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Services

Brenda A. French, CPA, PC, provides a wide range of services to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries. At Brenda A. French, CPA, PC, I strive to meet each client's specific needs in planning for the future and achieving their goals in an ever-changing financial and regulatory environment. My professional services include:

Tax Management Services

At Brenda French CPA, PC, I guide my 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. My expertise, experience, analysis, and thorough research allow me to optimize financial opportunities to be found in existing as well as recently altered tax laws. I am knowledgeable and up to date on the tax laws and can make sense of your receipts, bills, and notices.

Accounting Services

From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Brenda French CPA, PC'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
  • Corporate tax planning and return preparation

Assurance and Advisory Services

At Brenda French CPA, PC, I 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 my clients face the myriad challenges of business planning and execution. My 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. My 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
  • Financial projections and forecasts
  • Debt and finance advising
  • Transaction structuring and negotiations
  • Business succession

Audits, Reviews, and Compilation

Brenda French CPA, PC's financial statement services comprise all three levels of assurance depending on your company's needs.

Audits

Audits offer the highest level of assurance to third parties and include in-depth examination and confirmation of account balances, inventories, and selected transactions. We perform audits for you to remove errors, ascertaining the validity and reliability of your information.

Reviews

Reviews provide limited assurance to outside interests and involve inquiries and analytical procedures that confirm financial statement matters and identify any items requiring further analysis. We perform reviews to ensure the integrity of your data.

Compilations

Compilations are usually requested for internal purposes and are based on information provided by a company's management. They do not offer assurance, but may involve some adjustment to accounting records.

Estate and Trust Planning and Tax Preparation

Effective estate and trust planning can ensure financial security for loved ones. For businesses, it can maintain a smooth succession of ownership. Brenda French CPA, PC'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 disburse one's estate so as to avoid complications and to be sure 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 Accounting Help and Assistance

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, set up, and use it properly. I don't just help you use the software; and I help you use it more efficiently and more effectively.

Brenda French, CPA, PC, offers the following solutions to help meet your QuickBooks needs:

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Personal Training

I train you personally! Either one-on-one or with several individuals within your organization at your company's location.

Installation

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

Setup

I assist new QuickBooks users with initial setup, including EasyStep Interview, Preferences, Lists, Customers, Vendors, Employees, Banking, and Reports. I 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.

Support

Our QuickBooks support service can assist you with any installation, setup, or operation assistance you might need. In addition, my support is not limited just to the software part of it; I can also provide accounting and payroll assistance.

Review

My QuickBooks HealthCheck review service helps companies that have the human resources to perform daily accounting and payroll tasks but need an accounting and payroll expert to review your transactions, accounts, and reports. This review ensures that you receive timely, relevant, and reliable financial information. We also inform you of any corrections, adjustments, or reclassifications necessary to ensure that the financial information you receive reflects the correct financial condition of your business. Reviews may be conducted at any time, but monthly reviews provide you with up-to-date information and feedback about your business.

Bookkeeping/Write-Up

Accurate record-keeping is essential to a successful business, yet it can also be complicated and time-consuming. Brenda French, CPA, PC, can help you with the organization and day-to-day tasks of bookkeeping so that you can focus on your core business.

Entity Selection and Restructuring

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

IRS Representation

Professional representation can be vital during an audit, and my experience with tax authorities enables me 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 my firm can put many of your worries at bay. I am ready and willing to answer any and all questions the IRS may be asking of you.

Payroll Services

Brenda French, CPA, PC's payroll services, can help you reduce the time spent on administration by developing and implementing a computerized payroll system that will facilitate processing, timely payment, and preparation of tax returns.

Cash Flow and Budgeting Analysis

Good cash management can improve a company's liquidity, reduce costs, and increase profitability. Brenda French, CPA, PC, 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's ability to survive. I can help you analyze your spending and 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 my help and guidance, you will always be on top of your finances and ready for the future.

Financial Projections and Forecasts

No one can predict the future perfectly, but we can all benefit from planning for it. Brenda French, CPA, PC, 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. I 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, my work can range from top-level reports to detailed financial models.

Debt and Finance Advising

Whether your needs are corporate or personal, Brenda French, CPA, PC, can assist you in sorting out the different options available for debt management and financing that will lower your payments and/or reduce the total amount of interest paid. Re-balancing your debts can also result in tax deduction savings. Even if you are able to handle the payments and the amounts of your current debts, my expertise may be able to save you money and/or lower your payments.

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