Your Board Says Your Company Needs to be Restructured – Now What?
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Corporate restructuring is the process of reorganizing a company’s management, finances, and operations to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the company and increase shareholder value.  These changes can also help a business increase productivity, improve the quality of products and services, and reduce costs. The overall goal of restructuring…Read More

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Planning a Medical Device Business is Not for the Faint of Heart
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Creating a business plan for a medical device company is a complex challenge, even for the most experienced founder and management team. A medical device business must contend with many of the same issues that face other technology-driven businesses. These include difficult engineering challenges, fundamental physical or biological constraints, complex…Read More

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Managing CFO Relationships with Third Parties: Auditors, Bankers, Insurers, Lawyers, and Investors
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NOTE: This is the third article in a series from Ron Fior about how CFOs can better manage relationships with CEOs, boards, finance teams, and third parties. CFOs are often asked to both vet and select third party consultants when working on key strategic initiatives that range from financings, M&A…Read More

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Understanding AI: How to Perfect Your Prompt Techniques to Improve AI Results
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With artificial intelligence so in the news cycle nowadays, as a CFO I wanted to understand how I could better use AI for applications germane to the finance function (and in general). Recently, I took a prompt engineering course offered by OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Prompt engineering is the process of guiding…Read More

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