Featured Insights - Creative CFO

Featured Insights

Filter by:

Insights Category
Industry
search

Understand, Achieve and Maintain a Healthy Cash Flow

This is the final piece of our four-part series where we explored high-quality management reports, profit and loss statements and...
Read more

What is a Balance Sheet and How To Use It

This is the third article of our four-part series. The previous two looked at high-quality management reports and profit and...
Read more

How To Use Looker Studio to Create Insightful Business Performance Dashboards

The Creative CFO team recently hosted a Teach Learn Share (TLS) session on Looker Studio, a data visualisation tool. The...
Read more

5 Best Business Intelligence (BI) Tools for Small Businesses

At Creative CFO, we work with a multitude of clients who vary in size, industry, and culture—but most of them...
Read more

AI for financial professionals

Understanding what AI language models and RAG can do for financial professionals As a financial and technology professional and founder...
Read more

Profit and Loss Statements: What Business Owners Need To Know

The Profit and Loss Statement (or P&L in accounting jargon) is arguably the central management statement for most SMEs. It...
Read more

High-Quality Management Reports: Understanding the Basics

Management reports are essential for businesses that want to keep up with a changing, dynamic landscape. They give a useful...
Read more
Understanding Management Reports part 1 of 4 with Creative CFO

What is the Creative CFO Focus Session? 

How do we prioritise our time as professionals using focus sessions Focus sessions are an integral part of how we...
Read more

7 Traits Of The World’s Best Finance Teams

Building the world’s best finance team for high-growth SMEs means bringing together a group of professionals who are more than...
Read more

COIDA: What It Is and Why You Need to Register

COIDA stands for Compensation for Occupational Injuries and Diseases Act. It is essentially an act that ensures no-fault compensation for...
Read more

Business Intelligence: A South African SME’s Guide To Understanding Your Data

Traditionally, business intelligence tools were reserved for well-established businesses capable of affording such solutions. But Creative CFO believes that SMEs...
Read more

Do you have a will?

Death is one of those inevitable life occurrences that affect everyone yet still catches one off guard. In the event...
Read more

Creative CFO Launches New Investment Vehicle to Back High-Growth Small and Medium-Sized Business in South Africa

Cape Town, South Africa Business advisory firm Creative CFO has recently launched Creative Growth Capital, its very own investment vehicle...
Read more

European vs South African Valuations – A Triple Edged Sword

For South African business owners, the economic stability of Europe coupled with business-friendly legislation makes the continent a desirable place...
Read more

Financial Modelling for Business Lift Off

When the ground starts to shake around Cape Canaveral, it is a matter of seconds before a rocket is launched...
Read more

Financial Due Diligence in a post-Covid world

In the world today, a cautious sense of relief is beginning to take hold as vaccines are increasingly being rolled...
Read more

Birkenstock’s Billions: Getting Comfortable with Business Valuations

In an office-based work environment, smart shoes are essential. However, as the recent pandemic has shifted meetings from board rooms...
Read more

Understanding Key Performance Indicators

Key Performance Indicators do just what they say on the box; they indicate how well your business is performing in...
Read more

How cloud accounting made me enjoy the finance industry again

This is a topic that is very close to my heart and I am sharing this everywhere I go. A...
Read more

COVID 19: Working from home tax deduction

While the pandemic has forced many employees to work from home, you may be wondering if you now qualify for...
Read more

Unlocking the secrets of becoming investment ready

Let’s say your business finds itself in a position where an investor has shown an interest in injecting cash into...
Read more

NEW DESIGN – 2020 Tax Filing Season for Individuals

In response to COVID-19, SARS has re-designed the 2020 tax filing requirements for individuals.  Some material changes have been made...
Read more

Financing your Company’s Growth – Ask us how to take your business to the next level

So you’ve been thinking about growing your business and you’re full of ideas. But then you start to think about...
Read more

Tax and Debt Management

Drowning in tax debt? Don’t owe the South African Revenue Service (SARS) the tax liability they say you do? Perhaps...
Read more

Are you Investment Ready?

Introduction For many business owners, their business is an accumulation of enormous efforts over a lengthy period of time: a...
Read more

Equity Incentives – A game changer for SMEs

Whether you are a new startup trying to raise seed capital, determining how to allocate the company shareholding or looking...
Read more

Create a cash flow friendly business

The term “Cash is King” rings true and is crucial for the survival of any business.  Statistics have shown that 80%...
Read more

How to Fund your Business and Unlock Growth

One of the main challenges for early-stage businesses in South Africa is access to funding. This is not as a...
Read more

South African Taxation Considerations of Virtual Currencies for Individuals

Background Cryptocurrency is a virtual or digital currency that can be digitally traded as a medium of exchange. Virtual currencies...
Read more