cassmer ward ceo award

Charlotte, NC — May 29, 2025 — Cassmer Ward, founder and CEO of Nexagy, is among the Charlotte Business Journal’s 2025 Most Admired CEO list. The annual recognition highlights leaders who demonstrate exceptional vision, integrity, and measurable impact within their industries and communities. Nexagy helps business owners turn financial data into real, actionable insights. The…

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small business accounting, chart of accounts, financial reporting, business profitability, financial systems

What’s Quietly Killing Your Profitability? Sometimes the most dangerous financial issues aren’t the ones that scream—they’re the ones that whisper. Poor financial structure rarely causes an immediate crisis. Instead, it quietly chips away at your margins, your data clarity, and ultimately your decision-making. Sound familiar? Let’s fix it. Misaligned Chart of Accounts = Confused reporting…

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mastering cash flow

Why Cash Flow Matters More Than Revenue You’ve heard it before: Cash is king. But having a profitable business on paper means nothing if your cash flow is out of sync. Many businesses don’t fail due to a lack of revenue—they fail because they can’t access their cash when they need it. If you’re constantly…

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2024 Year-End Financial Closing Guide: 10 Essential Steps for Business Owners

The end of a calendar year is always jam-packed for business owners. Not only are you doing your best to get a little bit of rest in during the holidays as well as making sure you’re well-situated in terms of business and revenue for the first quarter of the next year, you’re also trying to…

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6 Strategic Financial Moves to Strengthen Your Business in 2025

It’s a new year—cue the confetti—and many of us are making resolutions and setting intentions to make 2025 a year of learning, growth, and improvement. Of course, we also know that the same resolutions we set eagerly at the beginning of the year usually peter out by February. Why? Many reasons—sometimes, we set unrealistic goals,…

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Why QuickBooks Might Be Hurting Your Small Business More Than Helping It

First, let’s get one thing out of the way: this isn’t a piece devoted to trashing Quickbooks. On the contrary: as a fractional CFO who has worked with businesses of all shapes and sizes, I’ve seen firsthand how Quickbooks has revolutionized small business accounting. It gives business owners visibility into their numbers in a way…

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