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Finance Staff Metrics

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We are a large insurance company looking for metrics on the mix of professionals in our finance/accounting function. Specifically, we are looking for some metrics on the number of CPAs in this function as a percentage of revenue, as a percentage of total staff, or some other metric that would be meaningful. To date, we have not been able to find comparable data.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Alan Steiger (alsteiger@comcast.net )

Response:

We are a small health insurance company. Our metrics are as follows:

  • Our revenues are $150 million and the entire finance staff is made up of 12 FTE's.
  • Five out of the 12 employees are CPA's, including the CFO, Controller, Mgr, Senior and auditor.
  • Staff and clerical level employees are not CPAs.
  • All employees have a college degree. Four have advanced degrees and two are currently working on their advanced degrees.

These are the only metrics that we measure.

David Burke (DBurke@celtic-net.com )

 

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