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This is a transcript of a video by Jamie Kipke, CFO of ProVantage Corporate Solutions.

Good afternoon and hello. My name is Jamie Kipke, and I am the CFO for the Rosewood Family of Companies. Our family of companies currently offers a multitude of labor solutions for big-box retailers, whether that is in their store, through support of their operations, such as unloading trucks, cleaning or stocking, in their store conducting special projects such as remodels or new store setups, or in their customers' homes, providing last mile installation services for the products they purchased.

This is a transcript of a presentation by Jim French, Founder & CFO of IFI Professionals.

Recently, we've seen businesses thrown into chaos. They're asking themselves, do I need to redo my plan? Do I have enough cash runway to get me through this? Which assets do I need to protect? Which assets can I invest? How often am I going to need to redo my plan?

Is your business in a state of fear, (like I am in this bee suit) with your hands covered, your face covered, and your body covered? Or do you have a plan in place that's allowing you to execute while chaos swarms around you? One that allows you to remove your gloves so that you can feel and execute, or remove the hood, so you can see clearly, and see what's ahead of you?

Hi, I'm Jim French, Founder of IFI. Today we're recording in front of my beehives, so that we can share with you about how you can execute amongst chaos.

This is a transcription of video by Jim French, CFO of IFI Professionals.

Hi, I'm Jim French, the founder of IFI. In this blog I will share a little bit about us, what drives us, and how, in these challenging times, we can help you not only survive, but take advantage of business insights that will help you know what's working, what's not, and how it's affecting your financial position.

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How to increase efficiency and really understand your profitability drivers.

If your outsourced bookkeeping service or your own team are still all about completing the Monthly Close you are missing the opportunity to gain the ongoing insight to the profitability drivers of your services business.

If you have a McLaren then you should be able to find time to wash it. But when you are out to change the world or run any growing business that’s easier said than done.

As a leader it should be as simple as communicating your vision, delegating to a smart capable team and measuring their progress.

I am a CFO: Why as the CFO am I working late the night before exec meetings struggling to pull together even basic financial and operational reports that I know will get challenged by the other execs?

I am a CEO: It’s always frustrating that before a major decision or board meeting – “My team struggles to pull together even basic financial and operational data in time to help me make decisions based on data that I can trust.

How to evaluate your Financial Operations situation and target key transformation milestones over the next two years against a Maturity Model to create your roadmap to success.

The first step in road mapping where you want to go is to identify where you are now against a relevant transformation model.

It’s that time of the year when plans for rocketing the business to the next level are in place, yet most plans fail to recognize that the launchpad of Financial Operations – people, processes and technology are not in place to achieve those plans.