Dan Isard

Generally, the rule is that you must pay your taxes as you go. If you have not paid enough income taxes by filing time, you may have to pay a penalty for underpayment.  To determine whether you need to make estimates, answer these 3 questions: Accounting Newsletter March 2015

“The number one thing cemeteries are doing wrong is not reaching people, assuming there’s no need for memorialization,” said Dan Isard, president of The Foresight Companies. “A cemetery is not just a point of interment, it’s a point of memories. We don’t go to a cemetery to visit our loved one who is buried there because we want to see their casket. We’re looking at the ground, remembering their life, remembering the memories. The same is true whether the body is cremated or buried.”

Funeral homes and cemeteries have gone from being sure-fire, profit-generators, to being management challenges in danger of losing money, if not going out of business entirely.  Here’s what you need to do about the situation. Rescue me-The 5 changes the funeral & cemetery professions must make – ICCFA March April 2015

Recently, I was invited to speak at the Fourth Annual Cremation Strategies Conference, sponsored by Kates-Boylston Publications.  Being invited to speak on cremation to a room filled with death-care professionals, all of whom provide cremation services to families each and every week, is a daunting assignment. The Reality Primer of the Cremation Business – ACC March 2015

In our February issue of AccountAbility (Accounting newsletter renamed), Diane DeClercq gives 5 tips for getting the most out of your relationship with your accountant. Accounting Newsletter February 2015