Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC provides a wide range of services to individuals and businesses in a variety of industries.

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:

Tax Management Services

At Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC, 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.


Accounting Services

From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’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 processing
  • Cash flow budgeting and forecasting
  • Personal financial statements
  • Employee benefit and profit-sharing plans
  • Corporate tax planning and return preparation

Assurance and Advisory Services

At Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC, 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:

  • 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

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.


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. Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’s role is to help you navigate the complex and shifting tax laws to facilitate the transfer of assets and minimize the tax liability of 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. Having your taxes and estate thoroughly and carefully planned will ensure that your loved ones don’t have any complications to deal with during a time of loss.


Financial and Retirement Planning

Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’s goal is to 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, retirement plans, insurance, and tax, estate, and business succession planning. Whether you are developing an investment strategy or evaluating current investments, Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC can ensure that your portfolio will take into account tax implications for an advantageous after-tax return. The road to retirement is a long one and we can help you to take the proper steps to reach your goals.


IRS Representation

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.


Bookkeeping/Write-up

Accurate record-keeping is essential to a successful business yet can also be complicated and time consuming. Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC can help you with the organization and day-to-day tasks of bookkeeping so that you can focus on your core business.


Entity Selection and Restructuring

Your business entity has a large impact on your taxes and other liabilities. From your company’s inception through its growth and development, Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC 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.


QuickBooks Accounting Help and Assistance

QuickBooks can provide useful and timely information in the form of financial statements, reports and graphs. However, it can only provide this information if you purchase the right product and then install, setup and use it properly. We don’t just help you use the software, we help you use it more efficiently and more effectively.

As a certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor, Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC 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 your transactions, accounts and reports. This review ensures that you receive timely, relevant and reliable financial information. We also inform you of any corrections, adjustments or reclassifications necessary to ensure that 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.


Payroll Services

Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’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.


Employee Benefits, Pension, and Profit-Sharing Plans

Choosing and administering benefit plans for your employees is often a complex process. Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC can help you develop, implement, and administer your benefit, retirement, and profit-sharing plans with an eye toward rewarding your employees and reaching your company’s financial and business goals. We can also help maximize tax advantages in implementing these plans. As your business grows, your business and your employees will be rewarded for the hard work that contributed to the success of your business.


Mergers, Acquisitions, and Sales

Business transactions and transitions are complicated affairs, and whether you’re buying, selling, or considering a potential merger, Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC can provide professional know-how to help you successfully structure and negotiate the deal. Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC 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.


Debt and Finance Advising

Whether your needs are corporate or personal, Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’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.


Bill Pay/Family Office

Our clients constantly seek to maximize value, and so do we. Our bill pay and family office services allow personal and business bookkeeping to flow seamlessly into our clients’ tax planning and preparation work. Not only does it guarantee clean and organized books for our clients, but it also affords us a more comprehensive understanding of our clients’ financial and tax situations for consulting and planning purposes. These services are flexible and customized to fit each of our client’s unique situations and specific needs.

These services include:

  • Bill management with a system of strict internal controls
  • Deposits and bill-paying
  • Monthly accounting, payment activity summary, and bank account reconciliation
  • Preparation of personal financial statements
  • Household employee payroll management
  • Organization of financial data to assist and integrate with tax minimization planning and compliance

Qualified Settlement Claims Administration

Edward D Gompers & Company, AC directs and manages the complex demands of mass tort and class action settlements. With years of experience, we are well positioned to handle the complex steps and processes involved in settlement administration efficiently and cost-effectively. As an objective independent third party, we ensure class members always get their concerns addressed while providing the courts with all the information they need. The settlement administration process can be highly complex and costly if not well managed. When you turn to us, you are assured of receiving unparalleled service and a thorough understanding of the process obtained from our hands-on experience.


CFO/Controller Services for Small Business

As a small business owner, you wear a lot of hats. On any given day, you may function as a manager, salesman, HR rep, maintenance person, and even as your company’s CFO/Controller and accountant. If you’re like many of our clients, you feel that as much as you need to hire a CFO/Controller or possibly an accountant, you just can’t justify paying one to work full-time. This is where Edward D. Gompers & Company, AC’s CFO/Controller and financial advisor services come in. We become your outsourced financial advisor, always here to assist you with the issues that are most important to you and your business. As your business grows and your finances become more complicated, we grow with you, providing the answers you need with every new problem.

We help our clients with questions like these:

Cashflow
How do I manage my day-to-day cash flow without taking away from the time I need to focus on sales and marketing?
Employees
How do I know when I can afford to bring on a new employee? When is it time to let someone go? How do I deal with workers’ comp, medical insurance, and benefits?
Financials
How do I know if my business is really making money? My profit and loss statements show that I’m making a profit; why don’t I see it in my bank account?
Business Planning
How do I draft an effective business plan that will help me run a better business without getting caught up in a bunch of what ifs or pie-in-the-sky forecasts? How do I develop a plan that is realistic, actionable, and measurable?
Profitability
How do I structure my business to be profitable and still allow me enough free time to enjoy quality of life?
Succession Planning
When is the right time to sell my business? How much is it worth? Should I leave it to my children, sell it to my employees, or find an outside buyer?