At Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services, 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.

From start-ups to established enterprises, businesses rely on accurate and insightful financial information in order to maintain profitability and capitalize on new opportunities. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services'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
• Litigation support

Effective estate and trust planning can ensure financial security for loved ones. For businesses, it can maintain a smooth succession of ownership. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services'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.

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.

Choosing and implementing a new accounting software system can be a challenging undertaking. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services's experience with various packages currently on the market as well as awareness of new products allow us to aid you in choosing and implementing a system that will suit your company's needs. Training and support will ensure minimal disruption of your everyday business processes.

Accurate record-keeping is essential to a successful business yet can also be complicated and time consuming. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services can help you with the organization and day-to-day tasks of bookkeeping so that you can focus on your core business.

Your business entity has a large impact on your taxes and other liabilities. From your company's inception through its growth and development, Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services can advise you on choosing an entity type and later restructuring if advantageous.

As technologies rapidly advance, companies increasingly need to update their computer systems. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services can audit your system competencies and gauge upgrade needs as well as provide support in choosing and implementing new hardware or network systems.

Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services'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.

Good cash management can improve a company's liquidity, reduce costs, and increase profitability. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services can help you maintain optimal cash flow levels by tracking sources and uses, forecasting, and budgeting accordingly.

No one can predict the future perfectly, but we can all benefit from planning for it. Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services combines expertise and experience with a gained understanding of your business to produce financial projections that can help you manage your business plan and spending. Depending on your needs, our work can range from top-level reports to detailed financial models.

Whether your needs are corporate or personal, Chris Bernal Tax & Consulting Services's professionals can assist you in sorting out the different options available for debt management and financing that will result in optimal tax implications.