Hunter & Renfro, LLP
Hunter & Renfro, LLP provides a wide range of services to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries. At Hunter & Renfro, LLP we strive to meet each client's specific needs in planning for the future and achieving their goals in an ever-changing financial and regulatory environment. Our professional services include:
At Hunter & Renfro, LLP, 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 meet your financial goals. Our expertise, experience, analysis and thorough research allow us to optimize financial opportunities found in the tax laws. We can assist with corporation, partnership, limited liability company, trust, fiduciary, estate & individual income, sales & use property taxes.
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Accounting/Bookkeeping Service
From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information and planning in order to maintain profitability. Hunter & Renfro, LLP'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, tax planning, investments, and employee benefit and
profit-sharing plans.
These services include but are not limited to:
- General ledger
and financial statement preparation
- Bookkeeping (Monthly, quarterly, or annual)
- Accounting
system setup and support
- Payroll assistance
- Cash flow budgeting and forecasting
- Personal
financial statements
- Employee benefit and profit-sharing plans
- Corporate tax planning and
return preparation
- Litigation support
We are able to assist you in setting up financial reports for your benefit in understanding results of operations which are important tools that can guide your business in making financial decisions, planning, and evaluating performance.
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Assurance and Advisory Services
At Hunter & Renfro, LLP we focus on building close client relationships
that add long-term value. This includes assuring the accuracy of financial records, evaluating financial procedures and working to produce strategies that help our clients face 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.
These services include but are
not limited to:
- Audits, reviews, and compilations
- Entity selection and restructuring
- Accounting software selection, implementation, and support
- Business valuations
- Financial projections and forecasts
- Debt and finances advising
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Transaction structuring and negotiations
- Business succession
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Audits, Reviews, and Compilations
Hunter & Renfro, LLP's financial statement services comprise all three levels of assurance depending on your company's needs.
- 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 ascertain the validity and reliability of your financial information and reporting. We are Public Company Accounting Oversite Board (PCAOB) registered and qualified to conduct audits of Public companies, Private companies and Government agencies.
- REVIEWS provide limited assurance to third parties and involve inquiries and analytical procedures that confirm financial statement matters that may identify items requiring further analysis. We perform reviews to ensure the integrity of your financial reporting & provide financial statements on your behalf.
- COMPILATIONS are based upon information provided by company management and placed in a financial statement format in accordance with regulated accounting principles. We can assist with compilations and providing financial statements on your behalf.
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Estate and Trust Planning and Tax Preparation
Effective estate and trust planning can ensure financial security for loved ones. For businesses, it can maintain a smooth succession of ownership. Hunter & Renfro, LLP’s role is to help you navigate the complex and shifting tax laws to facilitate the transfer of assets and minimize the tax liability to your beneficiaries. Everyone should have a well thought out plan as to how to disburse one’s estate so as to avoid complications and to be sure wishes are followed as intended. At Hunter & Renfro, LLP our goal is to assist you in having your taxes and estate thoroughly and carefully planned to ensure that your loved ones don’t have complications to deal with during a time of loss.
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Financial and Retirement Planning
Effective financial and retirement planning can help you reach your financial goals and maintain financial independence through a comfortable retirement. We can guide you through tough decision-making processes such as asset allocation, investment performance monitoring, college education funding, insurance funding and tax, estate, and business succession planning. Whether you are developing an investment strategy or evaluating current investments, Hunter & Renfro, LLP can ensure that your portfolio will take into account tax implications for an advantageous after-tax return. The road to retirement is often long and bumpy and we can help you make decisions to reach your goals.
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Litigation Support and Forensic Accounting
Hunter & Renfro LLP provides litigation support and forensic accounting services in a wide range of situations including business and commercial litigation, financial investigations, fraud investigations, hidden asset investigations, lapping schemes, business valuations, business and marital dissolutions, bankruptcies, personal injury, wrongful death, intellectual property, trust and fiduciary and economic damages. These services can involve quantification of economic loss or damages, analysis of financial records, fraud and theft investigation, the disappearance of assets and valuing a business or transaction. Financial and personal records are often vast and confusing to sort through. With our professional training in this matter and licenses as certified fraud examiners and certifications in financial forensics, we can make sense of these records and transactions and get to your bottom line.
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Professional representation can be vital during and audit or government inquiry. 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 or inquiry the professional representation you can find with our firm can ease many of your worries. We are able to act on your behalf and assist the agency in resolving their dispute with you.
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Family Law is often perceived as pertaining mainly to divorce and child custody matters. However, this is only part of the picture. In addition to working through the divorce process, we also offer expertise in areas such as forensic examinations, asset tracing, asset valuations, business valuations, buy-sell arrangements and the sale of the family business. Our team has experience and expertise to assist clients in working through the divorce process.
We are also a proponent of alternative dispute resolution proceedings, such as mediation and arbitration. These mechanisms enable parties to resolve their problems in a private setting, away from the emotional trauma and anxiety often present in a courtroom. This often results in significantly less costs to the parties in working through the process. At Hunter & Renfro, LLP, we provide family law litigation support services to attorneys and their clients. We understand that each client’s case is unique and important, and demands a complete review of all the issues involved. We do not believe in the ‘cookie cutter’ approach to divorce situations. Our clients deserve and receive the personal service and attention they need, at what might be the most difficult point in their life.
