As companies grow their operations, finance and accounting outsourcing provides a cost-effective way to optimize their financial management while obtaining business insights that go beyond the information available from basic accounting.
Outsourced Finance and Accounting Services and Benefits
An outsourced finance and accounting team provides the organization with a range of financial management and compliance services, without investing in a full-time team or the supporting technology systems.
Day to Day Finance and Accounting Functions
The outsourced team will handle critical finance and accounting operations such as account reconciliations, preparing financial reports, handling period- and year-end accounting, among other activities.
Day to day, the outsourced team can help the organization enhance cash flow by managing accounts payables and receivables and tracking customer payments.
More Effective Reporting
More importantly, the outsourced finance and accounting team can prepare detailed reports and deploy analytics tools to help management better understand the organization’s performance and market opportunities.
As management focuses on growth and operations, the outsourced finance team can help the organization enhance its financial management as well as compliance with industry obligations.
The organization’s management will be able to access reporting tools and visual dashboards that aggregate data from various financial systems to provide a unified view of the organization’s performance.
Common reports:
- Monthly, quarterly, and annual income statements
- Bank reconciliations
- Cash flow statements
- Financial and operational analyses using key performance indicators
These reports provide a deeper understanding of the market trends driving the numbers, which enables more effective business decisions.
Strategy
The outsourced provider will help management maintain appropriate spending and investment levels with budget development, implementation, and monitoring, as well as forward-looking projections and scenario planning to help the organization adjust as market conditions change or opportunities emerge.
Cloud-based Systems
Similarly, the outsourced provider will use more sophisticated accounting systems and analysis tools than a growing company would likely have on its own. This frees the client from the need to compare, implement and maintain cloud-based software platforms.
In addition, these tools will provide more effective security for the organization’s financial information and customer data than would be available if the organization relied on a series of spreadsheets.
Access to Talent
Outsourcing finance and accounting also helps the organization gain quick access to qualified talent that can support the needs of the team while minimizing recruiting costs.
The outsourced provider handles the recruiting and training and can maintain appropriate staffing levels during peak periods as well as offer continuity during vacation seasons.
Is Outsourcing Right for Your Company?
As your organization grows, you may find that it becomes increasingly difficult to manage your finance and accounting functions and stay compliant with regulations.
One way to ease this burden is by outsourcing finance and accounting functions to a team of experts.
This team can handle critical operations such as financial reporting, period-end accounting, and cash management.
By outsourcing these services, you can free up time and resources so you can focus on other aspects of running your business.
If you’re interested in learning more about how we can help optimize your financial management, contact our team today.
Source: How Finance and Accounting Outsourcing Helps Companies Grow (ssfllp.com)
