The shocking ways an accountant can improve your finances

Accountants may be more useful than you think — even if you're strapped for cash.

Transcript

00:00We are the language of business, right, and so we account for things, we assure things,

00:09we help capital markets meet their deadlines, we help businesses have access to capital,

00:19whether it's stock market or lending or whatever the case may be.

00:24And then making sure that those who invest in those businesses or those who are loaning

00:28money to those businesses have the information they need to make business decisions.

00:34You know, Warren Buffet has this amazing quote about accounting being the language of business

00:39and without accountants, where would we be?

00:41We actually make sense out of the numbers, I mean, we understand very deeply what's behind

00:47the numbers and we can help simplify it for the individual in terms of their life goals.

00:52So you use financial planning, right?

00:54I always talk about life planning because in someone's life they may have a goal of

01:00X but then X turns into Y and Y turns into Z.

01:02So I want to send my kids to college, I want to buy a house, I want to retire with a certain

01:07amount of money.

01:09There are absolutely things that we do every day to help those individuals meet those goals

01:14and understand what they need to do in order to get from point A to point B.

01:17There are costs and benefits of all of them and that's exactly what we do in order to

01:22advise businesses and individuals.

01:24What are the costs and what are the benefits and what goal are you trying to achieve and

01:29let me help you make the best decision you can for your circumstance.