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Accounting, Tax and Virtual CFO Services

Are you Navigating today's Business Interstate by looking through the windshield, or looking into the Rear View Mirror?

If you are using traditional bookkeeping tax and accounting services, that is exactly what you are doing.

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Let ARC Lead You to Higher Profits through our Total Back Office Support Servcies:

  • Far more than just bookkeeping
  • Beyond just finance and accounting
  • More support that a Vitrual CFO -

Our TOTAL BACK OFFICE SUPPORT eliminates the burden of running a business soo you can enjoy owning a business!

You concentrate on growing your business, let us worry about the paperwork!

Ask your self these Key Questions:

  • Is your accountant is giving you financial reports that you don't understand?
  • Does your Income Statement show a profit, but your bank account says otherwise?
  • Can your employees can go on vacation and you can’t?
  • Are you are working more hours than ever but you are still short of cash
  • Do you spend time away from your family trying to “Get the Books Caught Up”
  • Has it been more than a month since you visited your largets clients? .
  • Does your dog barks at you when you come home?

If you answered YES to two or more of these questions, you owe it to your self and your family to let ARC's Virtual Back Office servcies take on the burden of running a business so you can enjoy the benefits of OWNING a business.

We approach our Total Back Office Support Services using four distinct channels:

  1. The Virtual CFO
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  3. The Virtual H/R Professional - Click for H/R information
  4. The Virtual I/T Professional - Click for I/T information
  5. The Vitrual Administrative Office Manager - Click for Admin information

The Virtual CFO

What if you had assess to a highly-skilled financial specialist available when and only when you need one can help grow your business and increase profits without the additional overhead of a full-time employee?

 As your Virtual CFO, we can:

  • Provide you the right information to help you make the decisons that scare you today.
  • Help manage your cash flow to ensure your business has adequate working capital for growth.
  • Attend key meetings with bankers, insurance brokers, and others.
  • provide you wth budgets, analyses, and forecasts on demand.
  • Be your Financial Support to eliminate business challenges. .
  • Help you design, install and manage the policies,procedures, and job descriptions essential for the smooth operation of your Back Office.
  • Help develop your strategic growth plans.
  • Be your accounting function, or supervise your own bookkeepers
  • provide total IT and HR solutions without the overhead of these positions.
  • Attend Board meetings, meet with your outside investors while remaining objective and independent.

That’s what we do in the Accounting, Tax and Virtual CFO Services Practice of The ARC Consulting Group, Inc. We match your business needs with the right amount of financial expertise.  We can provide:

  • Total management of your entire accounting and financial reporting requirements
  • Cash Flow Analysis and Forecasting
  • Operational Budget Development
  • Capital Planning and Budgeting
  • Tax Planning and Tax Management
  • Financial Statement Preparation
  • Management of Payroll, A/R & A/P
  • Establishing or revamping your entire Accounting System.

We answer the Hard Questions like:

  • What is my projected profit for the year?
  • What does next year's budget look like?
  • Will I need Business Financing?
  • Is my business a victim of Fraud?
  • Should I Lease or Purchase that asset?
  • What is involved in a Sale - Leaseback of my building?
  • How can I improve my company's cash flow?
  • How do I know I am maximizing my profit potential?
  • How can I renegotiate the terms of my loan?

ARC Virtual CFO Servcies Practice is staffed by professional accountants and tax professionals with over 35 years of hands-on accounting and financial management experience. We don't hire clerical bookkeepers, nor de we employ "Tax Preparers," just professional accountants with at least 20 years of hard-nosed business ownership and accounting experience.

When you choose ARC’s Accounting, Tax and Virtual CFO Services Practice, a financial specialist will come to your business on an as needed basis, with the highest level of integrity, personal diligence and vast experience, providing the solutions you need to prosper.  When not on site, we’re just a phone call away!

We have "Walked the Walk" and can work with your bank, the IRS, your operations and plant managers, suppliers and customer base to build the financial reporting and management infrastructure you need.

Accounting, Tax and Virtual CFO Services Practice Leaders

Effective Financial Management and Reporting is the lifeblood of a company. Our knowledge base grew out of a commingling of several leading-edge audit and financial management professionals. Our mission was simple; provide small business with an affordable source on information that the large corporations use to grow their profits.

