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Fear of the unknown: cash flow management advisory
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Why are you not offering Cash Flow Management Advisory services at your firm?  People are looking for CPA advisors. It’s almost an undisputed fact nowadays; your clients don’t know what to do with their information and analytics, and they are going to other firms that offer advisory services...
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How to Manage Risk Through Information
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The Information Age – are we still in it or are we past it? In many ways, information is freeing. But it can also be paralyzing with so much access to data at the tip of our fingers. How can we decipher what information is relevant to our businesses and what to do about it?  […] ...
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The Crumbling House of Cards
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Lies CPAs tell themselves.  Now the title may sound a bit dramatic, but it’s not as far-fetched as you’d think.  Each time a new client walks through your door (or lights up your inbox), it’s a new opportunity to practice what you preach at your firm.  Do you regularly tell clients...
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Rewinding Cash Flow Advisory
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Why the first steps to cash flow advisory should have started 5 years ago…  Given the current economic situation due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, many businesses and partner services are scrambling to catch up on cash flow advisory.  No one knows when the world will truly recover and the e...
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Understanding the difference between Consulting, Advisory, and Implementation
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A tale of Scope Creep. When you say “consulting” something slightly different comes to mind for everyone. This is because there are different types of consultants and even the “same type of consultants” goes about their process a little differently.  Many consultants like to stay on the frin...
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How To Deliver Bad News To Your Clients
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No client wants to hear bad news, and no Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firm wants to deliver it. But there’s an art to giving clients bad news in ways that help them understand the issues at play without being intimidated by them and presenting solutions at the same time that make clients fee...
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My business’s cash flow is failing: What do I do?
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Cash flow is the life of a business. Unless you are running a tech startup that was designed to burn heavily through cash to grow as quickly as possible, the stream of money you have dictates how well the business is performing. These problems happen to small and large businesses alike. They can ...
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Looking at Expert Advisory through the Business Owner lens.
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To advise, or not to advise? (Sorry Shakespeare…) Like it or not, entrepreneurs tend not to be good at calling on advisors/experts in certain areas “telling them what to do”. It’s almost a fact that entrepreneurs tend to be resistant to professionals who were hired to help them improve thei...
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Are Your Clients Bad Business Habits Hurting Your Business?
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Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms can never guarantee the skillset or business acumen of their clients. In fact, a business’ lack of financial management structures tends to be one of the top reasons for consulting with a CPA in the first place. While CPAs will always be, by definition, fin...
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How to Avoid Analysis Paralysis
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Today we have more choices and strategic information at our fingertips than ever before. Here’s how to make it work for you. Making business decisions can be challenging when there are so many factors at play. Timing can play a huge role. So can due diligence in vetting every potential decision y...
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The 3 M’s of Cash Flow
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How to Monitor, Manage, and Model It for Business Success Cash flow is on every business owners’ mind due to the global economic conditions that 2020 has wrought. Understanding cash flow as a concept and as a series of processes helps businesses succeed and has become especially important in an e...
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Ready for Cash Flow Management with your CPA?
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How to work with your CPA Firm on new and exciting services in 2021.  Just like your business, your CPA Firm has started to diversify its service offerings. Not only to take on the behemoth of a year that was 2020, but to continuously evolve and provide the best possible service to their cli...
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Transformation vs Change
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“Change” is replacing one thing with something else. “Transformation” is the word for a dramatic change from one entity into another.  After 2020, most businesses that have come out on the other side have truly transformed themselves from what they once were into entirely new entities… and t...
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Turning Strategy into Results
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How businesses can refocus on building a strategy for their business in 2021.  Wouldn’t it be nice if we could start looking to the future instead of running triage simply to survive 2020?  For many businesses, building a strategy for 2021 is an absolute must, in order to have a better ...
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Sales Forecasting in COVID-Era
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Sales and growth strategies are needed now more than ever before. Here’s why. It’s difficult to consider building a sales forecast when the economy is down, and many businesses are struggling to keep their heads above water. But the fact of the matter is, the more planning you can do now, the mor...
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