Services

Everything a traditional firm does — plus the work most of them send out.

Tax, assurance, and accounting handled by senior people, alongside transaction advisory and fractional finance you'd normally have to hire separately. One team, one relationship, nationwide.

Core services

What we do, in detail.

Tax preparation & planning

Year-round strategy for individuals, partnerships, S-corps, and C-corps — so the return is the record of a plan rather than a surprise.

  • Federal, state, and multi-state filings
  • Entity structure and compensation planning
  • Quarterly estimates and cash-flow timing
  • Transaction and exit tax planning

Audits & financial statement reviews

Independent assurance that holds up with investors, lenders, boards, and regulators — delivered on a schedule you can actually build around.

  • Financial statement audits
  • Reviews and compilations
  • Reg A and Reg CF offering support
  • Lender, investor, and board reporting packages

Accounting & bookkeeping

Clean books closed on a predictable cycle, with a reporting package that answers the questions you're actually going to ask.

  • Monthly close and reconciliations
  • Systems setup and cleanup
  • AP/AR and payroll coordination
  • Management reporting

IRS representation

Experienced advocacy through notices, examinations, and resolution — with someone who has done this before handling the correspondence.

  • Notice response and account resolution
  • Examination representation
  • Penalty abatement requests
  • Payment plans and collections matters

Forensic & litigation support

Forensic accounting and fraud examination for the situations where the numbers are the whole argument.

  • Fraud examination and investigation
  • Economic damages analysis
  • Dispute and litigation support
  • Expert reporting

Advisory & consulting

Quality of earnings and transaction support, fractional CFO and controller coverage, and fractional FP&A — detailed below.

  • Quality of earnings & transaction advisory
  • Fractional CFO & controller
  • Fractional FP&A
  • Valuation modeling and pricing strategy
Advisory & consulting

Deal-grade finance help, without a full-time hire.

This is the part most boutique CPA firms don't offer. Our partners have spent their careers on the corporate finance side — valuation modeling, FP&A, pricing, national account P&Ls at publicly traded and PE-backed companies — and that work sits alongside the compliance practice rather than being referred out.

Quality of earnings & transaction advisory

Support on both sides of a deal, built around the questions a buyer's diligence team will ask.

  • Normalized and adjusted earnings analysis
  • Revenue quality and customer concentration
  • Net working capital analysis and pegs
  • Sell-side readiness before you go to market
  • Buy-side diligence support

Fractional CFO & controller

Senior financial leadership sized to what you actually need — a few days a month, or through a specific stretch.

  • Close discipline and reporting cadence
  • Cash management and forecasting
  • Lender, board, and investor reporting
  • Finance team structure and hiring
  • Systems and process buildout

Fractional FP&A

Planning and analysis that survives contact with a board — and tells you which levers actually move the outcome.

  • Budgets, forecasts, and rolling plans
  • Operating and scenario models
  • Unit economics and pricing analysis
  • KPI reporting and variance analysis
Industries

We serve clients in every industry.

Good accounting travels; the fundamentals don't change from one sector to the next. That said, some industries carry their own revenue recognition questions, regulatory pressure, and investor expectations — and these are the ones where we've worked deeply and repeatedly:

Software & SaaS Computer hardware Real estate Biotech Pharmaceuticals Health care Consumer packaged goods Food & beverage Retail

If your industry isn't on that list, it isn't a barrier — tell us what you do and we'll be straight with you about whether we're the right firm for the work.

Built for capital-raising companies

The audits and reviews your offering requires.

Regulation A and Regulation CF offerings carry financial statement requirements that catch a lot of emerging companies late. We provide the audits and reviews those filings require, on the timeline the raise actually runs on.

Independence rules keep attest work separate from accounting work, so we serve as either your independent auditor and reviewer or your outsourced tax and accounting partner — whichever role fits your situation better. We'll tell you at the outset which one we can take, rather than discovering it halfway through.

How engagements start

Four steps, and you'll know where you stand at each one.

1

A conversation

Twenty to thirty minutes. What you need, what's driving the timing, and whether we're the right firm for it.

2

Scope and fee

A written scope with a fixed fee or a clear range. No hourly surprises after the fact.

3

Onboarding

Engagement letter, secure document exchange, and a short list of what we need to start. We work from your systems where we can.

4

Ongoing work

A set cadence, a named point of contact, and answers in hours rather than days.

Talk to us

Tell us what you need. We'll tell you if we're the right fit.

A short conversation, no charge and no pitch. If the work isn't ours, we'll say so and point you somewhere useful.

Goes straight to the partners · Reply within one business day

Thank you — we've got it.

One of the partners will reply personally within one business day, usually sooner.

S. A. Bennett, CPA, MBA
Managing Partner
sab@bennettwilliams.cpa
586.840.6494 ext. 101
Adrian Williams
Partner, Operations & Finance
aw@bennettwilliams.cpa
919.491.5054