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Our in-house accountants steer you closer to your goals with accurate record-keeping and reporting under GAAP/IFRS principles. Especially companies that raise external capital need to have accurate and professional books. The services we provide are focused on ensuring your finances and compliance are in order by helping you with initial accounting system setup, recording day-to-day financial transactions, revenue recognition, reconciling accounts and managing invoice payments. This will save you internally normally a 0,5 administrative fte.

In addition, proper tax planning is imperative in order to avoid unnecessary tax exposure and minimize risk. Our tax professionals provide tax consulting to companies on a variety of tax matters that include VAT filings, corporate taxation, international tax planning and tax credits/incentives (WBSO, Innovation Box).

Our payroll service bureau is cloud based and up-to-date with the latest requirements. Features include a.o. a fully paperless payroll, GDPR compliancy, fast and easy onboarding for new hires, automated payroll runs and calculation/deduction of pension contributions. By efficiently looking after the payroll process we aim to give the management team one less thing to worry about.

We help our clients meet their reporting obligations throughout the financial year, covering both the periodical standardized reporting cycle (actual vs. budget, runway, KPI’s) as well ad-hoc requests. As today’s top business executives are not satisfied with just the figures, we believe the value of reporting is its relevance and support for the decision-making process. Hence we are focused on providing business intelligence data that provides crucial insights, improves transparency and enables early warnings. We work with state-of-the-art online reporting systems that strike the right balance between content flexibility, speed of delivery and minimizing the risk of errors.

A well-designed financial model will provide an excellent strategic roadmap going forward. Besides managing the company’s budget, it will proof beneficial in strategic situations to raise capital, sell to an acquirer our enter into partnership agreements. Moreover, understanding the difference between your projections and your actual results can also help your executive team make important business decisions. Our team is equipped to translate your business case in a high quality financial model and even capture the most complex case at hand with scenario’s analysis, sensitivity studies and advanced revenue models.

Many of our ventures make effective use of grant instruments to fund their innovation. We support them in the administrative registration, reporting obligations to the authorities and processing the financial compensation received. Our advisers have extensive experience with a broad range of both national as European instruments which enables them to offer comprehensive support and ensure you are compliant at the highest standard.

We accompany our clients through the full fundraising process from the preparation of the pitch deck, business plan and financial model, to contact with investors, negotiations and due diligence. In this process our industry relations are valuable in finding the right capital partner. We work with early stage/pre-commercial assets but also lead arrange M&A and licensing deals for more advanced pipeline candidates. During the transaction we offer valuable economic analysis assessing the present value of the underlying deal and cap table/waterfall implications. Moreover we make use of the top tier datasystems delivering highly exclusive sector intelligence for your business needs.

We are proud to say that our work gets results: many ventures have closed successful rounds of funding with F.INSTITUTE’s support and our investor materials have been appraised by industry awards.

Many of our ventures need an interim or part-time CFO to balance out the founding team and bring a quantitative, strategic financial lens to the business. We are happy to bring this experience to you and help you bring your business to the next level. Our CFO’s are available on a flexible, collaborative basis and act as a part of your team with attendance at board meetings, management meetings and liaising with banks, advisors, investors and other key stakeholders. This will offer you a top-tier financial expert backed by a well-rounded team of financial professionals against a fraction of the cost of taking on a regular 0,4 fte financial director.