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Financial Reporting & Accounting
8020 Consultant Sue Chaplin is an active CPA with 15 years of financial reporting and accounting experience in entertainment, media, technology... View Article
6 Minute Read
March 21, 2016
Financial Turnaround & Restructuring
Even well-run companies can hit rough patches and find themselves in states of insolvency. Internally, management changes, unscalable systems or... View Article
6 Minute Read
March 14, 2016
M&A Due Diligence & Transaction Support
8020 Consultant Phillip Matubang has over 15 years of experience in multi-faceted sales roles that require expertise in strategic planning,... View Article
7 Minute Read
March 7, 2016
Project Management
8020 Consultant Ellen Vayner has over 20 years of experience in management consulting and project management. She has worked with... View Article
5 Minute Read
February 29, 2016
CEO Advice
“Hire in haste, repent at leisure”, or “be slow to hire and quick to fire”: this wisdom on hiring is... View Article
3 Minute Read
February 22, 2016
Financial Planning & Analysis
In our work in financial consulting for start-ups, we’ve found financial woes are all too common, even in start-ups that... View Article
5 Minute Read
February 16, 2016
Financial Planning & Analysis
8020 Consultant Mitch Browne has over 10 years of diverse finance experience, including positions in corporate strategy, corporate finance and... View Article
5 Minute Read
February 4, 2016
Financial Planning & Analysis
We asked 8020 Consultant John Wright to share his experience and a few best practices regarding digital analytics. While most... View Article
5 Minute Read
January 25, 2016
M&A Due Diligence & Transaction Support
Due diligence: it’s a no-brainer for experienced investors, and buy-side best practices are straightforward and well-established. Companies don’t often sell... View Article
4 Minute Read
January 5, 2016
Financial Systems
As financial processes become more complex and intertwined at growing firms, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems become must-haves. Accounting, reporting... View Article
3 Minute Read
December 16, 2015
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8020 Consulting in the News
8020 Consulting celebrates MarVista Entertainment on 15 years of business success—as featured in the October 10, 2018, edition of The… View Article
October 15, 2018Kelly Patchett
Financial Reporting & Accounting
The accounting community has been discussing the new leasing standard (ASC 842) since February of 2016. If your company hasn’t… View Article
October 11, 2018Susan Weikel
Financial Planning & Analysis
A well-structured Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team can facilitate the direction of a company, leveraging organizational strategy to guide… View Article
October 2, 2018Kristin Jue
Business Advisory
As businesses grow and business leaders look for new opportunities and markets for their product, the idea of expanding into… View Article
September 11, 2018Susan Weikel
Financial Planning & Analysis
Getting sales and finance to work together cohesively can be a challenge. Often, these two departments see each other as… View Article
September 5, 2018Justin Thompson
Manufacturing Operations Finance
Since the Trump tariffs started early this year, companies with global supply chains have been working to understand and manage… View Article
August 9, 2018June Perlovich