latest buzzwords.  “Shared computing”, “web services”, “service-oriented architecture”, “client/server and distributed processing” have all had their heyday. However, it seems that no IT buzzword has had more visibility in the consumer space than “cloud computing”.  So what is it and is it real? Continue Reading > … [Read more...]

By Theresa Eng | February 19, 2014 When you work in finance and accounting, tough conversations go with the territory. At some point, you may have to tell someone their numbers are off, that they need to rethink a corporate strategy or a new hire, or that some part of a project or the company itself isn’t doing well. Continue Reading > … [Read more...]

By Kelley Wall | February 12, 2014 Keep your employees motivated with stock-based compensation, the thinking goes, and you will be rewarded with high productivity and gains in your company’s growth track. What managers often fail to consider is that if they make mistakes along the way—and we’ve seen many when it comes to equity-based compensation plans—they could actually end up with low employee morale, putting a crimp in the pace of the performance-aligned goals they have set … [Read more...]

Critical considerations before making an IT purchase Amazing new technologies surface every day. While technology marketers do a whiz-bang job at selling fancy features, don’t be too quickly enamored or make decisions in haste. Among many responsibilities, the CFO and executive management team must be a vigilant watchdog over the financial health of the company. Continue Reading > … [Read more...]