Funeral Director Daily

Funeral Home Budgeting — The revenue side

By Funeral Director Daily / December 2, 2020 /

As we told you yesterday, we are re-running our budgeting articles that received such good response from funeral home operators in November 2019.  Budgeting is, well, budgeting, but there are always new wrinkles to account for. While we have, for our example,  simply delineated our revenue numbers by cremation case or earth burial case, if…

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Service Corp to benefit military, Matthews corporate news and research, crematory opening in Maine after town vote

By Funeral Director Daily / December 1, 2020 /

Today’s Funeral Director Daily Afternoon Edition brings you some information about public companies in the news as well as a Maine community issuing the paperwork for the Midcoast Crematory to move forward to an operating mode. The article mentions that this has been accomplished “after multiple years of effort by Michael Hall of the Hall…

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Funeral Home Budgeting. . . the expense side

By Funeral Director Daily / December 1, 2020 /

I’m taking the time today and tomorrow to re-run articles from last November on funeral home budgeting.  I posted these articles last year and had many positive comments and since we have many new readers since then, I figure that maybe my thoughts on budgeting — both the expense side and the revenue side —…

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New national cemetery to open, Guidance on PPP loan expenses, Self-Care webinar available

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2020 /

We found a lot of information over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend that we thought was worthy of distribution to you.  Included in today’s message you will find information on our nation’s newest veteran’s cemetery to be dedicated today in western New York state.  The cemetery, eleven years in the making, has been designed to serve…

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A couple of choices for future success in the death care space

By Funeral Director Daily / November 30, 2020 /

Now that I’ve finished reporting on the quarterly reports of the large “established” companies in the death care realm, I thought it would be interesting to give my insight on a couple of  companies  that I think have a great potential to  “grow” into larger companies or services in the future. And while Tribute Technology…

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Matthews reports 4Q and Year End 2020: Memorialization segment is high point

By Funeral Director Daily / November 27, 2020 /

Our reports for the period of July thru September 2020 come to an end with today’s report on Matthews International.  Funeral Director Daily files reports every quarter on the eight public companies that make up our financial Death Care Index (DCI). Today’s report on Matthew’s International, which you can access here, encompasses the mentioned time…

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Give Thanks this Thanksgiving

By Funeral Director Daily / November 24, 2020 /

I’m kind of tired of the word “unprecedented”.  It seems every time that I turn around someone is using that term in relation to the world and times we have been living in since February in the United States.  Yes, 2020 is different, but I’m not so sure that it is “unprecedented” for the upstaging…

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Possible financial settlement in Michigan funeral home transgender case reported

By Funeral Director Daily / November 24, 2020 /

A little over a year ago we told you of the case of Aimee Stephens and the Harris Funeral Home.  That court case was about to be heard at the United States Supreme Court at that time which would be ruling on whether or not there had been discrimination against a transgender person in a…

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Security National reports 3Q 2020: Hitting on all cylinders

By Funeral Director Daily / November 23, 2020 /

We continue to roll out the earnings reports of the public death care companies and today is no exception.  Today we tell you about one of the quieter companies that is starting to make a name for themselves as they grow. That company is Utah based Security National Financial Corporation (SNFC) and divisions of the…

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2020 and the realities of smaller cemeteries. . . Netherlands recommends alkaline hydrolysis

By Funeral Director Daily / November 23, 2020 /

Over the last couple of years that I have published Funeral Director Daily, I’ve written on this topic a couple of times.  “This topic” is that of smaller association cemeteries and the financial plights more and more of them seem to be falling into.  I limit this discussion to “association cemeteries” simply because church cemeteries,…

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