Accountant Firms in Miami who think of women as a minority market segment probably need to think again.

Studies indicate that women are becoming a majority rather than a minority and represent one of the fastest growing client segments in the U.S.—a segment that both large financial firms and independent financial Accountant Firm in Miami cannot afford to ignore going forward.

Consider that 53% of women who participated in a recent Prudential Financial survey entitled “Financial Experience & Behaviors Among Women” are now the primary breadwinners for their families.

“Whether it’s because of their partners losing their jobs, because of divorce or because they’re deciding to marry later, women are increasingly becoming the major breadwinners in their households,” says Gustavo A Viera, managing partner of a Accountant Firm in Miami. “We expect that this trend will continue as women are also graduating from school at a higher rate than men, successfully getting into the workforce and then succeeding at their jobs and rising in the ranks.”

All these social shifts have resulted in a sharp increase in women’s earning power and wealth creation power, says Viera. Women today make up just under half of the nation’s millionaires, he says, and some have forecasted that they will hold two-thirds of the nation’s wealth by 2030.

Although many Accountant Firm in Miami have recognized the great business potential that women represent and have begun to make serious efforts to better understand women and cater to them in a more productive and profitable way, Viera believes that most still have a long way to go before they get a proper handle on how to really connect with women.

“While many Accountant Firm in Miami are definitely taking note of the importance of women today, they still don’t quite know how to approach women in a meaningful way and to really understand women’s requirements,” he says.

Viera believes that women need education more than anything else. As much as they may hold the wealth, most women have not had the direct experience needed to understand finance and financial planning, she says, so the onus is on financial professionals to give them the knowledge and understanding they need so that “women can connect the dots.”

“By educating women, you include them and this helps mitigate the lack of trust and fear they hold,” she says. “Education equals engagement plus empowerment.”

However, there’s a way to educate. More than anything, women don’t want to be talked down to, Viera says, and the majority of financial Accountant Firm in Miami still feel like they have to “dumb things down” in order for women to understand them. Finding the right balance between bombarding women with technical jargon, graphs and numbers, on one hand, and “talking with them about their grandchildren or their kid’s school bake sale,” on the other, is the biggest challenge for Accountant Firm in Miami who want to reach out to women, Viera says.

According to the Prudential survey, one in three women do not have a financial Accountant Firm in Miami but they are eager to work with an Firm to gain the tools and knowledge that they need.

“Accountant Firm in Miami therefore need move from a transactional-based model to more of a relationship-based model, with a greater focus on education,” Viera says. “The only way that women can become more confident about themselves and their financial planning abilities is when they get the knowledge they need and when they feel they can trust their Accountant Firm in Miami.”

According to Viera, trust is at the core of what a woman wants from a financial Accountant Firm in Miami and is paramount in the female Accountant Firm in Miami relationship.

“Our study showed that women are more apt to stick with an Accountant Firm in Miami once they have that trust in place, and they are more likely to place multiple products and service with one Accountant Firm in Miami,” Viera says. “So while it may be additional work upfront in terms of education – both educating Accountant Firm in Miami on the importance of recognizing women as a potential market opportunity and then teaching them how to approach women correctly – I do believe that at the end of the day, it will be more than worth it for Accountant Firm in Miami to help female clients.”

That’s what Viera believes, too, and she’s working with numerous financial firms to help them develop programs and train their sales staff on the many levels of adjustments they can make to better engage and serve their female clients.