AADOM Radio-THE Podcast For Dental Managers

Episode 68-AADOM Radio-Managing Overhead in a Dental Office - Post Covid w/Allen Schiff, CPA, FCE

Episode Summary

Covid has made a major impact on dental offices everywhere. Next year, offices will need to focus on finding ways to rebound and navigate through what has happened in 2020. In this podcast, Allen Schiff will speak to ways the office can manage overhead within the practice. He will help practices identify what is overhead and how to measure it, while also explaining what KPIs to monitor and shoot for.

Episode Notes

AADOM Radio & Care Credit Present:

Allen Schiff, CPA, CPE

Key Learning Objectives:

Identifying your overhead
How to measure your overhead
What KPI’s should you be shooting for?

More About Allen:

Allen Schiff is the managing member of Schiff & Associates, LLC (S&A). Prior to forming S&A, Allen was a partner with Smart & Associates (formerly Grabush, Newman) for 30 years and was their practice leader for dental practice management services. Allen has over 35 years of experience in the areas of dental practice management. Allen's services include business planning to include obtaining financing, succession planning, exit strategies and long-range planning. Allen has assisted dentists with practice acquisitions, start-ups, operational analysis and associate contract analysis.

Allen received his BS degree in accounting from the University of Baltimore (June 1975) and is an accomplished speaker on topics such as dental practice management, transition planning, choosing a dental CPA, obtaining financing, identifying embezzlement in the workplace and business start-ups.

Allen has published numerous articles within the dental industry and can frequently be seen in Dental Economics, as he is a contributing writer to the magazine. In 1998, Allen earned the designation of Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), having the expertise to resolve allegations of fraud, obtain evidence, take statements, write reports, testify to findings and assist in the detection and prevention of fraud and white-collar crime. Recently, Allen has received the SMART CEO award 6 out of the last 7 years as one of the Top CPA’s in the State of Maryland, most recently awarded in May 2015.

Allen is the President of the Academy of Dental CPAs (www.adcpa.org). This group of very knowledgeable CPA firms across the nation specializes in practice management services to the dental industry. He serves on the ADCPA Executive Committee and is Chairperson of the ADCPA Marketing & New Members Committees. The ADCPA combines its outstanding resources and expertise to share information and jointly develop resources to better serve the dental community.

Allen enjoys sharing his dental practice management knowledge. He has presented numerous times to the ADA (American Dental Association), the AGD (Academy of General Dentistry), AAPD (American Academy of Pediatric Dentists), ASDA (American Student Dental Association), local Mid-Atlantic societies, as well as various dental study clubs. For the last 34 years, Allen has taught at a local dental school as well as 8 other national dental schools on the subject of dental practice management. Allen is a current Board Member of the Maryland State Dental Association Foundation as well as a Consultant to the ADA (September 2019)

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