Industries

Automotive & Dealer Services

Rackers & Fernandez, LLC recognizes the unique challenges facing today’s automotive companies. Our seasoned industry team of automotive specialists can help you navigate the dynamic obstacles dealers face. Within the automotive and dealer services team, Rackers & Fernandez, LLC currently serves a broad array of companies:

WHO RACKERS & FERNANDEZ, LLC SERVES IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

• Automobiles
• Heavy Equipment
• Auto body and service

The needs of each automotive and dealer client are unique. In an effort to help our clients within this industry garner insight that is translated into action, Rackers & Fernandez, LLC has served the industry in the following areas:

SERVICE EXPERIENCE

• Agreed Upon Procedures and Internal Controls Testing
• Accounting Services
• Employee Benefit Plans
• Merger & Acquisition Services
• Systems Implementation
• Financial Benchmarking and Profitability Analysis
• Tax Planning
• Financing and Floor Plan Strategies
• Profitability Analysis

With today’s volatile market, the business pressures facing construction companies are constantly shifting, making it both a capital-intensive and complex industry to navigate. We understand the unique issues your business faces. Whether the conversation is about driving profit, tax optimizing revenues, creative finance, or bonding, the construction team at Rackers & Fernandez, LLC can deliver.

WHO RACKERS & FERNANDEZ, LLC SERVES IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY

• Commercial Construction
• Residential Construction
• Road Construction
• Construction Suppliers
• Specialty Contractors:
• Electrical Contractors
• Plumbing Contractors
• HVAC Contractors
• Siding Contractors
• Roofing Contractors

As a family-owned business for over years, the strategies we have learned provide us with firsthand insight into the unique opportunities and challenges that many closely-held and family-owned businesses experience each and every day. Whether it’s taxation issues, succession planning, or other accounting needs, Rackers & Fernandez, LLC has the direct knowledge needed to help keep your business in the family ensuring success for the next generation.

In today’s dynamic marketplace of business consolidation, intense competition and rapidly expanding regulatory pressures, the food and beverage industry is facing its toughest challenges in years. Restaurateurs and retailers need more than an accounting historian, they need a financial leader. Rackers & Fernandez, LLC understands the food and beverage industry.

Services
Accounting and Assurance Services

• Agreed Upon Procedures
• Compliance Services
• Merger and Acquisition Services
• Reviews and Compilations

Tax Services

• Corporate Taxation
• Estate Planning
• Federal, State and Local Tax Planning and Preparation
• International Taxation
• Property Tax Return Preparation
• Tax Credit and Incentives
• Tax Minimization Strategies
• Transaction Advisory
• W-2 and 1099 Preparation

Advisory Services

• Controllership Services and Outsourced Staffing
• Financial Benchmarking
• Internal Auditing
• Profitability Analysis and Optimization Strategies
• Risk Management Consulting

Businesses Served by Rackers & Fernandez, LLC’s Food and Beverage Team

• Family owned restaurants
• Franchise restaurants
• Food and Beverage Retailers

Does your CPA truly know home builders? Rackers & Fernandez, LLC’s home builder team understands the challenges you face in today’s competitive marketplace. We build lasting client relationships on a foundation of understanding client strategy, goals, and long term aspirations.

Our home building team diligently works to bring proactive solutions to your organization to drive more predictable and profitable business outcomes. We want your business to win. We’re motivated by partnering with you to seize opportunities unique to your business, increasing cash flow, minimizing taxes, reducing business risks, and streamlining operations. Contact us today to explore ways that Rackers & Fernandez, LLC’s home building expertise could help you achieve new levels of success and profitability.

WHO RACKERS & FERNANDEZ, LLC SERVES IN THE HOME BUILDER INDUSTRY

• Custom Home Builders
• Spec Home Builders
• Multi-Family and Mixed Use Builders
• Land Developers

When it comes to manufacturing and distribution, maximizing profits while minimizing your tax burden are major keys to success. Our professionals have a deep understanding of state and local tax code applicable to manufacturers, enabling us to identify missed tax incentives. We can also help maximize plant operations, manage inventory, and streamline other business operations that will help you cut costs.

Services
Accounting and Assurance Services

• Review and compilations of financial statements
• Compliance services
• Agreed upon procedures
• Merger and Acquisition services

Tax Services

• Local, state, and federal tax planning
• Merger and Acquisition consulting
• Accounting Method Strategies

Advisory Services

• Controllership services and outsourced staffing
• Financial Benchmarking
• Financial Simulations
• Innovation Consulting
• Internal Auditing
• Profitability analysis and optimization strategies
• DPAD – Section 199
• Research and Development Tax Credits

With proactive and insightful planning, we assist in identifying and maximizing opportunities for buyers and sellers. Our transaction team is ready to leverage our experience and resources to provide you with a coordinated, strategic approach to meeting your transactional and business needs. Our multidisciplinary team of tax advisors and accountants know the issues and can help you leverage all benefits of current law to maximize available tax opportunities.

Services
Advisory Services

• Acquisition risk assessment
• Earnings Quality Due Diligence
• Tax attribute studies and consulting
• Analysis and structuring of taxable and tax-free acquisitions and reorganizations to minimize risk and maximize available tax benefits
• Tax and financial due diligence services
• Structuring and reverse due diligence to assist in preparing for the sale of a business
• Personal goodwill planning and structuring
• Purchase price and equity related allocations for both tax and financial reporting purposes
• Financial modeling to assist in making critical business decisions
• Post-transaction tax integration services
• Additional advisory services including business model simulations and innovation consulting to provide valuable information to decision makers

With proactive and insightful planning, we assist in identifying and maximizing opportunities for buyers and sellers. Our transaction team is ready to leverage our experience and resources to provide you with a coordinated, strategic approach to meeting your transactional and business needs. Our multidisciplinary team of tax advisors and accountants know the issues and can help you leverage all benefits of current law to maximize available tax opportunities.

