The finance function can be so much more than a backward-looking department focused on closing the books. Next generation companies need a strategic finance function that can guide them into the future. Find out what strategic finance really means and how the right technology helps you take advantage of it.

Retention is a golden metric in many areas of a company: In HR, employee retention indicates the quality of leadership and the health of a company’s culture. And in finance, customer retention signals the health and viability of your business. In SaaS businesses, the most informative view of customer retention is through the window of net revenue retention. 

You shouldn’t have to spend multiple weeks per year preparing for board meetings. Unfortunately, that’s the norm for most SaaS startups. But what if it only took 15 minutes to prepare a board deck for your next meeting? There’s a way to make it happen.

A one-size-fits-all financial model template might sound like a good resource for saving time and getting control of your numbers. But it doesn’t exist. What you really need is something flexible that captures every unique aspect of your startup and makes it easy to collaborate with stakeholders—and that kind of financial model can’t live in a spreadsheet.

How do you go from $1.75 billion in funding to shutting down your business six months after product launch? Just ask Quibi. While executives have been quick to blame the 2020 pandemic for the company’s spectacular crash, it wasn’t a freak health crisis that sank Quibi—it was a lack of financial fundamentals.

In this new era of financial technology, it’s essential for businesses to be prepared for the wave of change and opportunity that a growing financial tech stack has wrought upon the world.

ARR and MRR provide certainty into total monthly revenue and is key to understanding the momentum across your entire customer base.

In the 1990’s, the dawn of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) tools promised a new era of connectivity amidst a burgeoning influx of business software. In the 30 years since their invention, much has changed in the world of software—but unfortunately, not much has changed in the world of ERPs.