EP 223: For Accountants: What Cannabis Owners Actually Pay Top Dollar For

👉 Finance professionals looking to get into cannabis accounting, get started here: https://go.dopecfo.com/get-started-6?... With cannabis newly rescheduled to Schedule III and tens of thousands of new operators about to need CFO-level guidance, the accountants who understand what owners actually pay for are the ones who will own this decade.Most accountants think clean books and monthly reports are the deliverable. Cannabis owners will tell you the exact opposite. They're not looking for reports. They're looking for a partner who helps them make decisions.In this episode, Andrew Hunzicker, CPA and founder of DOPE CFO shares insights from Joey Gindi, a 16-year cannabis retail operator with two dispensaries in Colorado.Joey walks a room full of accountants through exactly what the finance function looks like from the operator's chair, why he recently let go of a bookkeeper who was doing everything right on paper, and what he was really searching for instead.Joey and Andrew cover:Why Joey let go of his previous bookkeeper even though the books were clean and the reports were on time, and what he replaced him withA cannabis operator's decision filter framework: how every metric on a dashboard should tie directly to an operating decision, or it doesn't belong on the dashboardWhy owners fall out of the habit of looking at reports when the reports don't lead to decisions, and what a good finance partner does differentlyThis is what a real cannabis operator wants from their accountant. If you understand what Joey is describing, you can build a practice that owners fight to work with.👉 Get started here: https://go.dopecfo.com/get-started-6?...Connect with Joey on LinkedIn: / joey-gindi-740a6256