"Need Controller-Level Services without a Controller Salary Price Tag?"

"Do you need help in financial areas such as cash flow, interpreting financial statements, or setting up key performance metrics?"

"Is your business too small for a full time Controller, yet in increasing need of more financial expertise and guidance?"

"Could you use professional accounting and financial advice in your small business?"
"If you said yes to any of these questions, then you may benefit from our Controller services. We can help you fill in the missing management-level gaps in your accounting team without you having to pay expensive full time executive level salaries."

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Keeping the Cash Flowing

One of the most challenging tasks of small business owners is managing their cash balances. We can help you get the right tools in place so you can stay on top of your cash. Whether it's setting up the right reporting, creating forecasts, or preparing a loan package for your local bank, we can help you keep your cash flowing.

Behind the Controls

Small business accounting functions often lack the internal controls and procedures to help prevent fraud, theft, and other risks to your hard-earned assets. That means your business assets, from cash to inventory to receivables, could be at greater risk of being mishandled.

We can review the duties of each bookkeeper and make suggestions to procedure changes that will lower your risk and help you better protect your business assets.

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Process Development & Improvement

Are there any areas in your accounting functions that are undocumented? We can help you write a procedures manual for those areas.

We can also take a look at areas within your accounting system that are costing you more than they should be. These could include areas of duplicate data entry, time spent on manual reports, and bottlenecks in general. We'll suggest improvements that can save your time and money and keep your bookkeeping bill as low as possible.

Profitability Analysis

Do you wonder which product or service line is the most profitable for you? We can perform an analysis of profitability by location, product, employee, or whatever grouping is meaningful for you. This information will help you make better decisions about your revenue mix and make your business more profitable in the long term.

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Planning and Budgeting

Do you know exactly what you want your business to look like in three to five years, but are not sure how to get there? We can help you make sense of the financial piece of planning so you can achieve your dreams.

In the short term, we can also help you create a budget for your business so you can control expenses and see where you stand relative to your goals.

Team Training

If you don't have the time or expertise to train your bookkeeping or accounting staff, we can provide the training they need to become proficient in their accounting duties.

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Real Estate & Equipment Acquisition

Planning a large investment? We can help you compare and evaluate your options from a financial standpoint so you can make an informed decision.

Sounding Board

It can be difficult to find good advice when you are in business for yourself. Friends and spouses who are not self-employed don't often understand the decisions we make. As a fellow small business owner, we can act as a sounding board for your business ideas.

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At Your Service

Accounting

Accounting

CPA/Accounting

Our general ledger and bookkeeping services will get your recordkeeping in order. Generally, our clients see improvements in the bottom line with our accounting because we not only keep your books in order, but also have the expertise to help you analyze what they mean to improve your business. Learn more . . .

Whether it's a personal CFO for your complex, multigenerational family finances, or help for your small business that isn't quite big enough for a full-time Controller, we can help. Get the expertise of a full-time CFO/Controller without the cost. Learn more . . .

Your staff is the lifeblood of your organization, but making sure they get paid on time is only a small part of payroll implementation. Failure to timely and properly make payroll tax payments is one of the top reasons businesses become insolvent. And, we have the expertise to do more than just process your payroll and payroll tax; our comprehensive business background means we can help guide you on how to optimize your payroll expense to achieve more, answering questions such as: Is your payroll expense reasonable for your type of business? Should I give bonuses or raises? How can I implement retirement or insurance benefits with the biggest bang-for-the-buck? Learn more . . .

We are a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor. Whether it is Quickbooks consulting, QuickBooks training for your staff, or QuickBooks implementation by our staff, we are ready and able to assist you. Learn more . . .

Business Advisory

Business Advisory

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As Certified Public Accountants, we can help you with all aspects of your business accounting from Bookkeeping and General Accounting to Controller Services, Payroll Services, QuickBooks, and Tax. In fact, we have an entire division that deals with solely accounting and tax. Learn more . . .

Whether you want to set up an LLC, S-Corp, C-Corp, or some other structure, we'd be happy to assist you with the formation including obtaining your Articles of Organization, obtaining an Employer Identification Number (EIN), tax registration, obtaining a business license, and more. We can even help you with your marketing plan and business plan. Learn more . . .