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Entity Selection and Restructuring
Your type of business entity has a large impact on your taxes and other liabilities. From your company’s inception through its growth and development, Hunter & Renfro, LLP can advise you on choosing and maintaining an entity type and restructuring. With our knowledge and expertise we can assist you with planning your business structure and analyzing the various tax advantages for each type.
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QuickBooks Accounting Help and Assistance
QuickBooks is a commonly used accounting software package. Use of QuickBooks often provides useful and timely information in the form of reports and graphs. However, the value of this information is only as good as the accuracy of the set up and use of the system. Not only can we help you use the software, we can set-up your system for you and show you how to use it more efficiently and effectively.
Hunter & Renfro, LLP offers the following solutions to help meet your QuickBooks needs:
Personal Training- We train you personally! Either one-on-one or several individuals within your organization at your company's location.
Installation- We install QuickBooks on your stand alone computer or in a network environment, in either single- or multi-user mode.
Setup- We assist new QuickBooks users with initial setup including: EasyStep Interview, Preferences, Lists, Customers, Vendors, Employees, Banking and Reports. We also help experienced users manage their businesses more effectively by improving their current setup. Many users experience problems and lack the ability to generate and track important information as a result of inadequate setup.
Support- Our QuickBooks support service can assist you with any installation, setup or operation assistance you might need. In addition, our support is not limited just to the software part of it, but we can also provide accounting and payroll assistance.
Review- Our QuickBooks review service helps companies that have the human resources to perform daily accounting and payroll tasks, but need an accounting and payroll expert to review transactions, accounts and reports. This review ensures you receive timely, relevant and reliable financial information. We also inform you of corrections, adjustments or reclassifications necessary to ensure the financial information you receive reflects the correct financial condition of your business. Reviews may be conducted at any time, but monthly reviews provide you with up-to-date information and feedback about your business.
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Cash Flow, Budgeting Analysis and Projections
Good cash management can improve a company's liquidity, reduce costs, and increase profitability. Hunter & Renfro, LLP can help you maintain optimal cash flow levels by tracking sources and uses, forecasting, and budgeting accordingly. To a business entity, cash flow is something that can make or break the business' ability to survive. We can help you analyze your spending, rebalance your budget and/or debts for an optimal cash flow to support your business' success. This balance plan would be revisited if and when there were any major changes in your business structure to ensure that you are operating at an optimal level. No one can accurately predict the future, but we all can benefit from planning for it. With our help and guidance, you can stay on top of your finances and maintain readiness for the future.
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Foreclosure/Short-sale Planning
Underwater homes have become more common in recent years. The question is how does a homeowner deal with debt balances larger than a homes value and what are the tax consequences of doing so? Is there a difference in treatment between a personal residence and a rental? Our professionals are trained and experienced in dealing with this issue and can provide you with options that fit your needs. We can evaluate the tax consequences of options and give you pin-point instruction on how to file your tax returns when working through a foreclosure, short-sale or loan modification.
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The range of needs for valuations continues to widen, and Hunter & Renfro, LLP can provide in-depth analysis to assist and prepare valuations. We can identify and analyze the factors that drive the value of your company or one in which you have an interest or assist in valuing an asset. Our firm has a dedicated team of professionals with extensive training and experience in the valuation process. Uses for this service included estate planning and compliance, gifting purposes, buying and selling businesses, mergers and acquisitions, divorce matters, family limited partnerships, shareholder/partner disputes, buy/sell agreements, economic damages, and ESOP’s. There are many factors that contribute to the perceived value of a business and our expert help can help you evaluate the complexities and reach a valuation conclusion.
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Mergers, Acquisitions, and Sales
Business transactions and transitions are complicated affairs, and whether you're buying, selling, or considering a potential merger, Hunter & Renfro, LLP can provide professional know-how to help you successfully structure and negotiate the deal. Hunter & Renfro, LLP employs careful analysis and due diligence to determine a fair asking price, pinpoint the most favorable tax structures, evaluate financial and cash flow impact, and assess compatible business functions and tactics. Expanding or contracting your business is a huge undertaking. With our expert advice, you can make the right business decisions for your business for optimum success.
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Whether your needs are corporate or personal, Hunter & Renfro, LLP 's professionals can assist you in sorting out the different options available for debt management and financing that will lower your payments and/or reduce the total amount of interest paid. Re-balancing your debts can also result in tax deduction savings. Even if you are able to handle the payments and the amounts of your current debts, our expertise may be able to save you money and/or lower your payments.
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Whether you're a corporation with overseas operations or a business or individual needing to work out taxation of U.S. residents working abroad or foreign citizens working in the U.S., Hunter & Renfro, LLP can help you plot a course through cross-border taxation issues. There are many special rules and policies for businesses with a foreign presence. We can help you make sense of how you are affected by them.
