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what your wealthy clients aren’t telling you

//www.g005e.com/2020/10/14/maximizing-wealthy-client-relationships/you need to listen between the lines.

by anthony glomski and russ alan prince
your $5-million high-net-worth practice

take a moment to consider:

how hard is it to find and bring on a wealthy client?

what does it take to keep a wealthy client highly satisfied and doing more business with you?

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it commonly takes a lot to win a wealthy individual or family as a client. it takes a lot of effort to keep the wealthy as clients, let alone do more business with you. not only must you deliver top-quality expertise, but you often need to create a sensational experience. you must build a high level of rapport. yet, a great many accountants are not maximizing their relationships with their wealthy clients.
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wow clients with trend analysis

//www.g005e.com/2021/11/17/business-development-and-sales-arent-scary/comparing the statement of operations with the balance sheet. bonus: the five numbers needed to run a better business.

by ed mendlowitz
77 ways to wow!

the sample statement of operations report below was created using excel to better illustrate and highlight the differences. this also enabled entering selected percentages, which cannot be done on most computer-generated financial statements. most computerized reports can be exported to excel with a couple of clicks.

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besides the percentages included below, a helpful percentage would be increase or (decrease) in monthly sales, or any other item you want to track. in the illustration, monthly purchases to sales and cost of goods sold percentages were tracked.
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convince your firm of cas value

three happy businesspeople looking at laptopdon’t just introduce, reinforce.

by hitendra patil
client accounting services: the definitive success guide

unless you become the “cas champion” or make someone accountable to be one, your client accounting services practice will not take off the starting blocks.

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and the single biggest initial challenge for the cas champ is how to communicate the value of cas to the firm’s future fortune to every stakeholder – be it partners, staff, clients and prospects. for this post, i will assume that your cas champ absolutely “gets it.”
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transferring business interests to optimize estate taxes

couple sitting across desk from advisorstrategic estate planning could save your clients millions.

by anthony venette, cpa/abv

we stand at the precipice of the largest wealth transfer in american history. millions of business owners are struggling to write the next chapter of their companies and their legacies. prudent gift and estate tax planning can be the difference between creating generational wealth and squandering it. gifting privately held business interests to a child or children can be an effective and tax-efficient way to maximize wealth transfer and achieve legacy planning goals.  

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that being said, many business owners are unaware of the benefits of gifting interests in their businesses rather than cash. here are four important reasons why gifting business interests can be advantageous: 

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help business clients lower property tax assessments

profile of man shouting tax and other, starred-out wordssome property owners pay inaccurate property tax levels by as much as 20% to 30%.

by josh malancuk with jm tax advocates

with cash-starved states and municipalities looking under every nook and cranny for revenue, manufacturers with lots of fixed assets and personal property are generally taking it on the chin when it comes to their property tax assessments.

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many of your business clients, especially manufacturers, sense their assessments are too high. but most don’t have the time, resources or expertise to challenge their assessment through the protest or appeal process before the deadline. and so, overpayments continue for another cycle and then again, and again and again. that’s what assessors count on. but you owe it to your clients to keep your assessors accountable through available appeals and to help them avoid overpaying taxes year after year.

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