Representative Services « Perisho Tombor Ramirez Filler & Brown

Perisho Tombor Ramirez Filler & Brown offers a variety of specialized accounting and auditing services including:

Performance/Profit Planning

Prepare charts and graphs and special management reports (Business Performance Analysis Reports) summarizing financial highlights and trends, and liquidity and profitability ratios; all measured against industry statistics to help business owners analyze and benchmark their financial results.
Analyze sustainable growth rates to assist management in planning profitability, asset turnover and financial leverage parameters
Assist companies in a wide variety of finance and accounting related projects to enhance business performance and profitability

Prepare lease vs. buy analysis for government contractors to document that computer operating leases would result in less cost to the government
Prepare analysis of equipment and facility leases to determine whether capital lease criteria specified in accounting standards are met
Prepare position papers on the accounting for sale-leaseback transactions involving special purpose entities

Assist in the preparation of operating and capital budgets
Develop financial models to budget divisional or business-line operations and aggregate amounts into consolidated company totals

Develop capital budgeting processes for companies, including guidelines on how quantitative analysis methods should be used to evaluate capital investment opportunities
Property and Equipment
- Assist in establishing policies and procedures to control capital assets including asset tagging, physical inventories, capital budget approvals, purchase authorizations and custody controls over portable computer equipment
- Assist in establishing depreciation and lease obligation records

Assist in preparing forecasted balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements with analysis of ratios compared to bank covenant requirements
Assist with forecasting net income and determining a dividend and distribution policy that meest the needs of both stockholders and creditors
Provide assistance in preparing projected financial statements to obtain additional debt or equity financing
Assist in restructuring loans and covenants and negotiating increases in lines of credit
Assist troubled companies in developing a plan to enable them to continue current operations and retire outstanding bank debt
Assist companies with the overall development of a business plan for use in obtaining financing

Review insurance policies and advise on coverages
Analyze and correct the accounting for complex deferred compensation plans funded with life insurance

Assist in analyzing activity-based costing behavior of expense accounts and the development of product line profitability analysis
Assist manufacturing companies in establishing and implementing a standard cost and material requirements planning (MRP) system
Develop labor overhead rates for job cost systems

Assist in the development of an accounting procedures manual covering key accounting cycles such as accounts receivable, cash management, payroll, property and equipment, and accounts payable
Perform tests and analysies of adherence to accounting procedures and contract compliance.

Prepare accounts receivable reports to analyze agings, days sales outstanding and variance from performance targets
Draft a credit and collection policy manual

Evaluate current cash controls to identify problem areas and develop recommendations to improve cash internal controls over cash
Develop short-term cash reports to monitor cash balances and bank float to reduce line of credit borrowings

Assist in establishing goals for profitability and cost reductions by preparing low cost summaries of expenses for the recent years with percentages of each figure in relation to sales
Assist in determining which costs have remained in line and which costs have exceeded the increase in sales percentages