Your Financial statements are your only scorecard. They record every transaction. Each transaction in turn is as a result of a decision. Having command of your financial statements empowers you to enhance the way that you make decisions.

1. Manage the business by
the numbers
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2. Answer important business questions
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Measure the financial statement impact of past and
future decisions.
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Identify waste and how performance will improve with
waste elimination
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Reduce the RISK of the wrong decision

3. Answer important business questions
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How strategy can be measured in your financial
statement
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Communicate how volume impacts cost
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Know the cost of margin destruction
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Quantify how hungry your balance sheet is

4. 5 numbers integrated into a story
Growth
Profit
Balance
sheet
Value
Cash

5. All within a One Page Scorecard

6. Full What if – Measure how changes impact profit
cash & returns
30 Second income statement balance sheet
and cash budget fully automated
Consolidate periods to project what the full year
will look like

7. Crete a performance
management
discipline

8. Monthly Health Test
Quarterly Alignment
Annual Discipline
GFB Integrated Performance Management System
Benchma
rk
Internal
Perspecti
ve
Annual
Budget
Forecast
Core
competency
alignment
Accountab
ility
Performanc
e
milestones
Expected
year end
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9. Frequently asked questions
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How easy is it to upload data into the
CFO database? Incredibly easy. We
have a simple way that integrates with
Excel and once you have done it once
CFO remembers your mapping for
instant future integration
Do I need an IT department to
manage this tool? No. CFO is
downloaded on your desktop within
60 seconds and instantly ready to use
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How current and how accurate is the benchmark
data? CFO provides a fixed format driven by the
association for benchmarking, thus ensuring
consistency and accuracy.
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What is the training requirement and how
is it delivered?. CFO users are up and
running after the first 1 hour web training
session.
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What does CFO run on? CFO is
developed in Delphi and runs on all
current windows operating systems
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How many CFO users are there? Over
300 different companies and over 150
CPA firms.
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How is the benchmarking integrated with
our financial statements?. Done within the
CFO One Page Scorecard
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Can we tailor the benchmarks for my industry
and segment? Yes CFO provides for
specialized benchmarking . For example you
may part of an Electrical Distribution
Association but you specialize in commercial
large contract work CFO can provide a
benchmark with other business that have the
same specialization
How secure is my data. CFO encrypts your
data before it is submitted to the CFO
benchmark portal. The benchmarks submitted
to users are encrypted, translation is done
inside CFO on your desktop .
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10. What we do
Deliver the GFB software with training
Perform a business health test on your financial
statements with GFB software and training
Deliver the Financial Performance Management
system