Audit, Tax & Consulting for Green Tech, Clean Tech
Sustainability is now a key driver of innovation. The booming Green Tech and Clean Tech sectors are stimulated by growing concerns over climate change, stricter government regulations, pressures from environmentally-conscious investors and public interest groups, and shifting consumer expectations.
The ability to respond to market forces ahead of the competition requires a strong financial backbone. AAF provides the business and financial knowledge your business needs to respond to rapid innovation, and fast and agile competition.
AAF’s best-value tax, assurance and advisory solutions help Green Tech and Clean Tech clients increase their competitive advantage in the marketplace.
Tax Planning & Compliance
Here are a few areas we examine that optimize tax and financial results:
- Organization structure to maximize tax benefits for stakeholders
- State and Local Tax (SALT) exposure
- Cost capitalization issues
- Compensation Strategies: Wages, distributions, or a combination of the two
- Income leveling: Lower tax brackets through leveling
- Proposed and executed federal and state tax code changes, and strategies to take advantage of changes
- Federal and state renewable energy tax credits and accelerated depreciation schedules
- Integration with owners’ and/or executives’ personal tax situations
AAFCPAs’ tax department also includes trust & estate tax strategists, who solve complex owner-related legal issues impacting your business and its owners.
Audit/Assurance Solutions
AAF provides efficient and cost-effective audits, reviews, compilations and preparation of financial statements, and delivers valuable information about the financial position, performance and changes in financial position of an enterprise.
- Cost capitalization guidance
- Management assertion testing
- Internal audits
- Pension and employee benefit plan reviews and audits (ERISA)
- Internal controls review and design
- Due diligence on acquisitions and divestitures
- Customized assurances services
Outsourced, Cloud-based Accounting Solutions:
- Remote, cloud-based transactional accounting
- Finance function operations assessments
- Accounting infrastructure set-up
- Monthly accounting
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Cost accounting
- Inventory Accounting
- Guidance on right-sizing people, processes, and systems
- Monthly internal financial statements
- Implementation of new accounting standards
- Audit preparation
- CFO oversight & strategic planning, and controller services
- Assistance with investor presentations and complex equity agreements
Profit Enhancement Solutions
- Assistance with planning for new projects
- Business process improvements
- Financial forecasts and projections for existing and proposed projects
- Technology risk assessments
- Service Organization Control (SOC) Reports®
- SOX 404 preparation
- IT security and privacy assessments
- Governance, risk and compliance
- Data analytics and fraud detection
- ERP & financial package selection and implementation
- Protecting intellectual property
- Equity compensation
- VC funding and management
- Benchmarking analysis
- Managed Accounting Solutions: Right-size, outsourced accounting solutions, from cloud-based accounting to high level CFO oversight
- Business Performance, Internal Controls & IT Advisory
- Institutional investment advice, money management, financial planning & consulting, executive deferred compensation & retirement plan consulting, and succession planning solutions
- Fiduciary guidance and investment advisory solutions for employee benefit plan sponsors
- Technical Accounting Advisory: Implementation of new accounting standards, assistance with complex operational and financial transactions, audit preparation
Our industry specialists have demonstrated success in delivering business advisory, assurance and tax services to Green Tech and Clean Tech companies with revenues from $500K to over $200M. Our clients consider us a best-value CPA firm because we provide that ideal combination of expertise, service and price.