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Tax preparation & planning

Business and personal returns, planned before year end.

Bookkeeping & monthly close

Reconciled books, closed by the 10th of every month.

Advisory

Cash-flow forecasts, entity choices and a monthly review.

Audit & assurance

Reviews, compilations and audits for lenders and boards.

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Industries

Dental & medical

Practice entities, owner pay, buy-ins.

Construction

Job costing and bonding statements.

Restaurants

Tips, payroll and food-cost reporting.

Nonprofits

Form 990, restricted funds, audits.

Retail & trades

Inventory, sales tax and seasonal cash.

Real estate

Rentals, 1031 exchanges, depreciation.

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Partners

Eleanor Ashcombe, managing partner, portrait

Eleanor Ashcombe

Managing partner · tax

Daniel Reed, tax partner, portrait

Daniel Reed

Tax partner · CPA, CFP

Denise Carter, audit partner, portrait

Denise Carter

Audit partner

Robert Hale, advisory partner, portrait

Robert Hale

Advisory partner

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Tax, bookkeeping and advisory

Notes from the partners

Plain-English guides to the deadlines and decisions our clients ask about most.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
Tax forms, a calculator and a pen on a desk

Tax

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4 min

What an extension changes about your filing date

An extension moves the date your return is due. The payment date, interest and your next estimated payment stay where they were.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
Tax forms, a calculator and a pen on a desk

Tax

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4 min

What an extension changes about your filing date

An extension moves the date your return is due. The payment date, interest and your next estimated payment stay where they were.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
An owner reading her numbers on a laptop

Tax

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4 min

Estimated tax for owners with uneven income

How estimated tax works when business income arrives unevenly: the 2026 due dates, the prior-year safe harbor and the annualized income method.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
An owner reading her numbers on a laptop

Tax

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4 min

Estimated tax for owners with uneven income

How estimated tax works when business income arrives unevenly: the 2026 due dates, the prior-year safe harbor and the annualized income method.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A client and his accountant going through his records

Bookkeeping

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4 min

The records a lender asks for

What a business lender usually asks to see, why each record matters, and how to have the file ready before you apply.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A client and his accountant going through his records

Bookkeeping

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4 min

The records a lender asks for

What a business lender usually asks to see, why each record matters, and how to have the file ready before you apply.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A couple reviewing their figures with their accountant

Bookkeeping

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4 min

Reading your own profit and loss

How an owner reads a profit and loss statement: gross margin, overhead, what the report leaves out, and the questions it answers each month.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A couple reviewing their figures with their accountant

Bookkeeping

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4 min

Reading your own profit and loss

How an owner reads a profit and loss statement: gross margin, overhead, what the report leaves out, and the questions it answers each month.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A board treasurer signing a return with her accountant

Nonprofits

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4 min

Form 990 for first-time board treasurers

A guide for new nonprofit treasurers: which Form 990 applies, when it is due, what the board sees before filing, and what becomes public.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A board treasurer signing a return with her accountant

Nonprofits

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4 min

Form 990 for first-time board treasurers

A guide for new nonprofit treasurers: which Form 990 applies, when it is due, what the board sees before filing, and what becomes public.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A team closing the month around a shared table

Bookkeeping

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4 min

Closing the month by the tenth

A ten-day month-end close for owner-run businesses: the order of the work, who does what, and the reports that come out of it.

Business owner reading a letter at his laptop
A team closing the month around a shared table

Bookkeeping

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4 min

Closing the month by the tenth

A ten-day month-end close for owner-run businesses: the order of the work, who does what, and the reports that come out of it.

Questions about your own numbers?

A free hour with a partner. You leave with a written scope and a fixed fee.

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21 Church Street, Montclair

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