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Services

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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Dental & medical practices

Run the practice.

We'll run the numbers.

Buy-ins, owner compensation, equipment and payroll for 60+ dental and medical practices across New York and New Jersey.

Dentist smiling in his practice
A dental practice owner with a modeled buy-in and reviewed owner pay

Practices we work with

logoWalsh
logoMontclairPediatrics
logoChelseaSmiles
logoGardenState

The questions every practice owner asks.

Eleanor has worked with practices for twenty years.

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Purchases and buy-ins

Valuation, financing and the new entity.

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Owner pay

Salary, distributions and retirement plans.

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Equipment

Financing and Section 179, timed to your tax year.

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Payroll

Clinical and front-desk staff, bonuses included.

Dr. Megan Walsh, Walsh Family Dentistry
Dr. Megan Walsh in her practice

★★★★★

We used to find out what we owed in April. Now we see it every month.

Dr. Megan Walsh

Walsh Family Dentistry · client since 2019

What changes when your accountant knows dentistry

A generalist

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Learns the buy-in on your dime

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Sees equipment as one line

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Owner pay set once and forgotten

A practice specialist

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Has priced forty buy-ins

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Plans equipment around your tax year

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Reviews owner pay every November

What our clients say

Owner-run businesses from Manhattan to Montclair, in their own words.

4.9

★★★★★

212 reviews on Google

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We used to find out what we owed in April. Now Daniel walks us through it every quarter and the number never surprises us.

Dr. Paul Kessler, Kessler Family Dental

Dr. Paul Kessler

Kessler Family Dental, Montclair

★★★★★

Job costing finally matches what happens on site. Our bonding company asked who does our books, which has never happened before.

Marcus Hayes, Hayes Building Co., on a job site

Marcus Hayes

Hayes Building Co., Queens

★★★★★

Tips, payroll and sales tax used to eat my Sundays. Now the books close by the tenth and I spend Sundays in the kitchen.

Tony Russo, Russo's Trattoria

Tony Russo

Russo's Trattoria, Hoboken

★★★★★

Denise's team made our first audit calm. Our board got a clean opinion and our grantors got their reports early.

Laura Bennett, executive director, Riverside Pantry

Laura Bennett

Executive director, Riverside Pantry

★★★★★

They set up our inventory accounting before the holidays and caught a sales tax problem that would have cost us thousands.

Jessica Hollis, Hollis Street Boutique

Jessica Hollis

Owner, Hollis Street Boutique

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Six rentals, two LLCs and a 1031 exchange. Robert keeps it all straight and I know my estimated payments before I ask.

Michael Grant, real-estate investor

Michael Grant

Real-estate investor, Brooklyn

Questions clients ask

Do you work with medical practices too?

Yes: dental, medical, physical therapy and veterinary practices.

Can you help with a practice purchase?

Yes. We review the books, model the deal and set up the new entity.

Do you handle payroll?

Yes, for clinical and front-desk staff, including bonuses and retirement contributions.

Free consultation

Bring last year’s return. We’ll take it from there.

An hour with a partner, at our office in New York or Montclair or by video. You leave with a written scope and a fixed fee.

What to bring

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Last year’s federal and state returns

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Recent bank and card statements

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Any IRS or state notices you have received

Eleanor Ashcombe, CPA, managing partner

Eleanor Ashcombe

Managing partner · takes most first consultations

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