Black Diamond Wealth Platform
PPWG™ is proud to partner with a financial technology company like Black Diamond and have them be a part of our team. Black Diamond® Wealth Platform has been around since their launch in 2005 and are considered to be one of top cloud-based financial technology companies currently out. Paragon Private Wealth Group™ has partnered with Black Diamond to help streamline our operations and deliver better up to date insights for our clients.
By partnering with Black Diamond, it allows us to put more focus on what our client’s needs are. It enables us to act as a true fiduciary and help you through your entire wealth journey and give you the client experience you want.
Black Diamond gives us a comprehensive wealth management platform that enables us and our clients for success not only today but for the future. The platform is cloud-based and has intuitive dashboards. Beyond that, data is updated and automated daily and enhancements and updates are implemented every six weeks.
By utilizing the Black Diamond® Wealth Platform, we give our clients a home for their financial journey. This platform gives full insight into their complete wealth picture. Beyond that, the platform is fully customizable, visually compelling, secure and accessible at any time.
We at PPWG believe Black Diamond to be the ultimate business partner by combining high tech with high touch. Beyond that, the vast network of integrated solutions empowers us to build a tech stack that saves our clients time and enriches the overall experience.
What to Expect from Cash Flow Analysis as a PPWG client?
PPWG works directly with our business owners to incorporate cash flow analyses into our financial plan. Additionally, we are able to use our robust financial reporting software to deliver customized reporting developed individually for each client. Through a thoughtful analysis, this allows us to form defined tranches.
More simply put, this creates time frames to help you have a defined plan to accomplish goals. This process allows PPWG to properly invest assets while mitigating unnecessary risk. In our current interest rate environment, we find this practice to be vital in having an investment plan that directly adheres and adapts to your business.
Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab is another company that Paragon Private Wealth Group is proud to partner with. They truly empower our firm to allow us to put clients first. They allow PPWG to truly act as a fiduciary and offer us the resources we need to get the best for our clients.
For over 30 years, Charles Schwab has been an instrumental partner for independent investment advisors. Their main goal has always been their commitment to the success of these independent advisors and has never faltered.
Charles Schwab offers a specialized consulting team specific for PPWG. Giving us a blueprint to not only reach our firm’s goals but enabling us to exceed our client’s goals.
Charles Schwab is always innovating and improving their technology. Their goal is to try to provide high value technology and insights with little to no cost to their clients. They bring everything together from consulting and education to technology and insights. Delivering a truly exceptional client experience for anyone that works with Schwab.
What is Cash Flow Analysis?
Cash flow analysis is a financial report that archives the money flowing in and out of your business. This report will account for a specific prearranged time period. By reporting this data, it enables you to comprehend where your funds are going. It also allow you to see how much money you have on hand at any given time.
It is important that Cash Flow Analysis is routinely done. It’s recommended to be done at least once per month to guarantee your business has a healthy cash budget. Also, by utilizing a Cash Flow Analysis you can help avoid pitfalls and manage your day to day more effectively.
By monitoring your company’s cash flow you’re establishing a healthy business. Cash Flow Analysis allows your company to do a deep dive into your financial health.
Like anything else, the longer you do Cash Flow Analysis, the more you’ll learn from it. Your business will start to see patterns from these different statements. You can plan for pitfalls that might arise by seeing when you have more cash on hand than other times. Cash Flow Analysis is also a great tool in determining the overall value of your business.
The cash flow statement delivers information about three kinds of business activities: operations, investments and financing.
- Operations explains how much money you’ve received versus how much you’ve spent. It compares the numbers from sales and services versus how much you’ve used to cover payroll, vendor invoices, taxes, etc. Operations primarily focuses on your standard business transactions.
- Investments deal with cash flow for capital expenditures (equipment or property) or any other purchases related to stocks or other investments.
- Financing will show the data about cash proceeds from loans, installment payments and cash transactions with company owners.
With a proper cash flow analysis you’ll be able to cover these three topics. From there you’ll be able to get a clear picture of how your business is doing during a set period of time.
