| 1 |
Telephone
or e-mail assistance to your current bookkeeper or financial officer
maintaining your accounting system.
Provide telephone or e-mail support on recording of unusual
accounting transactions to help reduce year-end reconciliation of
accounts. We may record or accumulate phone conference assistance. |
| 2 |
Prepare
compiled (unaudited) financial statements.
Notes to the financial statements will be (circle one)
omitted / limited / full. Provide
adjusted journal entries (AJEs) as may be required and/or instruct
personnel on AJEs. List separately any specifics. |
| 3 |
Prepare
reviewed (unaudited) financial statements with full notes to the
financial statements, as may be required for bank loan covenants.
A separate review agreement letter is required, as is a
management representation letter. |
| 4 |
Prepare
annual income or corporation tax returns for a sole trader,
partnership, or limited company. Prepare reconciliation of accounts
profit to taxable income. Please list entity names if there is more
than one company: |
| 5 |
Maintain
fixed asset depreciation schedule, updating of client-provided
additions and deletions. |
| 6 |
Prepare
monthly / quarterly / annual sales tax reports. |
| 7 |
Limited
annual pension plan assistance in calculating contributions or
coordinating information to third party administrator.
This excludes annual tax returns and participant statements,
or accounting that should be prepared by a third party
administration. |
| 8 |
Preparation
of payroll checks on a weekly / bi-weekly / semimonthly / monthly
basis. |
| 9 |
Prepare
payroll tax deposits on weekly / bi-weekly / monthly basis. |
| 10 |
Prepare
payroll tax reports quarterly and year end reports such as W-2's and
W-3. |
| 11 |
Preparation
of 1099's and 1096 at year end. |
| 12 |
Maintaining
accounts receivable for your business including preparing and
sending invoices and making deposits. |
| 13 |
Maintaining
accounts payable for your business including check preparation. |
| 14 |
Prepare
annual company budgets with breakeven levels and profit goals for
desired owner salaries and return on investment.
Compute periodic sales targets to achieve budgets. |
| 15 |
Set
up executive trends report and instruct company personnel on monthly
updating. Identify and
begin to track initial key performance indicators. |
| 16 |
Perform
activity-based costing and/or management assessment of customer base
and routines. Set up
detailed key performance indicators and financial/operational
reporting routines for team members to prepare.
Such items will be designed to monitor the key activities
that lead to profitability and less reliance on owner daily input.
Client to fax or e-mail to us for review and commentary. |
| 17 |
Prepare
a limited calculation of estimated business value, using comparable
company sales and giving a general guideline of valuation. |
| 18 |
Assist
in obtaining an independent, third-party valuation report to
document actual company value. |
| 19 |
Transaction
planning to prepare for major business transactions or business
strategy changes such as mergers and acquisitions.
Study from a strategic and/or tax minimization perspective. |
| 20 |
Assistance
with obtaining bank or other financing, including preparation of
projected financial statements. |
| 21 |
Assistance
with other business startup services.
Unless otherwise specified, this is limited to using a
business start-up engagement checklist as a tool to help guide on
the matters to be considered when starting a business.
It is up to the client to ensure that all appropriate actions
are taken. |
| 22 |
Other
business startup phase work, including advice on an ad hoc basis, as
a general business or financial advisor during the startup phase. |
| 23 |
Setup
or conversion to new accounting system. Assistance with the setup
software and subsequent upgrades, 3-15 weeks of on-site training and
training for new team members. |
| 24 |
Assistance
with legal or entity matters, including coordinating choice of
business entity with attorney, obtaining startup registrations
related to tax requirements. |
| 25 |
Review
of the owner compensation system, including partner and incentive
compensation packages, to align company and individual manager
goals. |
| 26 |
Projected
financial statements/forecasts/cash flow planning, including the
development of projections and forecasts for various projects such
as: acquisitions and
development of real estate projects, new business ventures, business
expansions and similar activities. |