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How Understanding Sales Tax Can Help Your Business

CFO Share

Think your business is too small to worry about sales taxes? South Dakota , small business sales tax has been an issue you cannot afford to ignore. With audits ramping up and penalties exceeding $100,000, understanding sales and use tax is essential. The cost of sales tax non-compliance. Think again.

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Small Business CFO's: Do You Need One?

Boston Startup CFO

The accounting manager recommended that we audit our books, which seemed like a good idea, especially since we had been having conversations about getting acquired. Attributes of a Great CFO. Our CFO made it a point to understand the business drivers and began to institute policies and “controls” that we needed as a growing company.

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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

The CFO College

At CFO Bookkeeper, we use “VIP” to refer to “Valuable Expert, Instructor, Participant.” Valuable Expert : Becoming a valuable expert can mean expanding your accounting and tax knowledge in your niche, or adding CFO-level services, tools, and skills to serve clients in any industry.

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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

VCFO

Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail. This is certainly true in the area of taxation, where there are often opportunities to legally minimize or defer the timing of tax payments and to claim income tax credits.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 31-Jan 1) 2023

CFO News Room

Why it is important for advisory firms to conduct an audit of their tech stack and the steps they can take to conduct the exercise. First, a firm owner can consider how they want to conduct the audit, which can be performed themselves (though this can take time away from other responsibilities!), Bob Veres | Advisor Perspectives).

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

CFO News Room

And so, a lot of our processes now are more of a CFO’s perspective, where we’re reporting to clients when they want to be reported to. So, we have an internal centralized financial planning team, they are doing all the eMoney plans, all the portfolio manager. We want to save your time, not waste your time.

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Dropping A B/D License Without Dropping Current B/D Platform

CFO News Room

I think the biggest thing that started it was when we would have our branch audits, we never had any feedback about something on the RIA side. So I figured, I had to hold on to the CFO role, because I also am a CPA. Why Stacey Decided To Drop Her Broker-Dealer License [05:41]. Stacey: It’s an interesting story.

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