When this fast-growing, multi-location salon found themselves drowning in unreliable reports and unclear payroll data, their expansion plans stalled.
PCG rebuilt their financial infrastructure, corrected over $100K in errors, and gave leadership the insight they needed to open new locations with confidence.
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Overview of Client Business Model The Client is a privately-held technology company headquartered in San Francisco, CA. The company was founded in 1998 and provides a suite of technology-based solutions and consulting services including business process management, software development, and server/desktop virtualization. The Client primarily serves the legal, financial, and biopharmaceutical industries. One of the
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“There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.” Oscar Wilde, Author A Public Relations (PR) firm specializes in digital, social and conventional communication campaigns in a unique, creative, and results-oriented way. Their work is heavily deadline driven. Identify Opportunities PR firms face complex accounting rules with
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“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.” Anthony J. D’Angelo This nonprofit is dedicated to providing challenged workers with the opportunities and support they need to make substantial contributions to our society. They recognize each individual has special gifts and talents. Community building and integration is their mission. Identify Opportunities
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“The use of alternative energy is as inevitable as fossil fuels are finite.” Gawdat Bahgat Identify Opportunities A Waste-to-Energy (WTE) corporate collective is engaged in energy projects throughout the world. Their core strength is consulting with their clients on how to increase efficiencies in renewable energy usage. The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) felt he was
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Client Challenge: Pacific Crest Group (PCG) is frequently asked to step in to address IT problems that impact office operations. In the case of one of our professional services clients, they needed to revise their networking strategy in order to increase productivity. As a creative team, the company’s staff needed to come together to brainstorm
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The Client Challenge: Pacific Crest Group (PCG) was engaged by a professional services company to help them gain control of their accounting system, including payroll. Over the course of a seven-year client engagement, PCG’s role has evolved from that of bookkeeper to a more strategic consultative role of outsourced CFO and controller, as well as
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Client Challenge: Blue Frog is a $5 million contract screen printing and embroidery company that creates specialty clothing and goods for customers. Founded 10 years ago, the company has consistently demonstrated sales growth above the industry average and continued to grow until there were more than 90 people on the payroll, although their profits remained
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Client Challenge: After four years, the receptionist decided to leave her job at a very busy office. She was not a stellar employee, and her manager had begun to catalog some performance issues before she left the practice. Six months after she left, the same employee contacted the company hoping to be rehired into another
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Client Challenge: There are many times when a company finds itself with an urgent need to hire a key employee. Their current staff may be overextended, a new client or project may require new talent, or a key employee leaves unexpectedly and a critical hole in the organization needs to be filled quickly. This is
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Client Challenge: A small, successful accounting firm established some ambitious goals for growth. The company owners had always been involved in the service delivery, operations, and management of the company, but realized that if they were going to have the time and energy to spearhead growth initiatives, they would need to remove themselves from those
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Client Challenge: A small, family-owned company decided to provide a generous maternity leave benefit to a key employee who had been with the company for some time. The company only has five employees, and they had no formal employee handbook, only detailed offer letters and a few randomly written “policies,” but nothing addressing maternity leave.
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