Nerd's Eye View

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that the latest Fidelity RIA Benchmarking Study shows that while RIAs saw gains in AUM and revenue last year, their operating margins tightened, suggesting that rising expenses are cutting into firm profits.

Benchmarking 98

Benchmarking Tax Planning Investments Planning 98

CFO Plans

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Optimize Your Hiring Strategy with CFO Plans Business Tax Planning as a Route to Savings In financial management, business tax planning is often an overlooked yet vital component. Meticulous planning can lead to substantial savings, freeing up resources for employee benefits.

Tax Planning 52

Tax Planning Benchmarking Risk Management Compliance 52

VCFO

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

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.

Finance 88

Finance Strategic Planning Auditing Planning 88

Planful

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

You need to consider all of the potential outcomes of scenarios, incorporate tax planning and capital expenditures, plan for potential alterations to the budget plan that could skew financial allocation, etc. Rely on benchmarks and external indicators to improve accuracy.

Budgeting 40

Budgeting Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) Strategic Planning Forecasting 40

The CFO College

APRIL 8, 2021

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.

CFO 52

CFO Accounting Benchmarking Tax Planning 52

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: If the S&P is your benchmark, which it isn’t for these pools of capital. RITHOLTZ: What should be their benchmark? So the proper benchmark for those pools has to look a little bit like the underlying assets they’re investing in. So what do you use for a benchmark? 14, 15% a year? RITHOLTZ: Right.

Investments 52

Investments Benchmarking Marketing Treasury 52

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

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.

Communication 130

Communication Planning Education Numbers 130