This post was co-authored by Pamela Hooper and Christine Roach.
As we kick off 2025, here’s a look back at some of last year’s most popular blogs from our team of finance, accounting, HR, and transaction advisory experts:
1. Engaging an Outsourced CFO – 10 Things to Consider
Engaging a virtual or fractional CFO as an outsourced resource is an excellent step for companies that need senior-level finance expertise but cannot afford to recruit or engage a full-time CFO, but it’s important to ask the right questions to set the relationship up for success. Through our work providing teams of CFOs, controllers, and HR professionals to deliver strategic advice and daily support to more than 6,000 clients, we’ve identified several points to consider when engaging an outsourced CFO.
2. Crafting a Strategic Business Exit: Mitigating Personal Risk Through Early Planning
Much like diversifying personal assets to reduce exposure, initiating your business exit planning process early offers a strategic advantage. Through this approach, business owners can actively reduce their risk, enhancing their ability to navigate the complexities of a business sale with confidence and strategic foresight.
3. Generative AI & Business Policies
Generative AI has likely already made its way into your business in some form or another. This article examines what generative AI is, the benefits and risks, and considerations for creating a generative AI policy that positions the technology to work for your business, not against it.
4. HR Involvement Early in M&A
There’s a tendency for leaders assessing M&A deals to emphasize factors such as financials, market conditions, and competitive dynamics at the expense of other elements – including the people picture .M&A deals invite failure when they don’t get HR sufficiently involved in early phases of evaluation or only at a surface level post due diligence.
5. Aerospace & Defense Supply Chain – Supplier Trends
The Aerospace & Defense supply chain environment is shifting. Small- to mid-sized businesses will need to act with awareness and intention to find success. Here’s what they can do to start or solidify relationships in the space and find more success as suppliers.
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6. Due Diligence – Six Imperatives for Getting Deals Done
The pivotal points that contribute to due diligence deal failure are many and span both the financial and non-financial sides of the business spectrum. The proactivity, discipline, and structure that are required to support successful navigation of due diligence processes can initially feel like a constraint to executives and owners, but focused external experts can perform these tasks and provide the knowledge and skills needed to set a business up for a smooth and highly successful transaction.
7. Employee Experience Expectations
Creating an exceptional employee experience is more than a one-and-done endeavor. As people, markets, and the world around us continue to change, so do employee expectations. Here, we examine evolving employee experience expectations and how to navigate them.
8. FLSA & Noncompete Changes – What to Know
Two changes in employment regulations could significantly impact your business operations and compliance status. This article breaks down what to know about proposed FLSA and noncompete changes, how to assess and address their potential impact on your business, and the ripple effect that makes this a prime time for a broader check of your company’s employment practices
9. How You Measure Your Business Matters
Successfully evaluating the value of your business doesn’t rest solely on financial factors. Non-financial factors such as organizational structure, leadership management team depth, culture, and people operations, can matter just as much.
10. The Essential Role of the CFO in the Sale of Your Company
Much of the responsibility for success or failure of selling a business rests on the shoulders of the CFO. This article explores some of the essential elements of a successful deal and the role of the CFO in each of them, including transaction readiness, timing, team, marketing, execution, and post-transaction integration.
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