Colorado CFO, LLC

"Uncompromised Professionalism And Integrity Through Financial, Accounting And Operational Leadership"

Kurt Sultzman - CPA, MBA, Principal

(970) 219-3454
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Providing a Wide Variety of Business Consulting Services

Mission -

"Assist companies to their greatest potential through financial, accounting, operational knowledge and uncompromised integrity."

Business Consulting & Services Performed:

Industries with practical experience:

  • Construction
  • Aggregate Mining
  • Medical
  • Retail/Wholesale

Assist Owners and Operational Management with critical decisions through accounting informational tools:

  • Offer a financial analysis and viewpoint to critical decisions such as staffing, equipment and pricing.
  • Provide an Owner and Management a profession discussion in decision making process

Strategic Analysis and Planning:

  • Prepare business operating plans
  • Prepare operating budgets
  • Create financial models for situation analysis
  • Create sales and marketing plans and goals
  • Turnaround low performing operations
  • Staff and cost restructuring analysis
  • Business Acquisition -develop contracts, finance and execute plan
  • Divestiture – planning, pricing and execution

Capital Purchasing and Disposal planning:

  • Prepare capital budgets and hierarchical investment
  • Source the most competitive financing
  • Capital and equity sourcing
  • Manage all capital transactions: gather information, review obligations, risk analysis, contingency and commitment reporting, coordinate closing with legal and accounting
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Cash management and forecasting

Strategic Planning

Accounting policy and procedure Assistance

Operation Support

Financial Modeling

Accounting services:

  • Financial statements
  • Accounts payable and receivables
  • Loans, Notes and derivative management
  • Banking and treasury services
  • Internal and External audit coordination
  • Compliance and Insurance

- Report Coordination for investors and vested parties

- Management of short and long term investment accounts

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Perform and manage real estate transactions:

  • Property Procurement & Management
  • Sub-lease Agreement Documentation
  • Lease Negotiation
  • Real Estate Market Analysis & Valuation Assistance 
  • Commercial Property Liquidation

Principal Profile

Consultant and Financial Advisor - 2009 - Present

Chief Financial Officer, Construction Companies 2007 to 2021 - General Contracting, Subcontracting, Aggregate Mining and Land Development / Management. Responsible for financial statements, cash flow, budgets, banking, contract review, equipment, asset acquisition and investment analysis. Integral part of policy and financial planning process. Work directly with CEO in strategic planning. Responsible for Controller functions.

Managed reorganization in economic down-turn. Including staff, equipment, financial decisions and recommendations to management team. Refocused organization to profitable business units and orchestrated the discontinuation of unprofitable divisions.

Budgeting – Instituted an annual/quarterly budget and proforma process. Variance analysis of actual to budgeted. Provide detailed variances in pricing, costs and revenues.

Financial Modeling – Created decision making tools for CEO and operational managers for margin and pricing to maximize profits and operational efficiency. Helped drive organizational change through modeling and discussion.

Regulation and Tax Audit – Handled all state and bank required audits, all sales tax and income tax filing.

Software Implementation- Implemented new accounting software into all divisions of Hall-Irwin and Lot Holding. Improved inventory systems, job costing analysis, revenue recognition processes and data timeliness. Decreased monthly closing time to two weeks and provided weekly information to managers for more relevant decision making.

Increased internal controls – reduced risks associated with contracting, purchasing and analysis.

Managed financial restructuring and Cash Flow–Restructured debt and assets to improve ratios, rates and cash flow.

Managed external auditors and tax analysis – Involved in organizational structure and tax consequence decision making

Chief Financial Officer/ Controller, Northern Colorado Rehabilitation Hospital (NCRH), Parent company is Ernest Health Inc., 2005 to 2007. $21M start up acute rehabilitation hospital serving northern Colorado. Collaborate with organization from construction to opening. Oversee all cost reports, financial statements, admissions, central supply, medical records, payroll, P&L and food service. Negotiate insurance contracts. Strategize on operational processes. Created process to share inventories in pharmacies between hospitals. Manage $17M budget.

Systems and Policy creation

Start-up Management

Educational Pathways - Owner/Operator- 10 years

Wholesale Distributor of education materials and literature.

All aspects of accounting, inventory and strategic planning/marketing

Education

CPA - Colorado registered Certified Public Accountant

MBA, Accounting / Finance, Regis University

BA, Economics , University of Puget Sound

BA, Finance, University of Puget Sound

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