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The A Team Blog

The latest news and insights from our team.

Insights

The Role of Budgeting

Budgeting is not just about limiting expenses; it's a strategic planning tool that helps you plan for the future, allocate resources effectively, and maintain financial stability.

Insights

The Perils of “DIY” Accounting

The “DIY” approach to accounting is tempting to many entrepreneurs, but experience shows that it is often a costly mistake. Self-managed accounting can compromise accuracy, increase the risk...

Technology

How Do I Know When I’ve Outgrown QuickBooks?

As your business grows and evolves, you may find that your accounting software is no longer meeting your needs. QuickBooks may have been a good fit at the...

CFO

The Rise of the Fractional CFO: Adapting to a Changing Business Landscape

There has been a noticeable growth in the Fractional CFO industry, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. This growth is driven by various factors, including the changing role of...

Coaches Corner

Top 10 Accounting Insights for Growth and Success

Organized accounting practices facilitate regulatory compliance, financial stability, and support efficient business operations. They provide a solid foundation for smart financial decision-making, cost control, and strategic planning, which...

Insights

The Power of Purpose: Why Outward-Facing Mission Statements Matter in Business.

In this blog, we explore why having an outward-facing mission statement is crucial for engaging Millennials and Gen Z, who are not just consumers and business owners, but...

Coaches Corner

The Role of a Fractional CFO in Strategic Planning

Discover the indispensable role of a fractional CFO in optimizing your company's finances, boosting profitability, and guiding your strategic financial decisions.

Case Study

Achieving Financial Consistency: A Case Study of New Jersey Mid-Market Manufacturing and Wholesale Company

The company’s management team needed accurate and reliable financial data to make informed decisions and prepare timely financial reports. In particular, they sought financial consistency between their ERP...

Accounting Services

Revolutionize Your HVAC Company’s Operations: The A Team’s Solutions

Wage inflation is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses worldwide. It poses a significant challenge to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, as they strive to balance...

Insights

7 Tips For Finding The Right CPA Firm For Your Business

Wage inflation is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses worldwide. It poses a significant challenge to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, as they strive to balance...

Insights

3 Strategies to Offset Wage Inflation

Wage inflation is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses worldwide. It poses a significant challenge to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, as they strive to balance...

CFO

A Team’s Guide to Hiring A Fractional CFO

Are you looking for a C-Level financial consultant without the burden of hiring one full-time? A Fractional CFO, also known as a virtual CFO or start-up CEO...

Technology

The Best Accounting Automation Software: The A Team’s Top Picks

In a nutshell, accounting automation software are programs that can help streamline many of the tasks associated with managing finances, the lifeblood of any organization...

Technology

The Benefits of Sage Intacct Consulting

As a small business, time is often of the essence. Anytime CEOs can save themselves or their employees time, it's an opportunity worth pursuing.

Technology

The A Team Explains Accounting Automation: 5 Ways to Save Time and Money

If you're like most small business owners, you're always looking for ways to improve operational efficiencies so that you can save money and focus on your core area...

Finances

How to Recession-Proof Business Finances

Recessions can have a major impact on companies of all sizes. Luckily, there are ways to recession-proof businesses to keep them afloat through the worst financial storms.

Controller

What Does a Financial Controller Do?

A Financial Controller is a senior-level executive who is responsible for the financial health of an organization. They serve as a link between accountants and Chief Financial Officers...

General

Case Study: Fraud Reduction

Imagine if this happened to you... A communications firm was reeling from a fraud in their accounting department. Their Bookkeeper had charged $20,000 of personal expenses on the...

Lawyers/Law Firms

How To Find The Top Accountants For Lawyers

It is not uncommon for law firm partners to be so focused on helping their clients succeed that they lose sight of the general maintenance required to keep...

Finances

6 Ways to Upgrade Your Financial Knowledge as CEO

It takes a lot of time, work and skills to run a business. To be a successful long-term CEO, you must never stop learning and adapting. An important...

Tips/How to

Practical Guide to Accounting for Small Business

In those crucial first few weeks, months and years of a small business, success is much more obtainable if you’re tracking the way money is flowing in, through...

Finances

Grow Your Business With These Small Business Financing Options

Whether your small business needs funding to stabilize cash flow or to expand, financing could help. Check out what's needed to obtain small business financing, when to seek...

