Important Legal Basics CPAs Need to Know (Currently Unavailable)

Increasingly, financial professionals counsel clients have valuable, but intangible, intellectual property assets. These assets, such as patents, trademarks or copyrights, can add significantly to a client's bottom line, but each behaves and is valued very differently.

As a financial professional, you see contracts of all kinds, for your own business and for your clients' businesses. You may think that most contracts are written in an arcane language, penetrable only by lawyers. You may think that most contracts are too ironclad to change. You may accept contract boilerplate without understanding it. If so, you are putting yourself at risk and costing yourself time and money.