At Kay Perrone & Associates, we guide our clients through a full range of tax planning and preparation decisions with strategies that minimize your tax liabilities, maximize your cash flow and keep you on track to your financial goals. Our expertise, experience, analysis and thorough research allow us to optimize financial opportunities to be found in existing as well as recently altered tax laws. We are knowledgeable and up to date on the tax laws and can make sense of your receipts, bills and notices.

From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Kay Perrone & Associates's accounting services steer you closer to these goals with accurate record-keeping and reporting as well as support on financial issues such as initial accounting system setup, cost-containment, tax planning, investments, and employee benefit and profit-sharing plans.

These services include but are not limited to:

• General ledger and financial statement preparation
• Bookkeeping (Monthly, quarterly, or annual)
• Accounting system setup and support
• Payroll processing
• Cash flow budgeting and forecasting
• Personal financial statements
• Employee benefit and profit-sharing plans
• Corporate tax planning and return preparation
• Litigation support

At Kay Perrone & Associates, we focus on building close client relationships that add long-term value. This includes assuring the solidity of financial records, evaluating financial procedures and working to produce strategies that help our clients face the myriad challenges of business planning and execution. Our clients benefit from objective analysis to assist in controlling costs, increasing efficiency, and implementing new technologies and procedures that take advantage of changes in the marketplace, accounting standards, and tax law. Our assurance services will improve information quality or its context, meaning more success for your business.

These services include but are not limited to:

• Audits, reviews, and compilations
• Entity selection and restructuring
• Accounting software selection, implementation, and support
• Business valuations
• Financial projections and forecasts
• Debt and finances advising
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Transaction structuring and negotiations
• Business succession

Effective estate and trust planning can ensure financial security for loved ones. For businesses, it can maintain a smooth succession of ownership. Kay Perrone & Associates's role is to help you navigate the complex and shifting tax laws to facilitate the transfer of assets and minimize the tax liability of your beneficiaries. Everyone should have a well-thought-out plan as to how to distribute the assets left in one's estate so as to avoid complications and to be sure that the individual’s wishes are followed. Having your taxes and estate thoroughly and carefully planned will ensure that your loved ones don't have any complications to deal with during a time of loss.

QuickBooks can provide useful and timely information in the form of financial statements, reports, and graphs. However, it can only provide this information if you purchase the right product and then install, setup, and use it properly. We don't just help you use the software, we help you use it more efficiently and more effectively.

Kay Perrone & Associates are QuickBooks Pro Advisors and offer the following solutions to help meet your QuickBooks needs:

Installation- We install QuickBooks on your stand-alone computer or in a network environment, in either single- or multi-user mode.

Setup- We assist new QuickBooks users with initial setup including: EasyStep Interview, Preferences, Lists, Customers, Vendors, Employees, Banking, and Reports. We also help experienced users manage their businesses more effectively by improving their current setup. Many users experience problems and lack the ability to generate and track important information as a result of inadequate setup.

Controller Service for QuickBooks users: Our Controller Services give you a higher level of service and can be performed at your site using your QuickBooks. See the Controller Service description above for more information.

Accurate record-keeping is essential to a successful business yet can also be complicated and time consuming. Kay Perrone & Associates can help you with the organization and day-to-day tasks of bookkeeping so that you can focus on your core business.

Your business entity has a large impact on your taxes and other liabilities. From your company's inception through its growth and development, Kay Perrone & Associates can advise you on choosing an entity type and later restructuring if advantageous. With our knowledge and expertise, you will always be receiving the most advantageous entity type for the functions your business performs.

Professional representation can be vital during an audit, and our experience with tax authorities enables us to guide clients in their dealings with federal and state agencies. If you have been chosen for an audit, the professional representation you can find with our firm can put many of your worries at bay. We are ready and willing to answer any and all questions the IRS may be asking of you.

Kay Perrone & Associates's payroll services can help you reduce the time spent on administration through developing and implementing a computerized payroll system that will facilitate processing, timely payment and preparation of tax returns.

Choosing and administering benefit plans for your employees is often a complex process. Kay Perrone & Associates can help you develop, implement, and administer your benefit, retirement, and profit-sharing plans with an eye toward rewarding your employees and reaching your company's financial and business goals. We can also help maximize tax advantages in implementing these plans. As your business grows, your business and your employees will be rewarded for the hard work that contributed to the success of your business.

Good cash management can improve a company's liquidity, reduce costs, and increase profitability. Kay Perrone & Associates can help you maintain optimal cash flow levels by tracking sources and uses, forecasting, and budgeting accordingly. To a business entity, cash flow is something that can make or break the business' ability to survive. We can help you analyze your spending, re-balance your budget and/or debts for an optimal cash flow to support your business' success. This balance plan would be revisited if and when there were any major changes in your business structure to ensure that you are operating at an optimal level. With our help and guidance, you will always be on top of your finances and ready for the future.

No one can predict the future perfectly, but we can all benefit from planning for it. Kay Perrone & Associates combines expertise and experience with a gained understanding of your business to produce financial projections that can help you manage your business plan and spending. Forecasting for the future is imperative to your company's success. We make it a point to keep current with market trends and updates so that your business can be prepared for what is to come. Depending on your needs, our work can range from top-level reports to detailed financial models.

The range of needs for valuing businesses continues to widen, and Kay Perrone & Associates can provide in-depth analysis to help you identify and analyze the factors that drive the value of your company or one in which you have an interest. Uses for this service include estate planning and compliance, buying and selling businesses, divorce matters, family limited partnerships and ESOPs. There are so many factors that contribute to the perceived value of a business. Our expert help can help you evaluate entities that you have an interest in and guide you towards making business decisions that you feel confident with.

Our Controller Service helps companies that have the human resources to perform basic daily accounting tasks but need an accounting and payroll expert to act as their Accounting Manager/Controller/CFO. This service is for small businesses that cannot or choose not to employ a full-time accountant to fill this role. The service is customized to your needs. We can write your checks for you, review your transactions, make adjusting journal entries, prepare payroll tax and sales tax returns, and produce monthly financial reports, to name a few available services. We also meet regularly to discuss what the numbers are actually telling you about your business. This service ensures that you receive timely, relevant, and reliable financial information. The Controller Services may be conducted on a weekly, quarterly, or monthly schedule, but weekly and monthly schedules provide you with up-to-date information and feedback about your business that you can act on immediately.