Financial Operations
How to Choose a Back Office Provider: A Buyer’s Checklist
Handing your back office to an outside provider is one of the higher-stakes decisions a growing company makes. Get it…
Anita Mellem
CEO, Escalon Norway & Certified Public Accountant
Anita has also worked extensively with Skattefunn and support schemes for entrepreneurial businesses.
Anita has also worked extensively with Skattefunn and support schemes for entrepreneurial businesses.
Escalon Services is small in Norway, but big in the world. We assist entrepreneurs and general managers in small and medium-sized businesses with internal administrative services such as accounting, payroll, HR and insurance, as well as helping our customers grow and scale both nationally and internationally.
We have offices in both Oslo and Bergen, but work digitally and help customers all over Norway, as well as several European countries in addition to the USA.
29 articles by Anita Mellem
Written from the desk, not from a content brief.
Financial Operations
Fractional CFO vs. Outsourced Controller: Which Does Your Business Need?
As a company grows, its finances usually break in one of two ways. Either the books stop keeping up, closes…
Financial Operations
Controller vs. CFO vs. Bookkeeper: Which Does Your Business Need?
If you are trying to figure out whether your business needs a bookkeeper, a controller, or a CFO, you are…
Financial Operations
Small Business Accounting Services: What to Look For in a Provider
Every small business keeps its books somehow, whether that is a spreadsheet, a part-time bookkeeper, or the founder catching up…
Financial Operations
Stock-Based Compensation Expense: How to Record It Correctly
Stock-based compensation is one of the largest non-cash expenses on most startup income statements and one of the most consistently…
Financial Operations
ASC 606 Revenue Recognition for SaaS: A Practical Guide
Every SaaS finance team has had the same argument at some point: when do we actually recognize this revenue? A…
Life Sciences
GAAP Revenue Recognition for Milestone-Based License Agreements in Biotech
Revenue recognition is one of the most technically demanding areas of accounting for any company. In biotech and life sciences,…
Life Sciences
How Biotech Startups Should Handle Milestone-Based Revenue
Revenue recognition is one of the most technically demanding areas of accounting for any business. For biotech startups, it is…
Accounting & Finance
The Role of Accounting Software in Simplifying Audit Prep
If you have ever spent the weeks before an audit digging through spreadsheets, chasing down receipts, or reconciling accounts that should have…
Accounting & Finance
Common Audit Findings in SMBs and How to Avoid Them
Nobody enjoys finding out that their financial audit uncovered significant deficiencies. Yet according to data from the Center for Audit…
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