Accuity

401K Employee Benefit Plan Audits

Conduct employee benefits plan audits, ensuring compliance, assessing cost-effectiveness, evaluating communication strategies, and aligning plan design with legal requirements to improve overall plan performance and employee satisfaction.

Accounting System Consulting, Design and Implementation

Consultants facilitate goal-setting sessions, conduct SWOT analyses, develop integration strategies, and review strategic plans to refine an organization’s direction for sustainable operations amid evolving market dynamics.

Agreed Upon Procedures

Agreed upon procedures involve performing specific financial checks or analyses requested by a client. Unlike an audit, these procedures focus only on the areas the client specifies. The results are reported objectively without providing an opinion. This helps clients gain targeted insights for decision-making or compliance purposes.

Assurance Services including Audits

Assurance services provide independent verification of financial information to enhance credibility and reliability. Audits examine financial statements to ensure accuracy and adherence to accounting standards. These services help stakeholders, such as investors or lenders, trust the financial reporting.

Audit & Assurance

Audit and assurance services enhance credibility, ensure compliance with regulations, and detect fraud, providing essential insights and recommendations for organizational improvement and risk mitigation.

Audit Defense & IRS Representation

Expert support during audits, including documentation, negotiations, and appeals.

Audit and Assurance

We perform audits, review and compilations as required by California Civil Code Section 5300 and/or an association's governing documents. Our extensive knowledge of HOA accounting can help management companies or boards with simple to complex questions on GAAP, internal controls, financial statement presentations and more.

Board Facilitation & Training

You likely have a group of extremely qualified and passionate individuals who have volunteered to serve on your board. But they may not know what it means to serve as a board member or how to facilitate collaborative conversations with each other around the organization’s mission and financial position. We understand that board members sometimes need facilitation and training on how to properly serve in this important role, so we offer board facilitation and training to help guide key discussions and provide education around role responsibilities.

Business Tax Planning

Business tax planning helps companies structure their operations to minimize tax liabilities and maximize savings. It involves analyzing transactions, timing income and expenses, and considering available deductions and credits. Effective planning can improve cash flow, reduce risks, and support long-term growth.

Cash Flow & Forecasting Analysis

Strategic planning tools to optimize liquidity, budgeting, and long-term growth decisions.

Client Accounting Services (Bookkeeping, Fractional CFO)

Our CAS services are designed to provide high-level financial leadership and expertise to businesses without the cost of a full-time executive. Whether you’re a growing company in need of strategic financial guidance or an established business looking to streamline your financial operations, our team offers customized solutions that align with your goals. We help businesses optimize cash flow, enhance financial reporting, and make data-driven decisions, empowering you to focus on growth while we handle the complexities of financial management.

Compilations & Reviews

Compilation and review services provide organized financial data for external users, aiding investment and credit decisions, and assist internal management in strategic planning and decision-making with clear, concise reports.

Creative Problem Solving

We apply innovative solutions to complex challenges, uncovering savings and opportunities others miss.

Deal Advisory

Deal advisory services guide businesses in strategic transactions, ensuring informed decisions, optimized risk management, and value creation in mergers, acquisitions, or divestitures, with expert analysis and execution support.

Dispute Advisory

Dispute advisory services expertly facilitate conflict resolution by providing objective analysis, efficient strategies, and maintaining confidentiality to preserve business relationships.

Employee Benefit Plans

Employee benefit plan services focus on the design, compliance, and reporting of retirement, health, and other benefits. Accountants ensure these plans meet regulatory requirements and operate efficiently. They also assist with audits, financial reporting, and plan administration.

Entity Structuring & Restructuring

Entity structuring and restructuring involves designing or reorganizing a business’s legal and operational framework to optimize tax efficiency, mitigate risk, and support strategic objectives. This process ensures the entity’s structure aligns with current and future business goals.

Estate Planning

Estate planning helps individuals structure the management and transfer of their assets during life and after death. Accountants work alongside attorneys and financial advisors to minimize estate and gift taxes, ensure liquidity for heirs, and align plans with overall financial goals. Proper estate planning provides peace of mind and preserves wealth across generations.

Family Wealth & Legacy Planning

Integrating tax strategy with estate planning, gifting, and generational wealth transfer.

Federal Tax

Navigate federal tax legislation and regulations, offering strategic guidance to maximize tax savings and minimize risks through insightful accounting method planning and compliance.

Financial Statements

We’ve got an experienced and qualified team to do your Audit (or Review, or Compilation) that loves detail and dreams about quality control. That same team, however, wants to proactively communicate with you, help you understand the value of a financial statement and fuel a discussion about what you want to accomplish.

