As family offices grow increasingly complex and manage larger and more varied assets, they are becoming prime targets for a variety of security threats. From this report, learn what family offices can do to protect against the risks, including cybersecurity breaches, theft schemes, and fraud perpetuated by unvetted 'insiders' of the firm.
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In today’s complicated business climate, is your accounting software helping you grow and compete—or holding you back? This guide will help you understand whether it’s time to make a move. You’ll discover:
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.
Seventy-seven percent of employees want voluntary benefits. But with so many options available in today's market, it's crucial to choose the right benefits, based on your employees' demographics, claims history, and expressed wants and needs. A good place to start is to know the trending voluntary benefits and when top employers are offering them.
The enterprise-wide accounting and finance platforms that other industries employ have not historically satisfied the unique information and reporting requirements of private wealth management firms and family offices. Fortunately, material advances in investment accounting technology, as well as fresh ideas around accounting best practices have emerged in recent years to help address these issues.
It's a pivotal time for Single Family Offices, with more and more reviewing their structure and operations to minimize risks. In this roundtable discussion, experts share how Single Family Offices are evolving and addressing new risks and risk mitigation strategies.
Families of wealth and business-owning families report that privacy and security of personal and financial data is a concern, yet few report confidence that these risks have been mitigated. This guide is designed to help families, family offices, and family enterprises integrate a security strategy in a code of conduct framework that is responsive to the family’s risk and intrusion tolerance that comes with living in a digital world.
Succession planning for a family business inevitably requires planning for the transition of the management team. This transition presents several challenges, including dealing with non-family managers and with a family member who is not suited for a leadership role in the business. These difficulties are not insurmountable, and, with clear communication, careful planning and assistance from advisors, the family will end the planning process with a stronger and more successful management team and family business.
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When there's a pandemic and the business landscape is no longer business-as-usual, you may wonder how best to proceed—how to keep going and find ways to not just survive but thrive. In this webinar with a spotlight on technology, we explore the ways to improve performance and how better information leads to better decisions. In addition, you can download the five steps toward empowering your operations today.