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Industry Transaction Overview
Luxury Retailer

This engagement involved the placement of an interim CFO for a $50 million revenue luxury retailer.  The job included managing the accounting staff and the senior creditor relationship. Since this company was newly formed by acquisition, technical and detail work had to be performed, including:  rebuilding and creating the chart of accounts, transferring and recording accounting data from multiple systems, creating new financial reports and the system to manage those reports, organizing and streamlining the cash collections and depository banks and creating and implementing a cash management system.  The assignment was completed in 5 months.

Casual Restaurant The company had been acquired by a private equity group and the assignment was to be the CFO and to analyze the financial performance and the strategic plan.  The casual restaurant company was $250 million in revenue with approximately 6,000 employees and 130 locations.  The company needed both financial and operational corrections.  CFO 911 improved and managed the financial reporting, both internal to the private equity group, and external to the senior creditor group.  CFO 911 also implemented and managed improvements in accounting information flow, budgeting and cash management.  As the CFO, while managing an accounting department of approximately 40 personnel, CFO 911 also interfaced and helped to implement improvements in the IT department and the operating and marketing strategy of the company.  The assignment was completed in 10 months.
Web-based Marketing company This assignment was to be the CFO/COO of a $20 million revenue web-based marketing and advertising company.  CFO 911 managed the accounting, tax and finance functions of the company, including the external financial reporting and the internal operational and management reporting.  In addition, in the role of COO, CFO 911 designed, installed and managed the advertising production system which integrated all aspects of an advertising and marketing campaign, including: sales and marketing, design and production and software and network programming.  The assignment was completed in 8 months.

Real Estate services

A $90 million sales and marketing organization specializing in supporting real estate developers was experiencing rapid growth through both their own efforts and acquisitions.  As their operations became more complex, so did their need for sophisticated financial, accounting and tax subject matter expertise.  CFO 911 provided an Interim CFO and controller to update and integrate their finance and accounting processes including planning and budgeting processes.  CFO 911 also reviewed the client’s IT software and assisted in establishing reporting processes company-wide.
Wholesale Food company A $1.5 million wholesale food processing start-up requested CFO 911 management expertise for strategic business development direction.  Operations and controller support, front office workflow procedures and accounting process development were also needed.  New processes and procedures for more effective reporting were introduced.  From these additions, operational and financial reporting was generated for the owners and management.  Finally, CFO 911 advised  the owners and management on new and improved strategies and business decision processes.

CFO 911’s professionals have broad and deep experience in internal operations, accounting and finance functions and in external capital market transactions.  This experience includes companies at every stage of development in a wide variety of industries.  The following generally outlines the capabilities of CFO 911.  The following is not intended to be a comprehensive list but rather a guideline to the depth and breadth of capabilities available to clients of CFO 911.

Controller Services
Treasury Services
Public Company Services

Financial Advisory Services

Financing Services
Management Services

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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