CFO Counsel Newsletter September 2016 We would like to welcome you to our introductory newsletter! You are signed up because you are friends of CFO Counsel. We offer experienced CFO’s and finance leaders as business partners, on a part time or project basis, to business owners, private equity and family offices throughout Asia. We help you to start, fund, manage or sell your business. Full time experience, part time cost. For more information please have a look around our website.You will find the latest stories and updates from our team every month or so. We hope you find it informative and useful. If not, feel free to unsubscribe – we’ll be sorry to see you go, but we understand. We have some great articles for you this month.Sincerely, Rob Christie
Providing Strategic Advice We provide strategic and business advice, from determining whether you have an investable business, to strategic reviews, from developing appropriate corporate structures, to geographic expansion, from buying a company, to selling out.
How to Sell a Business At some point, every business owner thinks about selling. No matter what stage your business is at, it is never too early to start planning an exit strategy. Achieving a successful sale requires careful preparation.The latest sale we were involved in was an SME in Singapore that had been going for more than 10 years. This construction project management company had over 100 professionals in more than six countries. The lessons learned from this sale also apply to start ups and SMEs.
CFO Counsel is expanding. Now operating in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Singapore, we have an interview with our newest partner in Bangkok and understand a little more about how part time CFO’s work.
Mike draws an analogy of the part time role to co-working spaces and the movement towards shared resources, time and space. Whilst Thailand maybe a little behind the West in this movement, he believes that the time has come for experienced CFO’s to be able to provide their skills to a number of  companies who do not need or cannot afford a full time Finance Director.
