Monthly accounting and bookkeeping
Michael's office can carry the whole cycle — entering activity, reconciling accounts, and producing statements you can use to make a decision rather than statements you file away.
Business Accounting
Good decisions start with books you trust.
A dependable set of books is the basis for pricing, hiring, borrowing, and every piece of tax planning that follows. If keeping up with them has become the thing you dread, that part can be handed off.
Payroll and sales tax
Payroll processing and the quarterly and annual filings that go with it, plus Arizona transaction privilege (sales) tax. These are the deadlines that create IRS problems when they slip, so they get treated seriously.
QuickBooks support
Setup, cleanup, and answers when something posts to the wrong place. If you would rather keep the books yourself, Michael will help you keep them correctly.
Start-ups and structure
Corporation, LLC, partnership, or sole proprietor — the right answer depends on your circumstances, not on a template. Michael will work through the choice, then set up the books and filings so you stay compliant from the beginning.
Transactions and decisions
Buying equipment, adding a partner, taking on debt, selling the business, hiring your first employee. These have tax consequences that are easier to shape before they happen than after.
An experienced CPA on call
You get the expertise of a CPA without the cost of a full-time accountant — and information through the year, not once at tax time.
Ongoing advice, not an annual appointment
Michael's practice delivers information through the year rather than once every spring. The point is not more meetings — it is that he stays aware of what is happening in your business, so a question in July gets an answer in July.
Small businesses of nearly every kind have come through this office: restaurants, trucking companies, law firms, medical and dental practices, chiropractors, dry cleaners, real estate developers and builders, taxi companies, produce distributors. Whatever yours does, the pattern of its numbers is probably familiar.
Tell Michael where the numbers stopped being clear.
Behind on the books, unsure about payroll, or thinking about structure — start there and he will tell you what the work involves.