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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, 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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Advisory partner · CPA

Robert Hale

Robert leads the firm's advisory work: rolling forecasts, entity decisions and the packs a lender or board asks for.

18 years in advisory

Monthly reviews for 40+ owners

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Robert Hale, with his role and focus beside him

Advisory partner

Robert Hale

CPA

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Partner since 2020

Robert joined the firm as a partner in 2020 after fourteen years building forecasts and lender reporting for growing companies. He leads the advisory practice and runs the monthly forecast reviews.

He also works with property owners and investors on entities, 1031 exchanges and the estimated payments that come with them.

Licenses

  • CPA, New York

  • CPA, New Jersey

Education

  • MBA, Finance, New York University

  • BS Accounting, Rutgers University

Focus

  • Cash-flow forecasting

  • Lender and board packs

  • Real estate and 1031 exchanges

Memberships

  • AICPA

  • NYSSCPA

Dr. Megan Walsh, Walsh Family Dentistry
Michael Grant, real-estate investor

★★★★★

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, Brooklyn

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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