Financial and Tax Reporting

Cabrillo provides a full suite of valuation services for public and private companies and Boards of Directors, all performed in accordance with AICPA, GAAP, IFRS, IRS, SEC, and USPAP Standards.

Fixed Asset Services

Fixed asset analysis identifies tax-saving opportunities through accelerated depreciation and compliance issue resolutions, applying changes to past assets without needing tax return amendments.

Forensic Accounting and Agreed-Upon-Procedures Engagements

We can assist an HOA in uncovering where questionable payments might have been made or if something does not look quite right with assessment revenue.

Forensic Audits

Forensic audits ensure transparency by detecting and analyzing financial frauds like embezzlement and money laundering, using precise auditing practices to identify and resolve disputes within organizational operations.

Holistic Financial Planning

We integrate tax, entity structure, investments, and long-term planning into a cohesive strategy.

Income Taxes

Ranging from compliance to advocacy, we are an HOA's partner in income tax reporting for federal (IRS) and California (FTB) income taxation. We also have extensive experience getting exemption from the FTB's minimum tax.

Individual Tax Planning

Individual tax planning helps clients manage their personal tax obligations strategically. It includes evaluating income, investments, and deductions to reduce tax liability. Planning ahead can prevent surprises at tax time and improve long-term financial health.

Information Technology Audit & Consulting

Provide expert IT audits and consulting to enhance system security, efficiency, and alignment with business objectives, helping organizations optimize performance, mitigate risks, and achieve strategic goals.

Internal Audit Services

Internal audit services enhance regulatory compliance, improve efficiency, identify risks, detect fraud, and ensure robust control systems, safeguarding a business’s integrity and performance.

International Tax

Expert international tax services aiding in cross-border challenges, optimizing tax rates, mitigating risks, and enhancing business value across multiple jurisdictions with experienced, industry-savvy professionals.

Lease Accounting Services

Provide expertise in managing new standards ASC 842 and IFRS 16, simplifying complex calculations and data management, and optimizing the financial reporting process for businesses.

Litigation Support and Expert Witness

We have and can assist an HOA and their legal counsel if they need help with an accounting or income tax matter resulting from a lawsuit filed by or against the HOA.

Mergers & Aquisitions

We work with clients on both buy-side and sell-side transactions, including making sure your business is well-positioned for a transaction to maximize integration value and effectiveness. It’s our pleasure to walk alongside our clients to look ahead, plan for the future, and be as ready as possible for these significant events. We have a team that can support through all phases, including entity pre- and post- transaction structuring, due diligence, financial and accounting preparedness, and tax efficiency planning.

Multi-State & International Tax Advisory

Analyzing and managing tax obligations across multiple jurisdictions to ensure compliance and efficiency. This service helps organizations navigate complex state, federal, and global tax laws while optimizing their overall tax position.

Outsourced Accounting

Outsourced accounting provides businesses with professional accounting support without maintaining a full in-house team. Services can include bookkeeping, payroll, financial reporting, and management accounting. This allows businesses to focus on growth while maintaining accurate, up-to-date financial records.

Outsourced CFO Services and Financial Services

Financial expertise to lead your finance function and perform the duties of a chief financial officer in a part-time, consulting or fractional capacity

Outsourced IT

Outsourced IT services provide scalable solutions that adapt to business growth, ensuring companies efficiently manage evolving technological demands with minimal disruption and resource investment.

Outsourcing Advisory & Solutions

The outsourcing advisory service expertly guides organizations in assessing, selecting, and managing partnerships with service providers, ensuring effective outsourcing solutions and strategic alignment.

Outsourcing for Financial Services

Outsourcing in financial services involves external parties handling processes such as customer service, data entry, and accounting, enabling companies to reduce costs and focus on core business activities.

Personal Financial Planning

Personal financial planning helps individuals set and achieve financial goals. It includes budgeting, investment planning, retirement strategies, and risk management. Accountants work with clients to develop a holistic plan that aligns with their lifestyle and long-term objectives.

Private Client Tax Services

Offer tailored tax solutions to advance wealth management goals, ensuring personalized strategies for high-net worth individuals, executives, and business owners to secure multigenerational prosperity and optimized tax outcomes.

Property Accounting

Evaluate property tax accounting practices to identify areas for opportunities and risk, assisting with any changes. Accurate property accounting involves managing, tracking, and reporting tangible assets like real estate and equipment, crucial for tax reporting, insurance, budgeting, and financial planning purposes.

Purchase Price Allocations

Support on mergers or acquisitions to allocate the total purchase price paid by the acquiring company to the assets and liabilities of the acquired company.

