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Consulting Head To Small Business. Quit Trying

May 18, 2009

Doug Tatum, founder of an Atlanta based consulting firm that "specializes in helping growing companies with finance issues" recently told the NYT Times that small businesses in need of cash should "quit trying", because the credit markets were the worst he had ever seen.

As a B2B CFO®, we prepare our clients for growth and advise them on how to raise cash every day, and in the last 4 months alone I have funded about $2 million in bank loans for 5 of my clients: ranging in size from a $250K Line of credit, to a $2 million mortgage refinance.

B2B CFO® is the nation's largest CFO Services firm focused on emerging growth and mid size companies, and our motto is "Cash we help you get it." So why are we different, and why are we so successful with our clients?

  1. We are highly experienced CFOs with over 3,000 years collective experience, and we form long-term relationships with our clients. So we really understand their businesses.
  2. We have wide experience with arranging bank financing and other types of business investments, and can draw on our partners' collective expertise.
  3. We have developed relationships with bankers of all types from national banks to community banks, we know what a banker needs and wants from a lending relationship, and we can match our clients with the banks most likely to work with them.
  4. We work with our clients to build the financial infrastructure that ensures timely and accurate financial statements and cash flow projections, which lead to profitable growth and enduring value. These are the foundations of the most successful companies, and factors that banks will always be concerned about.
    Frankly, advising growing companies to "quit trying" is not a substitute to providing long term professional advice and unstinting effort that helps our client drive profitable and well-funded growth.

To discuss how to never, never, never, never stop trying contact David Kirkup, Partner with B2B CFO® at dkirkup@b2bcfo.com or 770 845 6897.

 

 

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About the Author

David has over two and a half decades of business experience and is a proven financial management expert.   Working in Europe and the USA, David has served as Divisional CFO at a number of Fortune 500 corporations: including Reuters, Marsh & McClennan, Zurich Insurance and ADP as well as numerous small and mid size companies. As part owner of a small software company, he was heavily involved in the marketing efforts and ultimate sale of the company. As CFO with a national PEO firm he dealt with the credit and financial issues facing hundreds of small business clients. David also spent 5 years in Bermuda managing off shore insurance companies. 
 
A B2B CFO® since 2004, David will quickly identify and present your key metrics to assist in business decisions, and work with you to develop intelligent reports and budgets, help you forecast cash flow and negotiate and restructure your bank debt, while motivating and mentoring staff to help them achieve a high level of performance and professional growth. David's strengths lie in his experience as a hands-on accounting, financial, and operations manager, as well as his knowledge of big picture issues like strategy, financing, growth and turnaround. 

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