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"There are three people you need in life: an accountant, a fish monger and a bail bondsman."
Celebrity Chef Guy Fieri
Hello, and welcome to my website.
Call me Mike.
I'm a Certified Public Accountant with broad experience in business taxation, finance and management. I also serve many clients who need only individual tax return preparation, and I'm highly skilled regarding taxation strategies for same sex married couples and Registered Domestic Partners (RDPs).
My firm is the proud sponsor of the Bill Feingold Show on Palm Springs' KNEWS Radio 94.3 FM 6-9 PM weeknights. We join the McCallum Theatre and Sullivan's Steakhouse on El Paseo as primary sponsors of the Coachella Valley's premier contemporary events and live guest show. Most performers ready to appear at the McCallum Theatre make it a point to book an hour on the Bill Feingold Show with Kevin Holmes.
I intermittently appear on the show as tax and business advisor throughout the year. When there's a relevant, breaking news story, I go on the air with a news bulletin. U.S. District Judge Stephen Reinhardt's recent majority opinion in the Proposition 8 appeals case prompted an appearance.
But I'm hardly a celebrity. I'm just a smart accountant who knows business and taxes.
As for business, well, welcome to the new economy. Strategy is everything. If you're making it now, that's great news. If you're not making it now, it's time to start thinking about how to survive within the confines of the current economic reality. This fog will lift, just as we survived the stagnation of the seventies.
The malaise is hardly local. It spans from Japan to Greece. Yet, there are economies such as South Korea, Canada and Brazil who are doing well. Everything is a cycle and this very bad one will peter out.
And things are improving, at least regionally. This is partly due to the Canadian Snowbirds and partly due to an increase in regional vacationing from tourists who live within driving distance. Just about all of my clients whose businesses are tourism based reported the recent Season as having been the best since 2008. Some said it was better.
My CPA practice was built based on the belief that high quality accounting and tax service, using state-of-the-art software, doesn't have to cost a fortune. I use CCH ProSystem FX, the best in the industry, as my tax software. We have set up dozens of our business clients to use QuickBooks to accurately manage their own accounting, allowing them accurate and timely financial information about their businesses at minimum cost.
I care deeply about the tax strategy and profitability of my clients. My success is dependent upon your success. Pursuant to that goal, I prefer meeting face-to-face with clients for individual tax return preparation, and working on the tax return "live" during the interview, at least for the first few years. This allows the client to understand how certain transactions affect their taxes. It also makes the process more thorough, and more efficient, thus less expensive.
I offer a full range of tax services and bill my clients at a competitive hourly rate, not by schedules on the return or by using "value billing." Billing clients by the schedule or using "value billing," a practice employed by some of my competitors, results in padded invoices and can add hundreds of dollars to the cost of preparing your tax returns, and sometimes more.
Whether you're a corporation, partnership, LLC, LLP, or an individual with a complex return, I'd like to help minimize your taxes at a fair price.
And if you're a small business, perhaps you need a little help getting your finances on track. In my career I've helped build companies from scratch and helped steward many more through turnaround. While having a full-time finance professional on staff is a waste of money for most small businesses, well targeted consulting from an experienced financial manager who understands your business can be extremely beneficial. Many in my profession are talking about "part-time Chief Financial Officer services," especially in these days in tough economic times. The idea of putting your CPA on a monthly retainer as part-time CFO is a sly way for some CPA's to increase revenues. I offer part-time CFO services on an as-needed basis, which is consistently less expensive than bloated monthly retainers.
I invite you to take a look around my website and learn more about my practice. If you're looking for a smart CPA who bills their clients fairly, don't take my word for it, visit my client testimonials page. Then give me a call and let's talk.
Interested in learning more? Contact me.
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