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      • Business Owner Planning
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      • Tax-Aware Investing
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      • Tax-Aware Investing
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  • Home
  • Who We Help
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    • Financial Planning
    • Investment Management
    • Review Services
    • Business Owner Planning
    • Retirement Planning
    • Equity Compensation
    • Tax-Aware Investing
  • Our Process
  • About
  • Insights
    • Tax-Aware Investing
    • Planning for Businesses
    • Retirement Strategies
    • Investment Options
    • Portfolio Second Opinion
    • Roth Conversions

Business Owner Planning

Coordinate Your Business and Personal Financial Future

A business may be your largest asset, primary source of income, retirement plan, and future liquidity event. Decisions involving business cash flow, compensation, retirement plans, taxes, succession, and investing can therefore have a direct effect on personal financial security.


Foothills Investments helps business owners evaluate those decisions as part of one coordinated plan.

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Planning through the business lifecycle

Building

Balance reinvestment in the business with personal reserves, retirement savings, insurance, and risk management. 

Growing

Evaluate increasing cash flow, owner compensation, retirement-plan contributions, excess capital, and personal diversification. 

Preparing for Transition

Consider succession goals, ownership transfers, future liquidity, retirement readiness, and coordination with tax and legal professionals. 

Life After the Business

Develop a strategy for investing sale proceeds, generating retirement income, managing taxes, and preserving wealth. 

Planning areas

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Coordinate business distributions, personal spending, reserves, debt, and savings goals. 

Retirement Plan Strategy

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Evaluate plan design, contribution opportunities, employee considerations, and coordination with personal retirement goals. 

Tax-Aware Decision Support

Business and Personal Cash Flow

Tax-Aware Decision Support

Consider potential tax consequences when evaluating compensation, investments, benefits, and major transactions. 

Risk and Concentration

Succession and Transition

Tax-Aware Decision Support

Evaluate dependence on the business, liquidity needs, insurance considerations, and concentration of personal wealth. 

Succession and Transition

Succession and Transition

Succession and Transition

Prepare financially for a sale, internal transition, family transfer, or eventual retirement from the business. 

Professional Coordination

Succession and Transition

Succession and Transition

Work alongside the client’s tax, legal, insurance, and other professionals when appropriate. 

Professional coordination and conflict disclosure

With the client’s authorization, Foothills Investments may coordinate with the client’s CPA, attorney, insurance professional, banker, or other adviser.


Tax preparation and accounting services may also be obtained separately through Foothills Accountants, LLC, a commonly owned CPA firm. Shane Smith may receive additional compensation from Foothills Accountants when a client chooses those services. This creates a potential conflict of interest.


Clients are never required to use Foothills Accountants and may select any tax or accounting professional. All accounting and tax services require a separate engagement and separate fees.

Your Business Has Helped Build Your Wealth. Let's Build a Plan for What's Next.


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Foothills Investments, L.L.C. is a Colorado-registered investment adviser. Registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Advisory services are offered only where Foothills Investments and its investment adviser representatives are appropriately registered or exempt from registration. Investing involves risk, including the possible loss of principal. Past performance does not guarantee future results.


Information on this website is provided for general informational and educational purposes and should not be considered individualized investment, tax, legal, accounting, or insurance advice.


Tax preparation and accounting services may be provided separately through Foothills Accountants, LLC, a commonly owned firm. Clients are not required to use Foothills Accountants and may select any tax or accounting professional. Separate services require separate written engagements and fees.

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