About

I first got to know businesses through their numbers. Then I chose to live them from the inside

Chartered accountant, then manager inside companies, today outsourced finance director for SMEs across Italy. Lecturer and contributor for Il Sole 24 Ore — Norme & Tributi.

  1. Advisory

    Chartered accountant (dottore commercialista): tax, corporate, financial statements. Businesses seen through the numbers they produce.

  2. Running businesses

    Management roles inside companies: people, suppliers, banks, budgets. The same dynamics, seen from the inside.

  3. Financial leadership

    The two skill sets together, inside SMEs, as external finance director: from treating the crisis to preventing it.

About

“I put the numbers in order to give the business direction.”

I am Alfredo Cerabino and I provide outsourced financial leadership for SMEs

My professional career began more than twenty-five years ago in tax and corporate advisory as a chartered accountant (dottore commercialista), and over the years widened to management responsibilities in businesses across Italy. In time I chose to go beyond the traditional role of the adviser, working alongside SMEs in different sectors and guiding them through growth, reorganisation, management control and value building. In the last ten years I have specialised in business crisis and over-indebtedness procedures — since the original Law 3 of 2012 — developing a complete view of the fragilities and the potential of business systems.

From “treating” over-indebtedness to “preventing” it through planning

Today I bring my experience directly inside SMEs as an external, outsourced CFO, putting the technical and managerial skills I have acquired at the service of the business owner’s economic and financial decisions. My aim is to become a stable point of reference in preventing the crisis, through planning, management control and the processes of growth and value building over time. I also lecture and write for Il Sole 24 Ore — Norme & Tributi on tax and business crisis.

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Alfredo Cerabino, chartered accountant and outsourced CFO for SMEs

“My aim is to become a stable point of reference in preventing the crisis: through planning, management control and building the company’s value over time.”

Alfredo Cerabino — chartered accountant and outsourced CFO

01 — Method

Metodo Direzione Finanziaria™

The four-phase path that supports expansion, reorganisation and business crisis, to make your company competitive, organised and ready for sustainable growth — or for building the value that a future exit requires.

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02 — Services

Services for SMEs

The offer for business owners and SMEs: from outsourced financial leadership to management control, from business crisis to budgeting and business planning.

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03 — Case studies

What changes in the business

Starting point, what we did and the result in three representative scenarios: cash, margins and the sustainability of an investment.

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Let’s talk

Let’s talk about your business

The first conversation is to understand whether and how I can be useful: your company’s situation, its objectives and the point it pays to start from.

A first, confidential and exploratory conversation. Your data is treated in confidence and never passed on to third parties.