Financial Planning

March 4, 2021 

The COVID-19 pandemic is causing many finance and accounting executives, including your clients, to rethink their budgets, implement cost-saving measures, and reinforce their budgeting and forecasting, with a focus on proactive planning. Proactive planning is the process of budgeting and re-forecasting based on real-time operational data and market dynamics. It involves visualizing the path the...…

March 2, 2021 

The pandemic has impacted many influential tax rules. At the same time, the new presidential administration has implemented additional changes, making tax planning even more challenging.

March 1, 2021 

The pandemic has presented challenges to planning firms and clients alike. Earlier this year, thought leaders in the financial planning space gathered online for the AICPA’s 2021 Personal Financial Planning (PFP) Summit to discuss best practices for ...

May 11, 2020 

Expert offers tips for anyone who's worried about what to do next (or not to do, as the case may be) in the volatile coronavirus market: First, make sure both you and your financial advisor are fully engaged.

January 13, 2020 

Credit card debt, in and of itself, isn’t always bad. The true value of any debt is how much it helps versus how much it hurts your clients’ financial outlook. A loan may be necessary at times. And if they can get that cash infusion for zero percent ...

May 16, 2018 

Nearly 2 in 5 (39%) Americans say their biggest financial regret is not saving enough. Eighteen percent wish they started saving for retirement earlier, 14% regret not saving enough for emergency expenses and seven percent would have liked to have ...

February 19, 2018 

I resigned recently from the role as a VP on a NASDAQ listed company. We spent our lives forecasting. Wall Street wanted to know exactly what we were going to do the next quarter and year and preferably the next ten years! They were ruthless.

November 7, 2017 

A new survey by Credible.com reveals that millennials rank their credit card debt as the scariest issue in their daily lives, even scarier than weighty issues like dying and the threat of war. It’s hardly a surprise, given Americans hold nearly $800 ...

March 23, 2017 

Among the primary challenges faced my most MNEs is the fact that the financial systems currently in place do not support adequate tax reporting for the new tax transparency requirements (e.g. lack of legal entity detail, lack of a tax-sensitive chart ...

February 17, 2017 

The word cash is starting to get a funny ring to it, isn’t it? Like “davenport”, “slicker” or “billfold”. Coin and paper currency are fading into the background of modern finance and appear only most frequently in movies about heists or shady ...

Beth Melcher

February 6, 2017 

Small businesses face many financial hurdles. Whether due to an industry that is seasonal in nature, or because of aging accounts receivables, businesses can find themselves facing problems with cashflow, debt, profitability or vendor relationships.

August 18, 2016 

The new RIVIO Clearinghouse (see accompanying article) is a solution to a problem of financial hijinks with which you might not be familiar. After all, most CPAs perform their services ethically and expect their clients to represent their financial ...

Gail Perry