Finances

3 Key Components of Successful Business Finance Management

Business finance management involves handling an organization's finances in a way that supports long-range financial stability and growth. However, three key components create the most effective finance management...

Tips/How to

How to Prepare Year End Reports

While this may seem like an overwhelming, onerous task; the A Team can ease the process of year-end reports, no matter your company’s size or industry, or the...

Technology

Life After QuickBooks

It is a perfect time to assess the current state of your business and how you might fortify it in the year ahead. With the inevitable growth...

Technology

The Most Important Financial Services for Lawyers

Attorneys make complicated judgment calls, analyze facts, and work hard to serve as the best counsel for their clients. However, amid the hard work of taking care of...

Tips/How to

Strategies to Accelerate Startup Growth

Startup founders step into their current market with impressive ideas. Most are looking to disrupt that market with their own idea, product, or service, grow as quickly as...

CFO

How to Find the Best CFOs for Hire

Financing for law firms differs from financing for a lot of other businesses in terms of what types of funding are available and how loans are repaid. A...

Finances

The A Team’s 5 Ways to Create a Small Business Budget

For a small business, some of the most essential financial elements make all the difference in long-term profitability and sustainability. Research indicates that as of 2021, just over...

Lawyers/Law Firms

How to Obtain Financing for Law Firms

Financing for law firms differs from financing for a lot of other businesses in terms of what types of funding are available and how loans are repaid. A...

Finances

Top 10 Financial Wellness Tips

Recently our company President, Dominick Bencivenga, addressed Global Business Leaders at a Gravitas Impact Forum on vital aspects of running a financially sound business. With the current disruption...

General

Thriving in A Virtually Connected Workplace

We’ve made it to November! In a year that has been a challenge for the heartiest of souls, our Team has harnessed resiliency, flexibility and humor to stay...

CFO

What Are Some Typical CFO Responsibilities?

Small business cash flow management is the act of managing the cash that comes into and goes out of the business. Cash flow management is multifaceted, involving monitoring...

Finances

6 Strategies to Manage your Small Business Cash Flow

Small business cash flow management is the act of managing the cash that comes into and goes out of the business. Cash flow management is multifaceted, involving monitoring...

Lawyers/Law Firms

5 Ways to Increase Law Firm Profitability

For a legal practice to achieve success, law firm profitability is an essential area of discussion. The more profitable a law firm is, the more capable the business...

Lawyers/Law Firms

Should Your First Law Firm CFO Be Fractional?

Are you so busy handling client cases that you’re finding it difficult to keep up with the financial and accounting obligations required to run your firm? Consider outsourcing...

Insights

Why Outsourced Accounting Services?

It can be hard to know when might be the right time to bring in accounting professionals. The A Team understands the highs the lows of new business...

CFO

QuickBooks Budgets and a Fractional CFO, The Perfect Combination

Taking steps to grow your small business all begins with accurate budgeting. The A team utilizes QuickBooks Budgets to make this easy and transparent as possible. Want to...

Accounting Services

Controller Management Services

Most businesses retain a bookkeeper to manage their day-to-day cash flow and at least consult with a CFO when they need strategic planning. But there is another essential...

CFO

What Are Outsourced CFO Services?

Outsourced CFO services enable businesses to access high-level financial professionals without incurring the of salary, benefits, and bonuses, typical of a C-suite level CFO. Outsourcing this talent allows...

Finances

Financial Planning for Uncertain Times

It’s time to examine business goals for 2021 and set a path to chart them despite the rocky climate we are in. Are you ready?

CFO

You need a Small Business CFO – And Yes, You Can Afford It!

Without a strong financial foundation, your company wouldn’t exist and might not last. Yet many business owners do not invest in critical strategic financial planning.

Discover how a small...

Technology

Fractional CFOs Are Using Accounting Technology

Accounting Technology solutions have become one of the favorite tools of Fractional CFOs. Accounting Technology allows companies to streamline processes and efficiently convert data into useful information, which...

CFO

Virtual CFO: What are the Benefits of Hiring One?

Would outsourcing an experienced finance leader help your growing business? Expert guidance in cash flow, budgeting, reporting and financial strategy can give companies a competitive edge. However, some...

CFO

Why New Businesses Need a Startup CFO

What does it take to start a company? One of the most important tasks for a start-up business owner is to make sure to have a solid team...

