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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

The CFO College

You’ll also want to stay current on successful brands, along with trending operations, metrics, and benchmarking. 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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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

VCFO

A review of revenue will often involve examining sales performance. By nature, most salespeople will do exactly what they are incentivized to do (which is why a well-designed sales compensation plan is so important). Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

CFO News Room

Traditionally, investment planning has been at the forefront of how financial advisors add value for their clients. Tax Planning. In addition to managing investments, tax planning is another area where advisors can demonstrate their value in dollar terms. Executive Summary.

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2022 Best-Of Highlights From The Nerd’s Eye View Blog

CFO News Room

10 Key Performance Indicators For Financial Advisory Firms To Compare With Industry Benchmarking Studies – Industry benchmarking studies can be a valuable tool for advisory firm owners to make better business decisions. The key point is that firm owners can use benchmarking data to better understand how they can improve their business.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 17-18) 2022

CFO News Room

The Commission might also explore what types of experiences meet the Experience requirement, as currently positions focused directly on financial planning work (e.g., paraplanner) count for the same number of hours as those within a planning firm but with little engagement on actual financial planning (e.g.,

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Connecting With Ultra-HNW Heirs By Fostering Family Trust

CFO News Room

Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. And for most advisors that takes us down a road of tax planning and lots of different types of trusts and family limited partnerships and GRATs and IDGTs and all the different strategies that are out there, or at least as long as Congress lets us keep playing those games.

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Transcript: Gary Cohn

Barry Ritholtz

Now, there was one really important part of, of that as part of my job training, I was sent to the big sales offices to learn how the product was sold. One of the big sales offices was out in Long Island in Garden City. So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time.

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