The entertainment industry represents a core focus of our firm. We provide tax consulting and compliance, business management, and audit services to the full spectrum of the entertainment industry.

Our integrated team of tax, business management, and audit professionals understand the key business issues that impact the top and bottom line. We understand the tax and accounting issues of the entire production cycle, from script development to pre-production, production, post-production, marketing, distribution, and release. Revenue and expense recognition, production capitalization, distribution accounting, waterfall payments to talent, studios, and producers, are just some of challenges facing the entertainment industry.

We assist our film, and television clients access film tax credit programs offered by many states across the U.S. We help our clients monetize these credits to improve production funding. Given the high costs and risks associated with the entertainment industry, it is critical that we bring you solutions to help optimize cash flow, provide tax savings, and manage risk.

Today’s domestic and international real estate landscape is a challenging business environment full of potential risks and pitfalls. Accounting for real estate requires specialized industry knowledge and rapid response to time-critical inquiries. To mitigate your risks and protect your interests, your accounting and business advisory partner must possess a deep understanding of market cycles, investment instruments and rapidly changing industry requirements. Our experienced teams understand the complexities involved in accounting for real estate and apply their industry-specific expertise to a wide range of real estate businesses including:

• Property development
• Property management
• Construction
• Investment and syndications
• Escrow and trust services
• Architecture
• Engineering
• Consulting

Our primary priority is to help you achieve your business goals. By relying on our deep industry knowledge, the current state of the local real estate market and strong tax capabilities, your business will benefit from a variety of our audit, review, compilation, attestation, tax and transaction structuring services.

Professional service firms, such as law firms, consulting firms, talent agencies, insurance brokers, engineering, and architectural firms, face an increasingly competitive and complex business environment.

Firms need to address significant issues, including compliance with professional standards and government regulations, risks associated with domestic and global expansion, talent acquisition and retention, succession planning, innovation, and the need to consider changes in the current business model to adapt to these challenges.

We understand these challenges. We work with you to help you stay informed and to navigate tax and accounting issues.

From new ventures just getting off the ground to mature operations, our clients include from family-owned restaurants, and investor-owned to multistate and multiunit concepts. We help new restaurants get started on the right track by setting up internal controls, designing back-office systems, selecting general ledger software and assisting in many other areas. With our integrated tax, consulting and accounting expertise, we help you establish and continue to serve up healthy results.

Consulting

• Entity structuring and investor analysis
• Developing informative periodic financial analysis templates
• Coordinating payroll and tip reporting practices
• Point-of-sale (POS) system selection
• Inventory management

Tax

• Tax planning and consulting
• State and local tax expertise
• Proactive tax saving strategies
• Restaurant tax credits
• Updates in tax laws and accounting rules that directly impact your business
• Cost segregation studies

Accounting

• Financial statement audits, reviews and compilations
• Agreed upon procedures engagements
• Internal control and fraud examinations
• Evaluate receivables and cash receipts
• Evaluate franchisee revenues
• Employee benefit plan audits

Nonprofit organizations face many challenges achieving its mission—obtaining funding, regulatory compliance, timely and accurate financial reporting, and a strong governance structure. With complex and ever-changing tax and audit compliance standards, nonprofit organizations need a team of professionals who can help navigate these challenges by providing specialized audit and tax services.

Our tax and audit professionals for nonprofit organizations have served nonprofit organizations since the inception of the firm. Our nonprofit clients range from large nonprofit organizations, including private non-operating and operating foundations, public charities, charitable remainder, and lead trusts, to and social nonprofit organizations.

In addition, our team supports many nonprofit organizations by providing time, talent, and treasure to organizations in their communities. Many of us serve as members of nonprofit boards. We share our skills and experience to help these organizations achieve their mission.