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Outsourcing Your CFO

The 2020s have not been kind to the global economy, with various geo-political situations and the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in the closure of thousands, if not millions, of businesses worldwide. Amid cutthroat competition in a financially uncertain and economically volatile environment, businesses today are forced to make many difficult choices. In a prior publication titled

Remote Working: Friend or Foe?

Remote Working: Friend or Foe?

Amid the ongoing pandemic times, remote working has increased to levels never seen before. Effectively, remote working is the new normal that should be embraced for some of its obvious advantages of giving access to a global talent pool which offers quality resources at affordable costs, availability of workforce in varying time zones, flexible teams and limited legal exposure on labor laws. Co-sourcing and outsourcing are ways to gain the advantages associated with remote working.

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Achieving Process Efficiencies With Mundane Tasks

Mundane tasks are repetitive and, thus, boring, but unavoidable as well. So, this is a necessary evil that must be managed intelligently to ensure organization-wide process efficiency. Automation, delegation, outsourcing and co-sourcing are some of the ways in which process efficiency can be achieved with mundane tasks. Co-sourcing and outsourcing partners can rid companies from the inefficiencies associated with mundane tasks.

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Problems Facing Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises 

SMEs form a major chunk of the US economy, around 44 percent of the total, symbolizing the entrepreneurial creativity and capability of the US populace. However, being an SME is not easy and being a successful one is even more difficult. Outbreak of the global COVID pandemic has further compounded the challenges posed by the prevailing turbulent economic environment for the SMEs, warranting a call for remedial action. However, what cures the larger companies does not necessarily cure the SMEs. The prescription is different and so is the practitioner.

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Is Inflation Adversely Affecting Your Profitability?

While inflation generally serves as an incentive for businesses to profit more from a price hike, increase in cost of input and loss of consumers’ purchasing power leading to a loss in sales revenue can also adversely affect their profitability. Process reengineering, automation, long-term strategic investments and operational cost control are some of the ways a business can deal with inflation-linked adversities. Co-sourcing and outsourcing partners can be of great advisory and technical support with such solutions.

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Business Process Optimization, Automation, and Outsourcing

The documentation of a processes cycle is the first step towards improving business process optimization. This exercise helps map the flow of documents, data, and transactions, identifying the duplications and redundancies. The output helps eliminate process and operational inefficiencies and almost always results in the automation of repetitive tasks.

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Advantages of Outsourcing / Co-Sourcing

With the world in turmoil, businesses all over have been struggling. Most companies are implementing austerity measures to tide over the lean times. However, this is also an inflection point as enterprises realize that agility will be a crucial element of their post co-vid business strategy. And here, outsourcing/co-sourcing can help.