Reducing Costs

Stretching Resources

Managing Growth

Enhancing Security

Recordkeeping and Reports

Planning Succession

Tax Planning & Preparation

Reducing Costs

Identifying costs for any operation is never easy. Finding ways to control them is even tougher. Shari Taylor and Co., Chartered works with businesses to recognize all of their overhead components and factory costs, and account for them properly. What's more, we know how to compare your costs to others in the industry and determine which ones are in line with industry trends and which ones are not.

Careful review of your company's costs including depreciation and recovery schedules, helps you make important decisions for growth. That information is essential for judging capital purchases, lease vs. buy options, labor and staffing requirements as well as identifying the financial needs to support them.

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Stretching Resources

When times are tough, businesses can find it difficult to make a profit. When times are good, they may not have the cash available to support expansion requirements.

We understand the cyclical   nature of business. Our personal attention and in-depth knowledge of your business and others helps us evaluate your profit opportunities and cash flow needs objectively.

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Managing Growth

Everyone wants a business to grow. That's what makes it successful. But the costs of growth can put a business under before it has a chance to be successful.

Helping a business grow successfully requires having the right accounting systems in place. Our professionals work with clients to recommend the most practical accounting systems, including computer hardware, software, and operational procedures that will improve the nature of management information, while reducing the requirements for our services.

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Enhancing Security

Finding the right balance between employee benefits and owner finances is difficult. Businesses need to protect the equity of their owners. They also need to provide the kind of security for employees that assures the smooth operation of their enterprise.

Experienced professionals as Shari Taylor & Co., Chartered help business owners assess the tax implications, cash flow requirements and overall profit impact that can result from any combination of insurance arrangements, pension programs, bonuses and profit sharing and employee benefit plans.

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Recordkeeping and Reports

Our professionals will design recordkeeping and accounting systems to fit your personal and business financial affairs, along with financial records and reports, including reports to state and federal agencies.

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Planning Succession

Planning for retirement is important. So is planning for the continuation of a productive business.

Shari Taylor & Co., Chartered helps guide decisions for the benefit of both the business and the owner. We are acutely aware of Federal and State tax provisions, and provide excellent counsel on such things as asset ownership, gifting of ownership interest to heirs, the advantages of trusts, or business valuation before sale to employees or others.

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Tax Planning and Preparation

We prepare all required tax returns to assure that you are paying no more taxes than necessary. Our expertise in telecommunication taxes places us among the elite. Throughout the year, we monitor tax law changes that will affect you, recommend tax-saving strategies, and serve as your advocate in tax matters.

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