My name is Mark Goodfield. Welcome to The Blunt Bean Counter ™, a blog that shares my thoughts on income taxes, finance and the psychology of money. I am a Chartered Professional Accountant. This blog is meant for everyone, but in particular for high net worth individuals and owners of private corporations. My posts are blunt, opinionated and even have a twist of humour/sarcasm. You've been warned. Please note the blog posts are time sensitive and subject to changes in legislation or law.

Monday, December 14, 2015

Getting Your Financial Affairs in Order

I was recently interviewed about my book Let's Get Blunt About Your Financial Affairs, by Promod Sharma, a Toronto based actuary, for his Tea at Taxevity series. The interview ended up being as much about my opinions on the importance of getting your financial affairs in order as about the specifics of my book. If I do say so myself, I think the interview is interesting and informative (especially considering you have an accountant being interviewed by an actuary; who would have imagined :).

I thought today, instead of writing, I would link to this interview, so you can actually hear my views on the topic. By the way, and you can believe it or not, that empty space from the bottom of my forehead to the top of my head once was full of flowing locks - big sigh.

Enough about being “follicly-challenged". Here is the interview, I hope that it spurs you to take action and you get your financial affairs in order.





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6 comments:

  1. Thanks for being a guest, Mark. Maybe you'll spur people to make New Year Resolutions — and keep them!

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    1. Thx Promod, thx for the insightful questions. Happy Holidays and Happy New year

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  2. As usual your normal erudite self, you should be on the chat show circuit, with Preet & Kerry telling folks what needs to be done to get their houses in order!

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    1. Damn right!!! How much do u charge for agent fees. Only thing is I am not as pretty as those two :)

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  3. Great stuff! Long-time reader of TBBC and just finishing up our family's estate planning. It was a lot more work than I thought it would be, but at least it's mostly set-it-and-forget-it.

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    1. Exactly, once done you just need to update and it is done god forbid something happens

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