Your Firm Is Growing: Condolences About That Chaos in Finance

It’s exhilarating when enterprises undergo dramatic growth. Whatever the reason — a favorable merger, a startup success, a product line that really takes off — team morale skyrockets, and everyone shares excitement over the organization’s victories. But even as they rejoice, finance and accounting teams may already realize what’s coming: The business’s sudden rapid growth translates into increased transactions volume that soon outpaces the finance and accounting team’s capacity.

This article offers advice for managing the sharp acceleration in finance and accounting workload that inevitably comes with dramatic enterprise growth and change.