CFO

5 Ways CFOs Can Increase Profitability with Project Accounting

In fast-paced services industries, savvy CFOs are tracking numerous key metrics like net income, current ratios, working capital, cash balance, DSO, gross margins, and more. But the one...

General

The A Team Celebrates 20th Anniversary: Looking back on Two Decades of Teamwork

As it celebrates its 20thanniversary year – The A Team, a top NY based, national outsourced accounting firm reflects on the moments and milestones that led them to...

Finances

6 Financial Mistakes Made By Small Businesses

After 20 years in the financial consulting space, providing services to hundreds of clients, The A Team has seen time and time again the problems that occur when...

Tips/How to

Practical Tips for Your Business

The A Team is committed to maintaining quality Client services and keeping our operations running as smoothly as possible during this difficult time. Here are some practical tips,...

General

Helping Those Who Do Good Do Well

On this Veteran’s Day, we’d like to shine a light on the wonderful work 2 of our non-profit clients do to support those who risk their lives to...

Tips/How to

Hot Marketing Tips to Help Your Sales Sizzle This Summer

As the weather heats up and our thoughts turn to summer, it’s tempting to forget our business and focus on vacations, suntans, and beach chairs. But since cash...

General

The A Team Consulting Named 2019 Best Bookkeepers of New York

New York City-based accounting firm The A Team Consulting has received Expertise.com’s 2019 Best Bookkeepers in New York award.

This is the second consecutive year that the outsourced accounting...

Technology

It’s Time to Marie Kondo Your Books

There’s a reason that spring cleaning is so popular. It’s a time of growth and renewal – and you can finally air out your office without freezing solid....

Technology

Save Time and Money Using Accounting Technology Solutions

Innovation and the today’s rapidly-paced world is pushing organizations to move faster than ever before. Many businesses, start-ups, and nonprofits are feeling the strain.

Here's how to invest in...

Technology

The A Team Consulting Brings Accounting Software Integrations to SMBs and Not-For-Profits

New York City-based accounting firm, The A Team Consulting, announces the recent hire of Keith Miscione, Technology Practice Director to provide tech consulting services and develop proprietary integration...

Technology

Partly Cloudy with a (Slim) Chance of QuickBooks Online

Thanks to revolutionary cloud technology and web applications, the endless days of sitting in a cubical performing data entry, like CD players and DVD rentals, are quickly becoming...

Technology

The A Team Adds Award-Winning Sage Intacct Cloud Financial Management Software to Its Portfolio

NEW YORK, NY – May 31, 2018 – The A Team Consulting, a leading accounting outsourcing firm focused on individualized accounting solutions, today announced a new affiliation with...

The Role of Budgeting

Budgeting is not just about limiting expenses; it's a strategic planning tool that helps you plan for the future, allocate resources effectively, and maintain financial stability.

Read More

The Perils of “DIY” Accounting

The “DIY” approach to accounting is tempting to many entrepreneurs, but experience shows that it is often a costly mistake. Self-managed accounting can compromise accuracy, increase the risk of compliance issues, and consume valuable time.

Read More

The Power of Purpose: Why Outward-Facing Mission Statements Matter in Business.

In this blog, we explore why having an outward-facing mission statement is crucial for engaging Millennials and Gen Z, who are not just consumers and business owners, but active participants in shaping the future.

Read More

7 Tips For Finding The Right CPA Firm For Your Business

Wage inflation is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses worldwide. It poses a significant challenge to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, as they strive to balance between managing employee expectations and maintaining their financial stability. When it comes to preserving a company’s bottom line, it is essential to consider the impact of rising labor costs and develop strategies to address them accordingly.

Read More

3 Strategies to Offset Wage Inflation

Wage inflation is becoming increasingly relevant to businesses worldwide. It poses a significant challenge to companies of all sizes, from SMBs to enterprises, as they strive to balance between managing employee expectations and maintaining their financial stability. When it comes to preserving a company’s bottom line, it is essential to consider the impact of rising labor costs and develop strategies to address them accordingly.

Read More

Why Outsourced Accounting Services?

It can be hard to know when might be the right time to bring in accounting professionals. The A Team understands the highs the lows of new business ownership – especially the growing pains that occur during the first year of incorporation. Here are 5 signs that you might benefit from the support of an outsourced accounting firm.

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