A business plan or evaluation of your current business implementation strategies can often be much more helpful than you think. Whether it's marketing or operations we've managed multimillion-dollar budgets for these items and helped numerous businesses with everything from the Four P's of Marketing to completing a SWOT Analysis or Pro Forma Income Statement. Learn more . . .

Thinking of selling your business? Perhaps you're looking to buy? Maybe, you want to pass things on to the next generation! Whatever your business transition, sale, or acquisition need, we've helped numerous clients with every aspect from inventory counts and financial statement review, to market analysis, real estate disposition, and multigenerational asset transition.

We have significant experience with the implementation and management of various employer retirement plans. Whether you are a sole proprietor or have a team of hundreds, we can help you select the right plan for your company and implement it. We've advised and managed plans including 401k, SIMPLE, SEP, and more. We were working under the new ERISA fiduciary rules years before they were required. Furthermore, we can educate you on any potential liabilities you may have as a plan sponsor, how to limit those liabilities, and even help educate you and your employees on individual investment selection.

Financial and Estate Planning

Financial and Estate Planning

Financial Planning

For many firms, asset management and investment management are synonymous terms, however, for Eddleman clients, asset management means we consider and advise you on liquid investments and other items of monetary value, considering both simultaneously. What does that mean? It means when advising you on your IRA investments, we also consider the 401k at your current employer as well as the real estate you inherited from your parents, and the small business that you own.

Most people have dreams for the future and for many of those dreams, their accomplishment is at least influenced if not completely determined by financial decisions. Financial Planning means understanding where you are today and where you want to be tomorrow and then helping you to chart a course to get there. It's much more than just stacking the money as high as possible. It's about making tough decisions such as whether to pay of the house early and how that may impact both your retirement and funding the kid's college.

Retirement Planning is really very different for everyone. For some, retirement means not working at all. However, for most, even those with the financial ability to not "have to" work, retirement means having the ability to do what you want, when you want. That may be taking a trip with the grandchildren, opening that small business you always dreamed of, perhaps even working when you want, and doing what you love regardless of the pay.

You've worked hard, saved, invested, and realized the financial success of the labor and planning. Now, you need an advisor who can make sure the wealth you've established has the best opportunity of doing its job. Perhaps you're concerned with how to establish the same ethics in the next generation before handing the assets over or maybe you're unsure whether to just donate those funds or establish your own foundation. Whatever your dream for your wealth, we understand there's a lot more to wealth management than balancing risk/return, cutting checks, and minimizing taxes.

Managing risk is much more complex than most people realize and plays a much more central role in reaching financial objectives than most realize. And, whether you realize it or not, you take risk every day with your finances and other parts of your life.

 

The first step to managing financial risks with both your investments and other aspects of your finances is understanding what those risks are and then deciding whether those risks can/should be eliminated, avoided, minimized, or mitigated. We have extensive experience in helping you analyze and manage investment risk. Furthermore, we don't sell insurance because we prefer not to interject bias into our advice, however, we have significant knowledge and understanding of insurance should you wish to consider using it to mitigate certain financial risks. Finally, we understand the more complex aspects of risk management with techniques such as corporate formation.

No, we don't sell or broker real estate or other hard assets, but our significant knowledge of real estate management and disposition can help you. And, unlike so many other advisors today who primarily focus on liquid assets, we'll advise you regarding other hard assets such as the precious metals, Gold and Silver. We've even helped our clients with valuable collectibles like art and cars. And, while we don't appraise such assets, there's much more to disposition of these assets than finding the top bidder.

Investment Advisory

Investment Advisory

Investment Advisory

We understand that managing your liquid investments is as much about managing your risk as it is about optimizing your return. We manage client investments such as stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, REITs, and other holdings solely in a fiduciary capacity.