Envestnet MoneyGuide
Envestnet MoneyGuide is another financial software company that Paragon Private Wealth Group partners with help us make sound financial strategies for our clients. Envestnet MoneyGuide’s main goal focuses on helping advisors use financial planning to more effectively motivate each client to create, apply and sustain an investment plan that best meets their overall financial goals.
MoneyGuide’s software is an internet-based financial planning software that enables a unique client-centered approach. Being a fiduciary ourselves, you can see why MoneyGuide is a vital partner to our firm. The software offers a goal-based planning approach, making it more meaningful for the client and much easier to work with from a firm standpoint.
Although Envestnet MoneyGuide develops this software specifically for advisors, it is their belief that everyone should benefit from the professional financial advice. The software they use doesn’t replace the advisor, but instead enhances their value with a more complete financial planning process. At their core, they’re a financial software company, but their goal is to improve the financial lives of anyone that has access to their product.
Benefits of Cash Flow Analysis
Have Cash On Hand
By maintaining a Cash Flow Analysis your business is able to have adequate cash reserves. By knowing when you have cash on hand, you can make important decisions such as when you want to resupply on products or raw materials without incurring interest on those items. You can also ensure you have enough cash on hand for when bills come around so you don’t run into pitfalls.
Manage Your Credit
By maintaining a Cash Flow Analysis your business is better able to manage your credit. You can ensure you have enough credit available when it comes time to pay bills or request a loan without incurring penalties or higher interest rates.
Prevent Production Interuption
Cash Flow Analysis can help you make adjustments to keep your business up and running. It allows you to see if you need to make an adjustment or move funds from one area to another to keep your business operating. This can help prevent production interruptions.
Acts as a Roadmap to Hit Your Goals
One of the most important advantages a Cash Flow Analysis offers is that it will show if your business is on target for your goals. It allows you to plan accordingly and make adjustments to ensure that you can hit those goals.
Titleist Asset Management LTD.
Titleist Asset Management LTD is another proud partner of Paragon Private Wealth Group that enables us to have access to top-tier clearing and custody, industry leading technology and access to a team of investment professionals that specialize in securities analysis, financial planning and portfolio management. The Titleist process is constantly evolving with economic and market conditions. They take the time to gauge the advantages of all strategies and recognize there are strengths in most and weaknesses in all. Titleist embraces unconventional ways of thinking all while adhering to the core pillars of successful investing – diversification, tax efficiency, transparency and low fees.
With Titleist as a partner, PPWG is better enabled to assign probabilities to various outcomes and make investment decisions based on a distribution curve of those outcomes. By using this data-driven approach, it allows Titleist and us to assign those probabilities and the likelihood of their outcomes.
Titleist also enables us to customize our allocations and investments specifically for each client. They consider the individual client and their unique profile to be the key determinant in both allocation and securities that they’ll suggest.
FAQ’s Regarding Cash Flow Analysis
This can occur when your expenditures are more than your income. This will usually occur when receivables are mismanaged. If your cash flow is negative for a temporary time that is fine, but repeated results of a negative cash flow could end in a failed business.
Levered cash flow is essentially money that is debt free. The money is not owed to any individual and is usually available to stockholders or investors of your company.
There are several factors that can lead to cash flow problems. But here are some signs you may want to keep a lookout for:
- Relying on one or two customers to pay large bills in order to get you through the month/quarter.
- You aren’t getting discounts on any of your bills
- You have a lot of short-term debt
- You have more product than you can sell.
Net income is overall income minus expenses in an accounting period. Cash flow is determined by changes in cash balances from one accounting period to the next.
Cash flow analysis is important for your business as it can help give you the data you need to know about how much cash you need to pay your bills, buy supplies, pay your employees and keep your business operating.
It’s not easy but there are good habits to form to help improve your business’s cash flow. The first thing you need to make sure of is that your company is profitable. In other words, you need to sell more than what you spend. Some other good practices include watching your debt and cutting costs where you are able to. Ensure you negotiate with your vendors to get the best terms possible for your business. Try to build up your reserves when you can to try and help in dire times.
To do a cash flow analysis you will need to make a cash flow statement that allows you to analyze how much money is coming in and out of your business. You will want to break down your operating expenses, investments, and financing to see where your business spends and earns money.
