The benefits of hiring a CFO are plain to see for many business owners.  In terms of services rendered to your company, the CFO primarily mitigates the risks associated with company finances.  Such an individual is therefore nigh invaluable for this purpose.  Further CFO services include financial planning, accounting duties, and making financial information available for owners of a business.  These roles are, again, almost priceless for companies trying to make a profit.  However, despite the importance of CFO services, all businesses must stay within a budget and retain their CFO at a cost that is beneficial to both parties.  The reality of the situation is that, often, the best services cost the most money.  When you run up against the impasse of needing a high quality CFO to manage your funds, but can’t spare the cost of hiring such an individual, it may be time to turn to a radically different option.

The growth of your business is predicated on available funds, and your profit margin, naturally.  To drive yourself to success, consider online CFO services in place of traditional employees.  A third party outside the company can easily fulfill all the normal functions of an in-house CFO.  Indeed, while it may seem that an employee of the company would have more of a vested interest in seeing the company succeed, an online CFO service or representative thereof has the exact same interests.  Quality service rendered means success for your business and success for your online CFO, from which you both stand to gain.  Your success is bolstered by the fact that outsourced online CFO services are dramatically cheaper than procuring and maintaining an employee at your company proper.  Without the burden of additional insurance costs, benefits, vacation time, and sick days, plus the already efficiently priced CFO service itself, you can channel a great deal of newly freed funds back where they need to be: in your business.

Don’t feel put off by not having an accountable party just down the hall; with the ubiquity of internet access, you can have marginally more control of your online CFO service than even a physically present employee.  Both your time and your new online CFO’s time can be spent on transactions that directly benefit each of you and effectively cut the bureaucratic fat of traditional CFO services.  You stand only to gain from such a business relationship.