Services
Advisory Services

• Acquisition risk assessment
• Earnings Quality Due Diligence
• Tax attribute studies and consulting
• Analysis and structuring of taxable and tax-free acquisitions and reorganizations to minimize risk and maximize available tax benefits
• Tax and financial due diligence services
• Structuring and reverse due diligence to assist in preparing for the sale of a business
• Personal goodwill planning and structuring
• Purchase price and equity related allocations for both tax and financial reporting purposes
• Financial modeling to assist in making critical business decisions
• Post-transaction tax integration services
• Additional advisory services including business model simulations and innovation consulting to provide valuable information to decision makers

Being in the professional services industry ourselves, we understand the constant pressure to maximize employee productivity, attract and retain the best employees, and provide top-level customer service. Whether your firm’s service is law, engineering, architecture, marketing, or another type of consulting, our goal is to work creatively with you to accomplish your business goals, both now and well into the future.
Services

Accounting and Assurance Services

• Review and compilations of financial statements
• Compliance services
• Agreed upon procedures
• Merger and Acquisition services

Tax Services

• Corporate Taxation
• Estate planning
• Federal, state and local tax planning and preparation
• International Taxation
• Property tax return preparation
• Tax Controversy
• Tax Credit and Incentives
• Tax minimization strategies
• Transaction Advisory
• W-2 and 1099 preparation Local, state, and federal tax planning
• Merger and Acquisition consulting
• Accounting Method Strategies

Advisory Services

• Controllership services and outsourced staffing
• Financial Benchmarking
• Financial Simulations
• Innovation Consulting
• Internal Auditing
• Profitability analysis and optimization strategies

Who we serve:

• Consulting Firms
• Creative Services
• Engineering Firms
• Law Firms
• Marketing Agencies

Rackers & Fernandez, LLC’s real estate group is well equipped to provide any real estate client comprehensive tax and consulting solutions. In the midst of a dynamic real estate market, Rackers & Fernandez, LLC delivers you the tools and expertise needed to manage your real estate investment. We approach each engagement with a big picture perspective, collaborating across our many experiences and specialties to provide each client with a comprehensive service solution that works for their unique needs. Regardless how small or large your real estate dealings, we offer all the accounting practices you need to stay on top.

Services
Accounting and Assurance Services

• Review & compilations of financial statements
• Compliance services

Tax Services

• Local, state, and federal tax planning
• Merger and Acquisition consulting
• Accounting Method Strategies
• Enterprise Zone Tax Credits

Advisory Services

• Bankruptcy, Insolvency, and Workout Solutions
• Controllership services and outsourced staffing
• Debt Financing / Re-Financing Consulting
• Due Diligence for Real Estate Acquisition
• Financial Benchmarking
• Financial Simulations
• Innovation Consulting
• Internal Auditing
• IRC section 754 Basis step-up calculations
• IT Auditing and Consulting
• Profitability analysis and optimization strategies
• Research and Development Tax Credits
• Transaction Consulting

With the never ending flow of cash and transactions, a primary need in the retail sector is to establish efficient accounting systems to monitor and record a huge quantity of financial data. Rackers & Fernandez, LLC provides the full range of accounting services necessary to ensure both the short-term and long-term profitability of your retail business.

Change is constant within your technology or life science company. In fact, you’re a catalyst for change both within and outside the organization. Rackers & Fernandez, LLC’s technology and life sciences team is equipped to help you navigate the dynamic marketplace and ever-changing regulatory environment impacting these unique industries. It is critical you’re equipped with the right tools and data to make quality decisions in a timely fashion. Whether your company is an emerging start-up, or an established player in a quickly evolving market, we go beyond traditional accounting and auditing services to deliver unique insight to your business.

Rackers & Fernandez, LLC offers a wide array of proactive financial management, strategic planning and advisory services to technology and life science companies at every stage of business growth and development, including:

Services
Accounting and Assurance Services

• Review & compilations of financial statements
• Compliance services
• Agreed upon procedures
• Merger and Acquisition services

Tax Services

• Local, state, and federal tax planning and compliance
• Merger and Acquisition consulting
• Accounting Method reviews and optimization

Advisory Services

• Controllership services and outsourced staffing
• Debt Financing / Re-Financing Consulting
• Design and implementation of internal controls and procedures
• Due Diligence for Real Estate Acquisition
• Financial Benchmarking
• Financial Simulations
• Innovation Consulting
• Internal Auditing
• Profitability analysis and optimization strategies
• Research and Development Tax Credits
• Revenue recognition consulting
• Transaction Consulting

Estate planning remains crucial even in this current climate of federal estate tax uncertainty. Working with trusted advisors and through careful planning, we can ensure business succession, and maximize the financial legacy for estate beneficiaries.

We work closely with family members, personal representatives, and attorneys to help minimize estate taxes and assure fulfillment of the estate plan. We prepare the necessary tax returns, including the estate and fiduciary income tax returns.

A valuable tool in estate planning is the use of one or more trusts. Rackers & Fernandez, LLC professionals have the experience to guide trustees through the administration of a trust and assist in complying with federal and state tax requirements. We will also assist in trust funding and related asset selection and disclaimer education and planning.

For over 25 years, Rackers & Fernandez, LLC professionals have been providing the expertise to help clients reach their goals. Call us today to see how we can help you reach yours.