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How Advisors Can Offer Tax Planning And Stay In Compliance

CFO News Room

And the consequences for incorrect tax advice can include legal and financial penalties if a client were to be harmed by the wrong advice – which is often not covered by the firm’s E&O insurance –creating an expensive liability when tax advice goes wrong. Affects how much can be saved to pre- and after-tax accounts !

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3 Financial Issues Small Businesses Face

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Growth planning should include your executive team and a CPA for tax planning purposes. Ineffective communication of financial results creates conflict and inefficiencies. Once published, you should meet with your managers and fractional CFO to study the statements, variance from budget, and forecast.

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The 4 Keys to Building a 100% Remote Bookkeeping Practice

The CFO College

Major soft skills involve time management, effective communication, writing, reliability and responsiveness towards clients, organization, project management, and your ability to own and address your problems and mistakes. World-class reporting also fosters better communication among the management team, board, investors, and lenders.

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Surviving the pandemic aftermath: an FP&A perspective

Future CFO

Process delays and slow communications, coupled with restrictive lockdowns, led to slower payments, increased financial risks and stretched service centers. The truth of the matter is that COVID-19 is exposing gaps in current financial planning across the region. Taufan Gunarso. “It

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Strategic Finance Focus at Year-End

VCFO

Alternatively, if expenses are running over budget, are there line items that can be cut or deferred to pull overall expenses back in line with budget? Tax Planning is Beneficial and Essential A wise person once said that failing to plan is planning to fail.

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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” It’s constant communication through the year. And then we got the transition done, and then were able to get right back into financial planning mode where we’re doing the systematic reviews and getting everyone on board and used to the new systems. All of the tax planning, and all of the behind-the-scenes work.

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

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For instance, a 2022 Vanguard study found that consumers have different preferences for the planning services they want to be completed by a human and those to be done by a digital solution. The firms’ self-categorization was also reflected in the value they receive from using different types of advisor technology.

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