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

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.

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Finance Strategic Planning Auditing CFO 88

CFO News Room

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Michael Kitces is Head of Planning Strategy at Buckingham Wealth Partners , a turnkey wealth management services provider supporting thousands of independent financial advisors. Estate planning is commonly a big point of discussion, as well. Author: Michael Kitces. Team Kitces. Is that basically the cycle?

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Communication Planning Education Numbers 130

CFO News Room

DECEMBER 17, 2022

First, it is important for firm owners to create a regularly scheduled process to reassess fees and communicate them to their clients. But by reassessing fees and communicating the advisor’s value and any fee changes to clients on a regular basis, firm owners can feel more confident that a fee increase will be successful!

Planning 130

Planning Education Investments Benchmarking 130

The CFO College

APRIL 8, 2021

You’ll also want to stay current on successful brands, along with trending operations, metrics, and benchmarking. 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.

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CFO Benchmarking Accounting 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

Barry Ritholtz

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So, you know, we, we, we got involved and created a benchmark, a commodity indices at the time. You know, I also had, you know, my, my chief of staff, my chief of communications, Ashley Hickeys, she, she was over the top amazing. She left there, she became a crisis communications expert. Did you actually outperform the market?

Marketing 112

Marketing Banking Treasury Profit and Loss 112