CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

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. Might be a source of tax-free income ( unless the IRS says otherwise )!

Tax Planning 130

Tax Planning Compliance Planning Communication 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Creating Visual Deliverables That Clearly Communicate Financial Planning Concepts – While technical expertise is necessary to formulate a financial plan, being able to clearly communicate the findings to a client can make all the difference between whether or not the client will understand and agree to implement the advisor’s recommendations.

Planning 130

Planning Benchmarking Profit and Loss Communication 130

Barry Ritholtz

AUGUST 15, 2023

SEIDES: And I’ll tell you a story that’s fun about the communication of it too. SEIDES: No, you’re right about the securities. SEIDES: It wasn’t a question of security prices going down, it’s a question of like, can you transact? It’s part of their own tax planning.

Benchmarking 52

Benchmarking Investments Marketing Treasury 52

CFO News Room

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Or should I have the advisors not worry about the workflows, communicate with their CSA the way that they prefer to communicate with the CSA, and then have the CSA spend the time putting the workflow together, and then let the advisor go on to the next client and give that very high-level customer service that are clients are very used to having?

Restructuring 130

Restructuring Planning Accounting Marketing 130

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So then we decided, look, look, maybe we should put all of these businesses together and create a securities division. And that’s how we created the securities division. We now had the securities business. Hank Paulson had left to go become treasury secretary. They didn’t even know who they were.

Marketing 108

Marketing Treasury Banking Profit and Loss 108