Tax & Accounting Services
If you’re looking for a firm that will focus on your individual needs, and always treat you like a client who matters, look no further. Our firm is large enough to offer a full range of professional services, but small enough to give you the individual attention that you deserve.
We will thoroughly and conscientiously study your personal situation, and tailor our advice to your specific needs.
Accounting Software Selection & Implementation
Sifting through the vast array of accounting software systems available today can feel overwhelming. The best solution for your business will deliver the capabilities you need through a verified secure platform, without making you overpay for features you will never use.
We will analyze your business sector, current transactions, future plans and emerging needs, helping you to identify a software solution that balances ease of use with the flexibility to grow with your company. We will also evaluate your current technology to help you determine whether your business would be best served by locally-hosted software or a software subscription plan (Software as a Service (SaaS)).
Once you have selected the best solution for you, we will work with key personnel throughout your organization to implement the system. By ensuring that everyone knows how to best use the new software, we can help you get the most out of your investment, while maintaining security for all your critical financial data.
Bookkeeping/Write-Up
If your business does not currently have accounting staff or if your business is outgrowing its current bookkeeping system, we can provide comprehensive bookkeeping and write-up services to ensure the smooth operation of the financial side of your business. As your business needs grow and change, we can provide input and planning assistance to make sure your accounting and financial systems keep pace with your business needs.
Business Consulting
Business success depends on timely identification of both problems and opportunities, and efficient development of strategies to respond to both. As your trusted business consultant, we combine dedication to your success with wide-ranging business acumen to offer honest, objective advice on everything from minor restructuring to preparing a business for sale.
We will take the time to learn about your company’s unique challenges, goals and current strategies. We then draw on years of business analysis experience to help you address inefficiencies, and identify and capitalize on hidden growth potential. We empower you and your team to make well-informed choices for the future of your business.
Whether you need short-term assistance with a major transition, or a long-term partner in strategic planning, we can help you unlock the full potential of your business.
Buying or Selling a Business
The decision to buy or sell a company can shape your future for years or even decades. The buying/selling process requires careful valuation, an exhaustive due diligence process, and in-depth research to determine the right timing for the transfer.
When the time comes to explore selling your business, we will provide support for you and your staff at every step. Our services include accurately valuing the company, vetting potential buyers, and ensuring that qualified buyers have easy access to all the information they need to fulfill due diligence obligations.
We will also partner with you when a promising opportunity to acquire a business presents itself. Our valuation services and support for due diligence give you the peace of mind of knowing that the targeted company is what it appears to be.
Estate & Trust Tax Preparation
Estate matters affect everyone. By taking proactive steps today, you can ease the way for your heirs during a very difficult time. Our services include estate planning to simplify property transfers to heirs, minimizing tax liability so heirs receive the maximum benefit, and tax preparation after a loved ones’ passing.
We will work with you and your attorney to structure your estate and/or trusts with an eye toward minimizing tax liability, smooth fulfillment of your bequeathal directives and, when possible, avoidance of the long process of probate. In the event that you wish to begin distributing assets to your heirs during your lifetime, we can also assist with IRS gift reporting requirements.
When a loved one passes away, we can prepare and file any required final tax returns for the decedent and any associated trusts. We lift the paperwork burden off your shoulders, so you can focus on the far more important matter of spending time with your family during a difficult transition.
IRS Representation
Whether you receive an audit notice or just a request for clarification about an item on your personal or business tax return, the thought of facing the IRS by yourself can be overwhelming. Unfortunately, many tax preparers are not prepared to represent you before the IRS. If a problem arises with a return they filed for you, you might be left on your own to resolve the issue.
We will advocate on your behalf and help you and your staff assemble any documentation that IRS agents might request, so that you are never fending for yourself.
By drawing upon years of experience handling audit procedures and tax rules, we can take the stress out of working with IRS agents, and ensure that your rights as a taxpayer are protected and that you pay the minimum allowed by law.
Notary Public
A notary public can help you to handle various business matters, including witnessing and authenticating document execution and signatures.
Many contracts and other business documents require notarization in order to take effect. If your company does not have an in-house notary public, we can provide one whenever needed. Even when notarization is not legally required, having a notary public witness and authenticate the execution of an agreement ensures that your company’s interests will be well protected if the terms of the agreement are ever disputed.
We can also provide useful services for your staff, including authenticating absentee ballots and legal documents. Offering this service to your personnel can reduce lost worker-hours, as employees will not need to find a notary public at a bank or other institution.
Payroll Services
Payroll administration poses ongoing challenges for business owners, due to constantly changing federal, state, and local tax laws and other regulations. Often, highly impactful changes to payroll management rules and procedures occur during times of economic distress, when your key personnel’s attention is divided between a wide array of issues.
Our payroll services professionals will work with your staff to implement sound payroll administration practices that can be swiftly adapted whenever the need arises. We closely monitor changes in payroll regulations, tax laws, and compliance requirements, ensuring that your business stays informed and compliant with any updates that could impact your payroll processes and employees.
By ensuring that payroll runs smoothly through every change in regulations, economic realities, and the size of your staff, we can help you stay focused on growing your business.
Tax Preparation & Planning
Effective tax preparation and planning can help you to minimize your future tax liability. Taxes may be a certainty in life, but worrying about them doesn’t have to be. For individuals, we can save you time, money and stress by preparing and filing your returns, while claiming every allowable deduction and credit. For businesses, we can help by minimizing your tax liability, while ensuring that you stay in compliance with all federal, state and local regulations.
Accurate and timely filing of returns is only the beginning of an effective tax strategy, however. Every personal or business financial decision, from buying a house to selling investment holdings, from expanding staff to replacing aging equipment, can have significant tax implications. Successful tax planning rests on understanding all of these impacts before the decision is made, so that you can act at the most advantageous time. Let us show you how.
Our country’s ever-changing tax code places heavy burdens on both individuals and companies, but it also holds extraordinary opportunities if you know where to look. Our experts are here to guide you along the path from basic tax compliance to a strategy for long-term tax minimization.