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Business Advisory
We work seamlessly with your team on all aspects of your business to ensure a sound financial basis for future growth.
Whether that’s full-service, outsourced Controller or CFO services, or working alongside your internal team, we’re here to lend a hand.
Services Include:
- Bookkeeping: Transaction management – AP & purchasing, AR & sales, DTC sales entries, payroll
- Accounting: Accounting reconciliations, fixed assets & depreciation, sale & excise tax, inventory cost accounting, adjusting journal entries, draft financial statements
- Finance: Budgeting & forecasting, strategy & planning, financial planning & analysis, policy & procedure, banking & treasury, cash flow planning, risk management & insurance, human resources, information technology, income tax
Full-Service Accounting
Take back your time and energy and
outsource all or a portion of your accounting and bookkeeping to the experts.
Let us provide the accurate, timely information you need while saving you the expense and inconvenience of hiring more staff
Services Include:
- CPA prepared financial statements
- Cash flow management
- Fixed asset management
- Accounting & bookkeeping
- Wine inventory and bulk wine cost accounting
- Statements qualified under AICPA code, a valuable service for business loan applications, bank loan covenant reporting, investor reporting and business acquisitions
Wine Compliance
Our years of hands-on compliance experience allows us to handle all aspects of your wine, beer and spirits compliance.
We provide compliance services to new and existing businesses with operations within California or out of state, wherever you are in the journey.
Federal & CA
- Fed 702 reporting (5120.17)
- Fed & CA excise tax return
- TTB permits and ABC licensing: 02, AP, wholesaler, and importer
- CA state sales tax
Use permits - TTB label approvals (COLAs)
Out of State
- All licensing, renewals and reporting: 3T and DTC
- Sales tax
- Brand registration
- Distributor appointments and changes
- Price postings
International
- Export Customs Docs (SECs, COO, CSF)
- SLI
Tax Service
We take a customized approach for each and every client, from high-net-worth individuals and families to groups, start-ups, and entrepreneurs, with a single unwavering goal: to prudently maximize our clients’ returns and minimize their tax burden.
Services Include:
- Preparation and filing of federal and multi-state income tax returns
- IRS and State tax examination assistance
- Consolidated return preparation and filing
- Multi-state tax planning, nexus determination and compliance management
- Consulting choice of entity selection
- Estimated, extended and minimum tax payment computation
- Sale of business tax minimization
- Succession planning
- Intercompany and related party activity and transaction analysis
Special Projects
Like most businesses, wineries experience complex financial decisions and situations that may require specialized expertise.
Our extensive and varied experience at the highest levels of the industry means we can offer the advice and assistance you need for any special project
Services Include:
- Navigate lawsuits
- Mergers, acquisitions, or corporate restructuring
- Emergency relief loan assistance
- Systems implementation
1099s, sales tax, and business property tax filings - IT consulting – Finance system/app selection and integration recommendations
- Valuation (light) services
- Sourcing financing and/or investors
- Consulting on best practices for chart of accounts, inventory cost accounting, financial reporting, etc.