Contract CFO SupportTo help improve your firm’s competitive advantage, your business requires more than simply reporting numbers. Calgary CFO Consulting Services approaches business through the lens of strategy and value-creation. We work closely with the CEO and business heads to find new opportunities and assess their strategic and financial merits and risks. We partner with the CEO, operations and business heads to assess strategic growth initiatives along with providing the management team with real-time operational and financial data and analysis. |
Strategic PlanningKaplan and Norton research suggest that 90% of organizations fail to successfully implement their strategies. Despite the organization’s best efforts to improve corporate performance through strategic planning, shortcomings are common in many areas such as:
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Operational EffectivenessCompanies with the best strategy will not be competitive if you are not as good as what your competitors do. Organizational success requires both the right strategy and “operational effectiveness”. Operational effectiveness is about having functions in the organization work well. These functions are, of course, the organization’s skill sets or ‘core competencies’ and therefore, must fit together and work together to implement the strategy. However, if an organization has weaknesses in their skill set, strategies available to them will be constrained. Strategy may demand capability, but capability in turn constrains strategy. Calgary CFO Consulting Services can help your organization’s continuous improvement initiatives to improve functional performance, and in turn, allow for a more effective strategic capability. |
Performance MeasurementHighly effective performance measurements tell how we are doing, not what we are doing. Despite organizations having a multitude of measures, many organizations are challenged to measure the right things. This often leads to other problems, such as too much time involved in data collection, data overload, and failure to link cause and effect. Does your organizations’s measurement system have any of these other attributes?
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Internal Control DevelopmentEstablishing secure internal controls is a must for organizations, regardless of size. Effective internal controls are required in order to:
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Finance Function SupportCalgary CFO Consulting Services offer expert financial leadership and support during times of significant organizational change. Specifically, these may include the turnover of key members in accounting, ERP implementations, or finance function transformations. In addition, CFO services may be required on an interim or part time basis that will enable your company to improve operational performance and growth. Services offered include:
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Affiliated ServicesCalgary CFO Consulting Services is proud to be affiliated with Jadaly Consulting Ltd. specializing in change management and business transformation. |