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The Hidden Costs of QuickBooks
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Most small businesses begin their financial lives using Intuit's QuickBooks, but if your business has moved beyond the entry level, your organization may be facing a number of challenges as you hit the limits of QuickBooks’ functionality. With the right framework and guidelines, you can assess the hidden costs of continuing to use QuickBooks along with the financial upside of switching to a modern financial management and accounting system.

Six Signs of Ineffective Family Office Reporting
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Based on a FOX Research, the average family office spends about 32 percent of its time on financial administration and reporting. That’s almost 17 weeks a year spent on collecting, verifying, analyzing, and consolidating financial information. For some family offices, these jobs took up as much as 75 percent of their time, which left them with little time to contribute to the true strategic objectives of a family office. The good news is that there is a better way, but first it's important to examine where family offices are going wrong.

Best Practices in Reporting
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Mariann Mihailidis

Family office executives are always looking for ways to improve their financial reporting packages and their client relationships. This best practices document reflects the work of 20 members of the FOX Financial Executive Council™ who gathered to learn about how one’s learning style impacts the creation and delivery of financial information and to develop a "best in class" reporting package. This comprehensive document includes a client meeting checklist as well as exemplary quarterly, annual, and supplemental reports that can serve as models for other family offices.