At Hutchings & Associates CPAs, we guide our clients through a full range of tax planning and preparation decisions with strategies that minimize your tax liabilities, maximize your cash flow and keep you on track to your financial goals. Our expertise, experience, analysis and thorough research allow us to optimize financial opportunities to be found in existing as well as recently altered tax laws. We are knowledgeable and up to date on the tax laws and can make sense of your receipts, bills and notices.

Hutchings & Associates CPAs's financial statement services comprise all three levels of assurance depending on your company's needs.

Audits

Audits offer the highest level of assurance to third parties, and include in-depth examination and confirmation of account balances, inventories, and selected transactions. We perform audits for you to remove errors, ascertaining the validity and reliability of your information.

Single Audits and Compliance

Single audits and HUD compliance audits performed in accordance with the most recent OMB regulation issued for this purpose, Title 2 U.S. Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 200, Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards (Uniform Guidance)

Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) cost certifications and compliance audits in accordance with Internal Revenue Code Section 42.

Reviews

Reviews provide limited assurance to outside interests and involve inquiries and analytical procedures that confirm financial statement matters and identify any items requiring further analysis. We perform reviews to ensure the integrity of your data.

Compilations

Compilations are usually requested for internal purposes and are based upon information provided by a company's management. They do not offer assurance but may involve some adjustment to accounting records.

As Inspector of Election and/or tabulator, Hutchings & Associates CPAs impartially performs election duties in good faith and as expeditiously as is practical.

These services include but are not limited to:

• Setting up election software and coordinate with the software vendor
• Receiving and maintaining custody of all proxies
• Retrieving and process proxies received online and by mail
• Tabulating proxies and responding to inquiries concerning such tabulations
• Determining challenges to proxies, ballots or the conduct of the election
• Communicating with shareholder relations and management personnel
• Traveling to the annual meeting
• Determining the number of shares represented and the presence of a quorum

At Hutchings & Associates CPAs, we focus on building close client relationships that add long-term value. This includes assuring the solidity of financial records, evaluating financial procedures and working to produce strategies that help our clients face the myriad challenges of business planning and execution. Our clients benefit from objective analysis to assist in controlling costs, increasing efficiency, and implementing new technologies and procedures that take advantage of changes in the marketplace, accounting standards, and tax law. Our assurance services will improve information quality or its context, meaning more success for your business.

These services include but are not limited to:

• Audits, reviews, and compilations
• Audit preparation services
• Federal and State Single Audits
• HUD compliance audits
• REAC submissions
• Entity selection and restructuring
• Accounting software selection, implementation, and support
• Financial projections and forecasts
• Business succession

From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Hutchings & Associates CPAs's accounting services steer you closer to these goals with accurate record-keeping and reporting as well as support on financial issues such as initial accounting system setup, cost-containment and tax planning.

These services include but are not limited to:

• General ledger and financial statement preparation
• QuickBooks set-up and ProAdvisor services
• Bookkeeping (Monthly, quarterly, or annual)
• Accounting system setup and support
• Payroll processing
• Cash flow budgeting and forecasting
• Personal financial statements
• Corporate tax planning and return preparation

Accurate record-keeping is essential to a successful business yet can also be complicated and time consuming. Hutchings & Associates CPAs can help you with the organization and day-to-day tasks of bookkeeping so that you can focus on your core business.

Hutchings & Associates CPAs's payroll services can help you reduce the time spent on administration through developing and implementing a computerized payroll system that will facilitate processing, timely payment and preparation of tax returns.

Your business entity has a large impact on your taxes and other liabilities. From your company's inception through its growth and development, Hutchings & Associates CPAs can advise you on choosing an entity type and later restructuring if advantageous. With our knowledge and expertise, you will always be receiving the most advantageous entity type for the functions your business performs.

Professional representation can be vital during an audit, and our experience with tax authorities enables us to guide clients in their dealings with federal and state agencies. If you have been chosen for an audit, the professional representation you can find with our firm can put many of your worries at bay. We are ready and willing to answer any and all questions the IRS may be asking of you.