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Our President & CEO, Richard T. Balog, CPA\CFF, CIA, CGFM, DACFE has 30+ years experience as a CPA. He is licenced in both Florida and Maryland. He is a recognized leader in small business development and specializes in helping distressed businesses through the tough times. He has saved over 100 companies like yours from bankruptcy and turned them into thriving buisnesses.

innovationOur Vice-President of Financial Services Kate Robbins has over 25 years of experience as a Corporate Controller and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for medium to large manufacturing and service companies. She understands the needs of the entrepreneur. She can develop the financial reporting systems your organization needs to meet the challenges that lie ahead, and answer the tough questions that can help you move your organization to the next level.

In these challenging times, and the economy being as brittle as it is today, companies across the country are struggling to remain profitable—and trying to find ways to do more with less. Companies, perhaps, like yours.

What if you had assess to a highly-skilled financial specialist available when and only when you need one can help grow your business and increase profits without the additional overhead of a full-time employee?

Text Box: Free One Hour Consultation    Discuss your challenges with us at no obligation. We work with start-up’s, distressed businesses, and assist in exit strategies. Let us show you how we can help you make more money!    Call: Rick Balog at 904-945-1220

Tax and Tax Planning Services

Our President, Richard T. Balog, CPA has more than 35 years of audit and tax accounting experience. Our tax professionals’ broad range of education, expertise and talent, combined with their thorough knowledge of the latest regulations and legislation, means we can identify issues and develop the best strategies for you and your organization. Our knowledge and judgment can be a critical component of your success at public hearings, during mergers and acquisitions, in structuring exit strategies and buy/sell agreements, and dealing with multi-state taxation issues. With the bottom-line goal of reducing tax exposure, we successfully counsel clients with a businessperson’s perspective.

Our Vice-President of Accounting Services, Kate Robbins, has more than 30 years of CFO, SEC Audit, Internal Audit, Corporate Taxation, ERISA and Employee Benefit Accounting and Administration, and Cost Management Experience. Kate manages the Virtual CFO and Tax Management practice at ARC. Combined with our Financial Planning partners, Kate is an expert in structuring the most advantageous 401(k), IRA, and other types of deferred benefit plans for you, the business owner, and your key employees.

Administrative Support Services

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Growing businesses often outpace their support staff. This can result in chaos and IRS issues during tax time. That is why ARC provides a complete array of Administrative Support Services. Our Director of Administrative Services, Ms. Jen Errair leads our "Admin 911" consulting services.

Whether it is just catching up on filing or a total overhaul of the administrative aspects of your organization, ARC can provide a streamlined, cost-effective solution. Some of the services we provide include:

  • Filing and file organization
  • Sales administration and tracking
  • Expense report processing
  • Payroll processing
  • Payroll Tax Reporting
  • Sales and Use Tax Reporting
  • QuickBooks maintenance
  • Bookkeeping
  • File Maintenance
  • Business correspondence

 

ARC is a proud member of the Small Business Resource Network. Please click on the Logo below for additional information.

Member of the Small Business Resource Network - The SBRN helps businesses succeed by connecting them with interested, experienced service providers and government agencies.

For a free consultation with absolutely no obligation or cost to you call Kate Robbins, VP – Accounting Services today at 904-268-1148 or email Kate at Kate@ArcConsultingGroup.com 

We look forward to speaking with you, and to helping you increase your profits in this challenging economy.




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Alternative Fee Structure Arrangements
At ARC we ensure your success. We prefer performance-based and fixed-price arrangements. We are the experts, let us take the risk. The table below lists the typical types of forensic consulting arrangements ARC offers our clients. All of ARC's active clients receive free unlimited phone support.

ARC Consulting Alternative Fee Arrangements
Performance-Based

ARC will work with you to identify the specific objectives of the job. We'll develop a business case to determine the profit-enhancement benefit of our services. You pay us based on our performance toward the business case.

Fixed-Price ARC prefers a fixed-price arrangement. If you can clearly define the objectives of the job, we'll offer a fixed-price agreement. If you'd like help defining the products or services, we can fix-price that service also. You pay us only upon your acceptance of the products.
Time & Expense When you're not quite sure what you need, or you just need some additional expertise, ARC offers competitive hourly rates — and we don't gouge you by billing for travel time.

Our pledge is that your company's financial reporting needs will be completed on time, on budget, and provide the decision-support information you need when you need it. We let you concentrate on growing your business, let us worry about the paperwork!.

Our Staff

The professional staff of ARC brings more than 100 years of combined financial, forensic, legal, operations, technology, project management, and executive management "hands-on" experience. We have successfully investigated frauds and helped many organizations who have faced challenges similar to yours.

Every consultant assigned to your engagement will bring in excess of 10 years of hands-on experience in your industry dealing with your issues. Unlike other firms, you don't have to train our professionals. We are the experts. We train the professionals that other firms hire.

 

     
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