Burke & Harris provides outsourced CFO and financial consulting services to companies. They offer part-time CFO services, interim CFO services, and project-based financial consulting. Their areas of expertise include accounting oversight, forecasting and reporting, financing and M&A preparation, and administrative support. They have over 15 years of combined experience working with both public and private companies.
2. Our Mission Burke Harris provides a cost effective, outsourced executive level financial services solution to companies on both an on-going and project basis.
3. Tom Burke Who We Are Over 15 years of finance experience with both public and private companies. CFO experience with mobile music provider, security software vendor and early stage companies in media and advertising. M&A experience: led companies through five acquisitions – four purchases and one sale. Extensive overseas experience, working in both Asia and Europe within several technology sectors including Mobile, Software, and Energy. Companies worked for include: Sana Security (sold to AVG Technologies), Musiwave, Openwave Systems, Excite@Home, and Exxon Mobil.
4. Justin Harris Who We Are 13 Years of experience working with high-growth technology companies in the internet and mobile sectors in both an operating management and advisory (investment banking) capacity Built and managed the general accounting and FP&A functions of several Silicon Valley start-ups Lead a variety of debt, equity and M&A transactions both as a finance professional on the company side as well as serving as a company’s investment banker Specific areas of expertise include online media, ecommerce, internet video technology and mobile (both backend and consumer facing). Companies worked for include Meta Interfaces, BabyCenter.com, eBay, Covad Networks, Mobilitec, MegaPath Networks, Deutsche Bank Alex.Brown
5. What We Do Part-time CFO: for companies that are either too small, don’t have the budget and/or don’t yet have the need for a full time CFO, we can provide an outsourced financial services solution that is both cost effective and size appropriate Interim CFO: for companies that are transitioning between CFO’s, we can serve as the interim CFO providing temporary guidance to the company’s in-house financial resources and transitioning the team between hires Project Based Financial Consulting: for projects such as systems implementations, financings, M&A transactions we can provide temporary expert financial guidance on as-needed basis for the duration of the project Restructuring/Financial Overhaul: for restructurings or financial overhauls we can provide outsourced resources to augment and provide guidance to a company’s internal finance team
6. Areas of Expertise Accounting Oversight Forecasting/Reporting Financing and M&A Preparation Administrative Support
7. Accounting Oversight We work with a company’s current accounting resources to enhance, refine or completely overhaul its basic accounting infrastructure with resource efficient processes Accounting/software systems planning and implementation Cash management Accounts receivable and accounts payable Invoice processing Revenue recognition and deferred revenue guidance Depreciation & amortization guidance Monthly & yearly close – financial statement preparation Tax preparation Compensation plan drafting & tracking Equipment financing and lines of credit Audit preparation Sarbanes Oxley compliance
8. Financing and M & A We provide temporary resources and expert financial guidance in preparation for one-time strategic events such as equity and debt financings or mergers & acquisitions Early to late stage equity financings Short-term bridge financings Venture Debt 409a preparation Section 382 analysis Buy or sell-side M&A support
9. Administration Support We support the management team by taking on responsibility for a variety of company administrative functions Business formation – incorporation Benefits selection and set-up Payroll administration Corporate insurance 401K Taxes Legal & accounting oversight