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As 2024 approaches, start-ups and small businesses are poised to adapt and thrive amidst dynamic shifts in the business landscape.
The insights from various sources indicate a period of significant c...
If you’re leading finance in a startup or scale-up, here’s a simple strategy that boosts financial literacy, improves decision-making across teams, and increases your visibility as a strategic leader....
Updated 2026.
For startups and scaleups, extending cash runway is still one of the biggest priorities. Costs are higher than they were a few years ago, fundraising takes longer, and investors expect fi...
The venture capital landscape has shifted, and it hasn’t shifted back.
The period of cheap money is well behind us. Interest rates are higher, fundraising takes longer, and investors are far more sel...
As we steer into the latter part of 2023, the advancements in the world of software and automation improvements is impossible to ignore.
The tools and software available to aid financial management h...
As a Leader, it's vital to have an accurate and flexible budgeting and forecasting process in place.
The rapidity and fluidity of start-ups make the traditional annual budgeting process f
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Ever wondered what a CFO does beyond just managing the finances and the finance team?
As many of you are either Founders or aspiring or new CFOs, it's time we unravel the broader role of a CFO in the...
Cost centre accounting is one of those topics that sounds technical, but the real issue isn’t the mechanics. Most finance leaders know what cost centre accounting is. The harder question is when to in...
Having just completed releasing a podcast that talks quite a bit about working as a Portfolio CFO/FD, I thought I would develop this topic further this week.
There is quite an increase of portfolio C...
In the latest episode of the CFO 4.0 Podcast, Hannah Munro chats with Alysha Randall, a seasoned portfolio CFO at Fast Growth Consulting Limited. Alysha shares her journey from the corporate world to ...
Product Market Fit is critical for startups and Fast Growth businesses, so I wanted to go through Product Marketing Fit ("PMF") in two sections.
First, what does PMF mean for the business as a whole?
There are many different career paths for accountants and many different ways that you can become a Finance Director or CFO for a start-up or fast growth business.
One route is to start at audit firs...
DISCLAIMER: All information included in these blog posts are Alysha Randall's opinion. She is not the reader's accountant, tax advisor, lawyer, CFO or director and therefore should not be considered advice.
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