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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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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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Eleanor Ashcombe

Managing partner · tax

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Daniel Reed

Tax partner · CPA, CFP

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Denise Carter

Audit partner

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Robert Hale

Advisory partner

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Audit partner · CPA

Denise Carter

Denise leads the firm's audit and assurance work for nonprofits, lenders and boards. She has signed more than three hundred audit reports.

19 years in assurance

300+ reports signed

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Audit partner

Denise Carter

CPA

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Partner since 2016

Denise leads the firm's audit and assurance work for nonprofits, lenders and boards, and has signed more than three hundred audit reports.

She joined in 2012 from a regional audit practice, chairs the firm's quality reviews and teaches nonprofit accounting for the NYSSCPA.

Licenses

  • CPA, New York

  • Certified in Single Audit

Education

  • MAcc, Rutgers University

  • BS Accounting, Rutgers University

Focus

  • Nonprofit audits, including Single Audit

  • Reviews and audits for lenders

  • Board and grantor reporting

Memberships

  • AICPA

  • NYSSCPA

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Laura Bennett, executive director of Riverside Pantry

★★★★★

Denise walked our board through the audit line by line. Nobody left confused.

Laura Bennett

Executive director, Riverside Pantry · client since 2020

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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