Financial Planning for Business Owners

Your business is not just another account. It is part of the broader picture.

Planning for business owners who want more clarity around income, tax, retained earnings, insurance, retirement, estate planning, and long-term decisions.

Bryan Cresswell · BBA Accounting · CFP® · CLU® · BC & Alberta

Good planning connects the pieces.

  • How much to pay yourself personally
  • What to do with retained earnings
  • How business wealth may support retirement income
  • How insurance, estate, and tax planning fit together
  • How to coordinate decisions with your accountant and lawyer
What planning helps clarify

The best decisions are usually connected.

A business owner’s financial life often includes the corporation, personal cash flow, family goals, tax planning, risk, investments, and estate decisions.

Income

Salary, dividends, and cash flow

Understand how personal income needs and corporate decisions fit together.

Capital

Retained earnings and corporate cash

Think through how corporate capital may support flexibility, growth, and long-term wealth.

Future

Retirement, insurance, and estate

Coordinate future income, protection, wealth transfer, and family planning decisions.

Advice before implementation

Planning should be valuable before any product is ever considered.

Through FocalPoint Financial Group Inc., planning costs can be paid directly, separate from product implementation, so the process can begin with clarity, coordination, and advice-first thinking.

Free planning checklist

Get the Business Owner Planning Checklist.

A short guide to help you think through the key planning questions around your corporation, retained earnings, income, tax, insurance, retirement, and estate decisions.

After submitting the form, you can receive the checklist and decide whether a planning conversation would be useful.

Formal planning engagements are delivered through FocalPoint Financial Group Inc. Submitting this form does not create a client relationship.