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    • Business
    • Individual
    • Joint
    • Trust
    • UTMA
  • Tax Advantaged
    • 401k
    • 403b
    • 457
    • IRA
    • Roth
    • Self-directed IRA
    • SEP
    • SIMPLE
  • Educational
    • 529
    • Educational IRA
  • HSA
  • Annuities
  • Bonds
  • Commodities
  • ETFs
  • Hard Assets
  • Mutual Funds
  • Real Estate
  • Stocks
  • Venture Capital

You may have been told that you need a Medallion Signature Guarantee in order to transfer your investments, but you can't find anyone willing to provide the Guarantee because you are transferring the assets to them. If this is the case for you or your clients, we'd be glad to assist you! Learn more . . .

Sometimes you've maximized standard tax shelters or perhaps you're limited on these due to your income. If this is the case we can certainly help you with a taxable investment account, but before you give up hope, let us take a look at your situation. We've sometimes found tax-advantaged investing for clients that were overlooked by other advisors.

IRAs, ROTHs, 401ks, 403bs and even annuities are just a few of the many tax advantaged opportunities for long-term investing that we have rolled over and managed for clients. We have extensive experience in not only managing the underlying assets of these types of accounts, but also optimizing the tax benefits. With a CPA on staff, we can help you wade through the many options to better understand the advantages and disadvantages of these various strategies.

Tax

Tax

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Businesses pay an amazing number of and amount in tax and unfortunately, simply earning the money to pay all those taxes is not enough. Missing a tax deadline or just failing to realize that a certain tax exists gets many a business into financial trouble with penalties, interest, and just trying to catch up. Let us handle all the deadlines and calculations while you focus on the success of your business. And, who knows, we might even find a place or two to help reduce some of those taxes.

The estate tax is less of an issue than it once was with the new higher federal exemptions. However, that is little consolation to you if you are over the exemption limit. Furthermore, one must be aware and careful regarding each state's estate tax. Changing where you call home can certainly have an impact for beneficiaries of your estate. If you think estate taxes might be an issue, we'd be happy to help you evaluate considerations that may influence the impact of this tax.

Whether you want to make sure you are minimizing them or you just need help filling them as your Certified Public Accounting (CPA) firm, we'll do our best to make the process as painless as possible.

For some, tax planning merely consists of remembering the deadline, but you may have a more complex situation with multiple deadlines and considerations not only of taxes for this year, but of the years to come. We'd be happy to help!

Do you have multiple schedules, multiple states, multiple sources of earned income, multiple businesses, and dozens of various investment incomes? Not a problem. Or, maybe you just file a 1040EZ with income from one job. Either way, we're happy to prepare your return and even consider what might make it better for the next year.

Whether its personal taxes or small business taxes, federal taxes, state taxes, or local, income tax, sales and use tax, payroll tax, franchise and excise tax, property tax, liquor tax, or any other kind of tax, we're happy to assist you with your filings, calculations, and ensuring you only pay what is required.

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Accounting

CPA/Accounting

Our general ledger and bookkeeping services will get your recordkeeping in order. Generally, our clients see improvements in the bottom line with our accounting because we not only keep your books in order, but also have the expertise to help you analyze what they mean to improve your business. Learn more . . .

Whether it's a personal CFO for your complex, multigenerational family finances, or help for your small business that isn't quite big enough for a full-time Controller, we can help. Get the expertise of a full-time CFO/Controller without the cost. Learn more . . .

Your staff is the lifeblood of your organization, but making sure they get paid on time is only a small part of payroll implementation. Failure to timely and properly make payroll tax payments is one of the top reasons businesses become insolvent. And, we have the expertise to do more than just process your payroll and payroll tax; our comprehensive business background means we can help guide you on how to optimize your payroll expense to achieve more, answering questions such as: Is your payroll expense reasonable for your type of business? Should I give bonuses or raises? How can I implement retirement or insurance benefits with the biggest bang-for-the-buck? Learn more . . .

We are a QuickBooks Certified ProAdvisor. Whether it is Quickbooks consulting, QuickBooks training for your staff, or QuickBooks implementation by our staff, we are ready and able to assist you. Learn more . . .

Complimentary Consultation

Give us a call at 731-554-2408 or email us at info@eddleman.biz to find out more or to set up your complimentary consultation.