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Many organizations focus heavily on revenue growth but overlook the opportunities hidden within working capital. Small improvements in how cash moves through the business can have a meaningful impact on liquidity, flexibility, and financial performance. Summer provides an opportunity to analyze the areas that are often pushed aside during busier periods: • Do you have clear visibility into cash flow trends and upcoming obligations? • Are payment cycles optimized? • Is inventory tying up unnecessary cash? • Are expenses aligned with business priorities? • Are forecasting processes providing enough visibility? A stronger working capital strategy helps organizations make better decisions today while creating more flexibility for future growth. #SummerFinanceReset #FinanceLeadership #WorkingCapital #CashFlowManagement #BusinessPerformance

Most audit findings on access controls have nothing to do with fraud. They trace back to acquisitions, role changes, and vendor accounts nobody flagged as your company scaled. Left alone, that gap doesn't stay quiet. Access governance is a boardroom issue, not an IT task. Section 404 tests it directly. M&A due diligence and IPO readiness test it harder. And in most companies, finance assumes IT owns it while IT assumes finance already signed off, which is exactly where the exposure lives. Read our latest piece on why identity and access management deserves a seat at your executive table, not just IT's. https://hubs.la/Q04r2Jjy0 #IdentityManagement #AccessManagement #CFO

What's the best thing you can do to ensure budget season runs smoothly? Hear what Bobbie Burkeen, CPA, MBA, CFE has to say.

Summer is the ideal time to strengthen the processes that protect your business before year-end priorities accelerate. Strong internal controls don't just help organizations prepare for audits, they create more consistent operations, clearer accountability, and greater confidence in financial reporting. As businesses grow, processes naturally evolve. New team members join, responsibilities shift, and manual workarounds can become permanent workflows. Over time, those changes can create gaps that increase operational risk. Use this time to evaluate: • Are responsibilities and approvals clearly defined? • Are key financial processes documented? • Does your segregation of duties reduce risk? • Have prior audit recommendations been addressed? • Are upcoming accounting standards being proactively evaluated? Small improvements now can strengthen governance, improve operational consistency, and position your organization for a smoother year-end. #SummerFinanceReset #FinanceLeadership #InternalControls #RiskManagement #Governance

The fastest-growing companies rarely outgrow their strategy first. They outgrow the planning process behind it. As your business becomes more complex, yesterday's budgeting process can quietly become tomorrow's biggest blind spot. Leadership ends up making hiring, investment, and growth decisions using assumptions that no longer reflect reality, increasing the risk of forecast surprises, cash constraints, and missed opportunities to act early. Strong FP&A isn't about updating spreadsheets more often. It's about building a planning process that connects financial results to the operational drivers of the business, creates alignment across functions, and gives leadership an objective view of what's ahead. Read the blog to learn how to recognize the warning signs and build a budgeting process that scales with your business. https://hubs.la/Q04rGq8X0 #FPandA #BudgetPlanning #CFO #FinanceLeadership #BusinessGrowth

Ready for budget season? 👇

If your leadership team has to wait until month-end reports are complete to understand business performance, it may be time to rethink how financial information is delivered. Summer is the perfect time to evaluate whether your financial reporting is giving leadership the visibility they need to make confident decisions. Interactive dashboards can help transform financial information into actionable insights by providing real-time visibility into key metrics, trends, and business performance. Consider whether your dashboards provide clear answers to questions like: • Are we on track to meet our financial goals? • What trends require immediate attention? • How is cash flow performing? • Which KPIs should leadership monitor most closely? The right dashboards don't just present data, they help turn information into action. #SummerFinanceReset #FinanceLeadership #FinancialReporting #BusinessIntelligence #CFO

Budget season doesn't create weak spots in your finance function. It reveals the ones that were already there. A single vacancy in FP&A or accounting can delay your entire planning calendar, and that delay rarely stays contained. It cascades into rushed models, thinner analysis, and board decks built under pressure instead of confidence. CFO turnover and interim appointments are both climbing, which means more finance leaders are facing this exact gap at the exact wrong time. The teams that handle budget season best aren't the biggest ones. They're the ones with a plan for when capacity drops, built before the gap ever appears. Our latest piece breaks down how interim finance support protects your planning timeline, and the signs it's time to bring it in before budget season starts. Read it here: https://hubs.la/Q04r2xlQ0 #FinanceLeadership #CFO #BudgetPlanning #InterimFinance #BudgetSeason #InterimSupport

We're growing! Bridgepoint Consulting is looking for a Senior Manager – Business Operations to join our Financial Operations practice. If you're a collaborative leader with experience managing client engagements, developing high-performing teams, and driving business growth, we'd love to hear from you. This is an opportunity to lead complex engagements, build trusted client relationships, and make a meaningful impact while advancing your career. Ready for your next challenge? Apply today or share this opportunity with someone in your network who would be a great fit. https://hubs.la/Q04r2_bM0

We're excited to welcome two outstanding professionals to the Bridgepoint Consulting team: Serenity Clark, CPA, and Tina Wright! Serenity brings extensive experience in corporate controllership, financial systems modernization, ERP integrations, and process optimization, helping high-growth organizations strengthen financial operations and navigate complex change. Tina is a seasoned finance and operations leader with a passion for improving processes, strengthening controls, and partnering across teams to support smarter decision-making and sustainable growth. Please join us in welcoming Serenity and Tina to Bridgepoint. We're thrilled to have them on board and look forward to the expertise they'll bring to our clients and team!