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How Behavioral Finance Works
What does money mean to the client?
By Rory Henry
The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management
I decided to call my book “The Holistic Guide to Wealth Management” because leveraging a suite of financial services offerings that work in harmony with each other is a powerful business model that can transform your firm. The transformative power of this model, however, is based on the human side of the advice we provide clients and how we can improve their lives. It’s about shifting the conversation from integrating and delivering services to clients to gaining a deep understanding of a client’s values and what gives them a sense of well-being.
MORE: Manage Change through A PACT | Priority No. 1: Your Mental and Physical Health | Trust Is the Primary Ingredient | How to Prepare Your Clients’ Kids for Their Inheritance | Annuities and Insurance Growing More Attractive | Quantifying the Value of an Advisor | Raise Your Rates to Change Your Clientele | How WealthTech Is Reshaping the Future of Holistic Advice | Profile of a Modern Firm: Putting the Vision into Practice | Tsunami of M&A, PE Is Disrupting the Accounting Profession | Introducing You to a Fulfilling Return on Relationships
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What is behavioral finance?
The Corporate Finance Institute defines behavioral finance as “the study of the influence of psychology on the behavior of investors, as well as on financial analysts.” Dr. Daniel Crosby, chief behavioral officer at Orion, and author of best sellers “The Behavioral Investor” and “The Laws of Wealth: Psychology and the Secret to Investing Success,” takes it a step further.
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How Accounting Staffing Has Changed
And two major drivers of that change.
By Marc Rosenberg
CPA Firm Staff: Managing Your #1 Asset
“Treat people as they are and they will remain as they are. Treat people as they can be and should be and they will become as they can and should be.” – Goethe
“You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up, such as dressing and the proper way of speaking and so on, the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl. But I know I can be a lady to you, Colonel Pickering, because you always treat me as a lady and always will.” – Eliza Doolittle in “My Fair Lady”
MORE: Thirteen Traits of Partners You’ll Want to Keep | Six Rules for Keeping Partners Happy and Productive | Why Strategic Thinking Impacts Your Firm’s Future | Seven Things Good Firms Must Do | Five Ways to Separate Accounting Winners from Losers | Two Factors Determine Firm Profitability | Don’t Make Firm Profitability a Goal | Core Values: Why Your Firm Needs Them | Five Keys in Compensating New Managing Partners | Top 20 Tough Choices for the Partner Comp Committee | Voting on Ownership Basis? Three Better Methods | What Partners Do and Don’t Deserve
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The ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus said: “There is nothing permanent except change.” People fly and drive cars instead of using horses and carts. Technology has replaced calculators, slide rules and the process for writing books. Food is purchased at grocery stores instead of grown on farms.
Drastic changes have occurred in the CPA industry as well. One of the biggest areas of change is how staff are managed and treated, as shown by this chart.
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How Client Data Comes In Is Critical
Standardization starts here.
By Jody Padar
Radical Pricing – By The Radical CPA
Why is McDonald’s easy to price and why is their product so consistent no matter where in the world you are? You know that if you get a Big Mac in Chicago or one in New York, it will taste and cost the same. This is because of standardization, and you shouldn’t underestimate the role digitized data plays in maintaining this consistency.
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Your firm can standardize and price just like McDonald’s does, if you have the right tech infrastructure, in addition to standards related to both clients and workflow.
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CAS Prospects Want Proof? You’ve Got That
Track your sales success and your existing clients can help.
By Hitendra Patil
Client Accounting Services: The Definitive Success Guide
As you hone your sales discovery process, you will see that asking and telling is not enough. You need to “show” as well.
MORE by Hitendra Patil: The DNA of Advisory-CAS | Advisory Is Not Consulting | What Exactly Is Client Advisory Services? | Review Your CAS Offerings | CAS Prospects Want Proof? You’ve Got That | What AI CEO’s Warning Means (and Doesn’t) for Accountants | Ditch the Sales Pitch | How to Get CAS Clients to Blow Your Horn | Four Questions for Choosing CAS Clients | What Is Your Firm’s Marketable Value? | Seven Tips for CAS Marketing | Twelve Things That Kill Your CAS Profits
What you show during the discovery discussion are your client accounting services sales collaterals. They are the “proofs” that you actually do what you say. These collaterals answer the often-unexpressed question in the prospect’s mind “What will I get?” For your CAS sales process, the following are some examples of the sales collaterals:
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Bissett Bullet: Keeping Up Appearances
Today’s Bissett Bullet: “So many judgments are made of us as accountants by prospective clients, sometimes even before we open our mouths.”
By Martin Bissett