3 Ways The Scalable CFO Can Make Your Business Investor-ready

Why Your Financials Matter Now More Than Ever

As a start-up or young company looking to secure funding, the biggest challenge you will face is your financials. Without financial clarity, it is difficult (if not impossible) to attract the attention of investors.

This is where large corporations have an unfair advantage over the little guys.

Financial literacy: With the resources to develop sophisticated financial systems and expertise, they can easily make informed decisions and manage their finances effectively. This also gives them a strong understanding of financial markets, risk management, and strategic planning.

Financial clarity: Large corporations typically have well-established financial reporting systems, providing them with clear and transparent financial information. This transparency helps investors, lenders, and other stakeholders understand the financial health and potential of the business. Making it easier for them to secure funding whenever they need to.

Access to Funding: Large companies have a wider net of funding options which makes it easier to secure financing at more favorable rates–especially because of their financial sophistication and credibility.

This includes access to capital markets, private equity, and other sources of funding.

Strategic Planning: With access to investible resources, these corporations can invest in sophisticated financial data analysis to make informed decisions about investments, expansion, and other business initiatives. Not only keeping them competitive but also crushing their long-term goals.

Risk Management: With access to financial resources and expertise, they can easily manage risk effectively (financial operational, and so on) which is critical for their long-term success.

And this list keeps getting longer by the day.

Meanwhile, to the average small and medium-sized business owner, all this sounds like an insurmountable mountain and quite frankly, a pipe dream.

Which is why The Scalable CFO was created.

To empower small and medium businesses like yours, that often do not have access to sophisticated financial expertise and tools.

For Instance: With the help of our financial inclusion scheme and organizing their financials, our clients have raised over $165 million to date.

Why we care about financial inclusion for SMEs

The Scalable CFO (TSC) aims to empower SME owners with big dreams, with access to tools, expertise, and resources to transform your financials, give you financial clarity, and make your business financially attractive and investor-ready.

Most finance teams within small businesses are not equipped to grow. According to a study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 80% of small businesses survive the first but 70% fail after year 5 when it’s time to scale.?

At The Scalable CFO, we want to change the financial narrative for small businesses.

How Does TSC Tidy Up Your Financials and Make You Investor-ready?

Over the years the Scalable CFO has rolled out several projects and services to help small and medium businesses stay competitive and succeed, even if you’re not sitting on a lot of budget.

• A Marketplace for CFO services – You get access to the region’s only marketplace of vetted freelance finance professionals, or fractional CFOs, who work part-time with your business—performing the same functions as full-time CFO (fractionally) to ease the burden of a salaried contract.

• MADI – The region’s 1st? cashflow management software designed to help small businesses. Allowing you to build a dynamic cash flow forecast.

Typically, cash management software like Agicap is geared towards larger entities in Europe and the US.? In addition, very expensive. That’s why we aim to help smaller businesses in the Middle East and Africa specifically, so they can use this software easily with their teams and receive financial guidance and visibility into their runway,

Madi answers the question; “what happens to my business in the next 6 months if I make X, Y, Z decision today?”

It integrates with your various sources of financial data and centralizes that data to allow you to perform intelligent actions such as requesting insights, evaluating scenarios, obtaining guidance, seeing if they qualify for financing, and making payments (all in an instant), as would a traditional CFO (manually).

• Financial Advisory & Mentorship: The TSC team works with a handful of serious businesses who want to take their business to the next level, taking you through a financial intervention, by helping you organize your finances, train your finance team, and give you professional recommendations to ready your business for audits and attract investors.

This is particularly geared towards founders who realize that to scale or sell their business successfully they need a strong finance team.

Conclusion

Getting your financials organized to scale your business doesn’t have to be a dreadful experience.

Many start-ups, small and mid-sized businesses trust TSC to help them tidy up their finances and get them audit and investor-ready. They have gone on to raise over $165 million.

And that number keeps growing.

Now is your chance to take control of your financials and steer your business to the goals and dreams you’ve always wanted to achieve. And we hold your hand every step of the way.

Click here to begin your exit journey today .