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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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Nonprofits

Reports your board can read.

Audits your grantors trust.

Form 990, restricted-fund accounting, Single Audits and monthly board reports for nonprofits across New York and New Jersey.

Dentist smiling in his practice
A nonprofit director, with her Form 990 filed early and three clean audits

The questions every treasurer asks.

Denise has signed more than three hundred audit reports, many of them for nonprofits.

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Form 990

Prepared, reviewed with the board and filed early.

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Restricted funds

Tracked by grant, so every dollar is accounted for.

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Single Audit

Planned around your first federal grant.

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Board reports

The same report every month, in plain English.

Dr. Megan Walsh, Walsh Family Dentistry
Laura Bennett, executive director of Riverside Pantry

★★★★★

Our first audit was calm. The board gets the same report every month.

Laura Bennett

Executive director, Riverside Pantry · client since 2020

What changes when your accountant knows nonprofits

A generalist

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Files the 990 at the extended deadline

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Mixes restricted and unrestricted funds

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Learns the Single Audit on your grant

A nonprofit specialist

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Files the 990 weeks early

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Tracks every grant on its own

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Plans the Single Audit before fieldwork

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

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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

Can you do our books and our audit?

No. Independence rules don't allow it. We do one, and refer you to a firm for the other.

Do you prepare Form 990-N and 990-EZ?

Yes, every version of the 990, and the state filings that go with it.

Can you present to our board?

Yes. Denise walks the board through the audit or review line by line.

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

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