Real Estate Tax Strategy

Advising on 1031 exchanges, depreciation strategies, REITs, and real estate holding structures.

Relationship-Driven Service

As trusted advisors, we focus on understanding not just balance sheets but individual or familial goals.

Revenue Recognition

Ensure that income is reported accurately and in compliance with accounting standards, providing businesses with clarity on financial performance and aiding stakeholders with confidence in making informed decisions.

Reviews & Compilations

Reviews and compilations are financial statement services that provide varying levels of assurance. Reviews involve limited procedures to ensure statements are plausible, while compilations involve assembling financial data without expressing assurance. Both help clients present credible financial information to stakeholders.

SALT

Did you know that, in Kansas, riding a balloon that’s tethered to the ground is subject to the amusement tax? Of course not. And we don’t want you to know that or the hundreds of other State and Local tax nuances that exist. Multi-state operations require a deep understanding of the tax landscape in each location, including sales, use, income, franchise and gross receipts. That’s our job.

SEC Audit

SEC audit services ensure transparency and accuracy in financial reporting, which are essential for SEC compliance to identify any potential fraud or errors that may exist within a company's financial statements. Experienced, industry experts, and innovative technology are necessary for thorough and ethical audits.

SOC Reporting Services

SOC reporting provides assurance on system security, availability, processing integrity, confidentiality, and privacy, ensuring trust and transparency in organizational operations for diverse stakeholders and industries.

SOX 404 Internal Control Audits

Service guides companies through SOX 404 compliance by identifying, documenting, testing, and assessing key controls, ensuring effective internal control over financial reporting to meet regulatory standards.

Sales & Use Tax

Simplify sales and use tax compliance, optimizing resources, ensuring accurate tax collection through detailed transaction analysis, allowing clients to focus on strategic priorities.

Section 199A

Offer precise guidance for businesses qualifying for Section 199A, ensuring compliance with IRS regulations while optimizing deductions to maximize the benefits of Section 199A effectively.

State & Local Tax

Optimize state and local tax strategies, increase cash flow, and discover savings with expert advice, improving business competitiveness and effectively managing tax complexities.

State Credits & Incentives

Help businesses access State tax credits and incentives effectively, ensuring compliance with current regulations of state-specific programs and regulations, providing companies with the necessary information to take advantage of available benefits.

Strategic Business Planning

Strategic business planning helps organizations define goals and create actionable plans to achieve them. Accountants provide financial analysis, forecasting, and performance metrics to guide decisions. This ensures businesses can grow sustainably and respond effectively to market changes.

Strategic Consulting

Strategic advisors leverage valuations for a variety of reasons throughout their clients’ life cycles. Cabrillo's breadth of valuation expertise and depth of sector knowledge enable us to contribute to our clients’ strategy, not merely react to it.

Strategic Thinking

We offer proactive, forward-looking strategies that build wealth and minimize risk.

Succession Planning

Succession planning prepares a business for leadership or ownership transitions to ensure continuity and long-term success. Accountants assist by evaluating financial readiness, valuation, tax implications, and transition structures. A well-designed plan helps protect the company’s value and maintain stability through generational or management changes.

Tax Compliance and Preparation

Tax compliance and preparation involve preparing and filing accurate tax returns for individuals or businesses. Accountants ensure adherence to tax laws and deadlines, minimizing risk of penalties. This service also identifies potential credits, deductions, and strategies to reduce tax liability.

Tax Controversy & Dispute Resolution

Expert professionals resolve tax controversies by navigating complex systems, assessing issues, communicating with the IRS, and creating tailored strategies to achieve favorable resolutions with minimized financial impact.

Tax Function Outsourcing

Tax function outsourcing involves delegating tax activities to external experts, enhancing compliance, reporting, planning, and consulting efficiency while reducing company costs and improving overall tax management effectiveness.

Tax Planning

Tax returns can sometimes seem like only compliance requirements. However, we don’t simply run your numbers and check boxes. We use this as an opportunity to spearhead discussion of other key organization topics, facilitate conversations regarding financial issues that are important to you, and grow a relationship that allows us to help you achieve your goals.

Technical Accounting

Technical experts provide the specialized skills in financial reporting and risk management, that are essential for navigating complex business transactions and overcoming advanced accounting challenges.

Transaction Advisory Services

Suite of professional services designed to assist businesses in navigating the complexities of corporate transactions such as mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and other significant financial undertakings.

Transaction Support

We utilize our transaction and valuation expertise to provide advice and fairness opinions for critical business transactions.

Transaction Tax Services

Transaction tax services encompass specialized solutions that assist businesses in managing indirect taxes, ensuring compliance through technological automation, strategic planning, audit representation, and global trade management.