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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (October 28-29)

Nerd's Eye View

Also in industry news this week: A survey indicates that while financial advisors remain the most trusted source of financial advice, they might increasingly encounter client questions and ideas that originated from social media Following the transition of advisors and clients from TD Ameritrade and amid competition from competing RIA custodians, Charles (..)

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Feb 25-26)

Nerd's Eye View

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” – this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the SEC’s proposed “Safeguarding Rule” would significantly increase the number of investment advisers deemed to have custody of client assets and increase paperwork requirements for advisers (..)

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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. They do not sit in their office only crunching numbers; they should have a feel for where those numbers come from. Do You Need a CFO?

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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

The CFO College

For us numbers people, one of the hardest things can be getting out in front of a CEO and talking yourself up enough to land a new client. When you can properly help lower your client’s taxes, you provide them with increased cash flow to grow their business or invest more in training and employee benefits.

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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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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. And it’s based on what your assets under management are, your number of accounts. And we also converted a fair number of non-managed accounts to manage when we made this transition.

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