Pricing Your Cannabis Services

Whether you work with cannabis or CBD/hemp businesses, these 6 steps will guide you.

By Andrew Hunzicker

Properly quoting accounting fees is complicated in any industry, but establishing a pricing policy for the wily cannabis and hemp/CBD niches can be especially challenging and overwhelming.

If you find it hard, or even scary, to price your cannabis and hemp/CBD accounting services without undercutting your value, you are not alone.

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Many accountants struggle with raising their fees beyond low hourly rates. Learning how to

  • package your services,
  • create clear offers to reflect your value, and
  • develop a system for charging appropriately for cleanup, onboarding and ongoing work

will enable you to confidently set your price and find clients who will happily pay it.
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What Cannabis Clients Should Look for in an Accountant

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Harry Shure, EA

Beware of pricing by phone.

By CPA Trendlines Research
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The production and distribution of cannabis is the newest and most variegated industry in America. Some would even say it’s one of the toughest industries in America in which to do business.

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It’s illegal everywhere yet legal in some places, but not legal the same way in all places. The federal government considers it a Schedule 1 narcotic right up there with heroin and LSD, yet the Internal Revenue Service is perfectly willing to collect taxes on companies that handle the product.
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Suchoff Takes Cannabis Accounting Passion National

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Suchoff

She cites the usual complicators: 280E, the dearth of banking services.

By CPA Trendlines Research
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Sandy Suchoff’s initial interest in cannabis came when a family member had an immune deficiency condition. The treatments seemed almost as hazardous as the disease itself.

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Medications came with lists of serious side effects and often conflicted with each other. But from what Suchoff read – and she read a lot – cannabis could do a world of good without threatening harm.
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Why Are CEO Clients So Confused?

Business hand holding hot chart in crystal ballYou just need to be a little bit of a mind reader.

By Andrew Hunzicker
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Why are CEOs so confused about what they want from their bookkeeper, accountant, tax CPA or CFO?

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Here’s what they tell me they want:

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Everything You Wanted to Know about Dispensary Accounting but Were Afraid to Ask

Plus why trying to beat 280e isn’t worth it.

By Andrew Hunzicker

Accounting for a dispensary turns out to be quite a challenge for the cannabis accountant.

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There are many issues, both GAAP and tax, as well as state-level compliance issues that must be understood as well.

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Do’s and Don’ts for Cannabis CPAs

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Michaelan

Q&A with Kevin Michaelan: “The complexity and risks cannot be understated.”

By CPA Trendlines Research
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Kevin Michaelan, CPA, MST, is the director of cannabis practice at AAFCPA, a leading CPA and consulting firm based in Boston with national & global reach. Massachusetts recently authorized sales of cannabis for recreational use, and the first retail stores opened last year.

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Here Michaelan offers CPA Trendlines insights into some of the technicalities of accounting for cannabis businesses.

Q: How is your firm involved in the cannabis industry?

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Kareyna Miller Mines Michigan Cannabis Niche

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Miller

Teach your clients standard procedures.

By CPA Trendlines Research

Even before they were allowed to open their doors, over 2,000 new businesses in Michigan were applying for a license to sell marijuana under the state’s new recreational cannabis law effective Dec. 1.

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Kareyna L. Miller, CPA, is a big believer in the medical benefits of cannabis. As Michigan went forward with commercial business laws, she started looking into the industry from an accounting perspective. What she saw was burgeoning upstarts working in an environment of financial and legal confusion.
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‘High Times’ at AICPA

Click here for the full report (PDF)

AICPA embraces opportunities and warns of risks.

By CPA Trendlines
The Cannabis CPA

Not long ago, the last thing you’d expect to see on the cover of an AICPA report would be images of marijuana leaves and cash, along with a rather edgy headline: “Marijuana and forensic accounting—high time for CPAs?”

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The quarterly “AICPA Forensic and Valuation Services” report is dedicated exclusively to the provision of services to businesses committing a federal felony, though at the state level, it’s not a crime…it’s an opportunity.

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