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Educational comparison

Same collections. Different take-home.

A published comparison follows two general practices with similar collections and examines the overhead lines behind their different financial pictures.

The comparison is educational, not a forecast or a promise of results for your practice.

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Published case study · P&L analysis

Same collections. Different take-home.

A published comparison follows two general practices with similar collections and examines the overhead lines behind their different financial pictures.

Read the analysis
Overhead · Supplies

What a small supply-cost gap looks like in dollars.

How a small percentage difference changes the economics of a dental practice.

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Overhead · Hygiene

Hygiene wages: the percentage is not the whole question.

The context behind a payroll ratio, and which numbers are worth reading together.

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Tax strategy · Cash flow

Plan for taxes before April arrives.

Why tax timing belongs in a practice's cash-flow conversation all year.

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Overhead · Margin

62% overhead is average. 55% changes the economics.

Seven percentage points is $140,000 a year at $2M in collections. Why the goal is productive overhead, not the lowest overhead.

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Tax strategy · Equipment

Section 179 can change the timing. It should not decide the purchase.

A deduction improves a good equipment investment but cannot rescue a bad one. The order to run the decision in, and the December detail that catches owners.

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Tax strategy · Retirement

Your retirement plan could be doing more than you think.

When a cash balance plan makes sense for a high-earning dentist, what it commits the practice to, and why cash flow comes first.

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Real estate · Capital

Should you own your dental practice building?

Every month you pay rent you are already making a real estate decision. How to tell whether owning is the better use of your capital.

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Tax strategy · Family payroll

Your teenager can earn $15K from your practice. Do it properly.

Paying your child through the practice can be legitimate. The work, the pay and the payroll have to be real.

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Tax strategy · Augusta Rule

Rent your home to your practice for 14 days. Tax free.

How the Augusta Rule works for practice owners, what it takes to document, and why small wins compound.

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Tax strategy · Planning

Your CPA is grading your past. Who is designing your future?

Filing reports what happened. Strategy happens while the decisions can still be changed.

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Filling You In · Guest appearance

Financial Trends in Dental Practices: Austin Moffat of DSO CFO

A conversation featuring Austin Moffat of DSO CFO on practice finances.

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Dental.MBA · Guest appearance

Dental.MBA episode 21: Austin Moffat

Episode 21 features Austin Moffat discussing the financial side of running a practice.

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Guest conversations are hosted by the publishers named above; they are not episodes of a DSO CFO-produced show.

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