Directory:Fintel LLC
| 'Fintel LLC' | |
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| Slogan | 'Financial Intelligence for Your Business' |
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| Type | [[Company_Type:=Private|Private]] |
| Founded | [[Year_Started:=2000|2000]] |
| Headquarters | Madison, [[Country_Name:=United States|USA]] |
| Key people | Dr. Robert W. Pricer: CEO |
| Industry | [[NAICS_Code1_Title:=Financial|Financial]] [[NAICS_Code2_Title:=Business Financial Intelligence|Business Financial Intelligence]] |
| Contact | Fintel LLC Public Relations, P.O. Box 5390, Madison WI 53717-5390 +1-800-506-9845 +1-608-229-1320 [http://www.fintel.us/ Fintel website] |
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FINTEL is a privately held company based at Madison, WI that excels in the provision of data services, industry metrics and business intelligence solutions. FINTEL, as a brand epitomizes the quest of today’s businesses for achieving excellence in financial performance by employing the best in class financial and business intelligence tools. FINTEL is known the world over for being one of the most trustworthy and accurate sources of industry financial data & metrics that can be used to reliably benchmark the financial performance of a business with industry peers and competition. One hallmark and USP of FINTEL is that it is one of biggest repository of financial information in the US for small and medium sized businesses. It covers more than 2500 industry categories under the NAICS and SIC classifications.
History
Historically, FINTEL has helped in preparing databases for academic research and hence, has more reliability to offer than entities which were born in purely commercial backdrops it worked with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to have its financial database of privately held companies prepared for use in various economic and entrepreneurship studies conducted by academic researchers. As a legacy, the extensive dataset cleaning and smoothing is applied to all datasets used by all FINTEL tools makes them suitable for academic research, and obviously offer business owners true and actionable insights.
How FINTEL ensures data reliability
one of the key enablers of data reliability in case of FINTEL is the comprehensive analytical and data cleansing exercise. This is undertaken religiously to ensure that the quality and integrity of the datasets, on which FINTELs end products are based, is unquestionable. FINTEL, unlike others, is a financial intelligence and consulting company that has been founded by those involved in deep rooted academic research conducted at the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. FINTEL has experience in working with extremely large datasets of financial information for the purpose of ensuring that the data meets requisite statistical research assumptions like normality of distribution and temporal stability, it uses unique and powerful data management approaches. Commonly encountered problems seen in all large financial datasets like data entry errors or inconsistencies are dealt with, by FINTEL, using a cleaning routine that includes over two hundred checkpoints applied to each financial statement.
Fintel's Legendary Mentor - Dr. Robert W. Pricer
FINTELs roots are in academia One of the key men behind the company, Dr. Robert W. Pricer is a renowned authority on small business financial management. He has been teaching entrepreneurship, small business management, business planning, venture management and financing and was recently named one of the nations top 10 professors of entrepreneurship by Business Week magazine.
He is the recipient of many coveted awards including the Van Hise Distinguished Teaching Award, Mabel M. Chipman Excellence in Teaching Award, Graduate Business Association Professor of the Year Award, and Dr. W. Robert Marshall Technology Transfer Achievement Award. As many as 100 articles have been written by Dr. Pricer, who has also authored three books.
Dr. Pricer has not only been a business owner himself, he has formidable international teaching and consulting experience. He has been conducting research on many key business areas like venture creation, management and financing, and small business management and exporting.
FINTEL's Customer Groups
FINTEL's financial intelligence products have been hailed across industries and customer groups. Its products and services are regarded as the best on the market and are used as financial analysis and business strategy enablers. Some of the key customer groups for FINTEL are:
Busines Coaches and Consultants
Accountants
Financial Institutions
Private Equity Investors
Privately Held Companies and Family Owned Businesses
Publicly traded companies/Large Corporations
Franchise Networks
Industry Associations
Content Providers
Researchers & Students
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