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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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Easing the Struggles of the Annual Budgeting Process

Planful

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.

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101 Ways Financial Advisors Can Add Value For Their Clients

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Tax Planning. In addition to managing investments, tax planning is another area where advisors can demonstrate their value in dollar terms. This often starts with reviewing the client’s tax return to ensure they received the credits and deductions for which they were eligible.

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

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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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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 17-18) 2022

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To help determine an appropriate fee, advisors can then look to various benchmarking studies , which can provide industry-wide fee data , as well as information on specific fee structures and geographic areas that can help a firm owner tailor their fee. But many firms will find that their client referral rates are flat.

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Transcript: Ted Seides

Barry Ritholtz

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.