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Financial Planning for Efficient Financial Management

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Financial planning typically includes the following key components: Setting Financial Goals: Identify and prioritize your short-term and long-term financial objectives, such as saving for retirement, buying a home, paying off debt, or funding your children's education. Understanding CLV can guide customer retention and marketing strategies.

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How Advisors Can Offer Tax Planning And Stay In Compliance

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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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Surviving the pandemic aftermath: an FP&A perspective

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Tam noted that FP&A professionals will then need to “revisit their financing and liquidity strategies, centralize decisions for cash release upon the applications of government stimulus, and implement tax planning strategies that can reduce cash expenditures and preserve budget.”. Rise of the new business partner.

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Weekend Reading For Financial Planners (Dec 24-25) 2022

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We also have a number of articles on spending and budgeting: Why advisors might want to consider using a client service calendar to organize the wide range of services they provide for clients throughout the year. A review of financial planning actions, from tax-loss harvesting to charitable giving, that have a December 31 deadline.

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To Temper the Effects of Monetary Restraint, We Need Pro-Growth…

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The Reagan administration and the Volcker Federal Reserve successfully tamed inflation and ushered in an era of economic growth and prosperity. By increasing the cost of borrowing and thereby quelling demand, and by cutting taxes and thereby unburdening supply, Reagan and Volcker established the conditions for an economic recovery.

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

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Given that a firm’s technology needs change over time, and that AdvisorTech software tools frequently add new features, conducting an annual tech stack audit can help ensure firms are getting the most out of their technology budget. by a staff member, or by an outside consultant. Bob Veres | Advisor Perspectives).

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Using Detailed Meeting Checklists to Drive Referral Growth

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I think the industry likes to tell a story that one of the big drivers from insurance and brokerage firms to RIAs is essentially the economics of it. But I’m struck as you were framing this that this basically had nothing to do with the economics of it. And the economics, they ultimately worked out long term.

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