Looking to rack up some mileage points on your credit card? Consider paying your taxes by credit card...                                               In today’s paycheck to paycheck environment, too many people live for today and don’t always focus on their future. In fact, many Americans look at winning the lottery as their only hope for a comfortable retirement...                                               According to the Internal Revenue Service, there has been a 21% percent increase in audits this year. Out of 130.6 million individual returns, there were 1.2 million audits conducted...                                               The IRS has issued new regulations that will allow most businesses and individuals, by filing a single form, to request a six-month automatic filing extension for tax years ending after December 31, 2005.		The professionals at Cerini & Associates devote much of their time working with small businesses, non-profit organizations, and other entities in an attempt to help them reach financial and operational goals. We have a proven track record of assisting companies in every facet of their financial lives. Our professionals understand the needs and ambitions of small business owners and work with them to achieve their goals. We have helped our small business clients increase sales, improve profitability, and enhance their quality of life through the development of strategic and innovative ideas and recommendations. We maintain open lines of communications with our clients and continually ask probing questions to determine ways to increase efficiencies and expand margins. View our Success Stories page for real-life testimonials of how we have helped our clients achieve unprecedented levels of personal and business success. We also offer specialized consulting services with specific goals in mind for each engagement. Our firm has functioned as the chief financial officer for multiple businesses, or, as we like to call it, "CFO in the Box." Many businesses do not have the resources to hire a high-caliber, full-time CFO; however their operations require more than a bookkeeper or controller. We can fill this position on a weekly, monthly, quarterly basis at a relatively low cost, and with the needed experience and professionalism that all CFOs must possess. We have performed countless operational and internal control reviews, which uncover weaknesses, deficiencies, or inefficiencies within an organization's operations. Recommendations that ultimately result from these reviews normally provide tremendous cost savings and strengthening of internal control systems, which prevents fraudulent, inappropriate, and inefficient activity. We also serve as internal auditors for several organizations that require independent oversight of their everyday operations. We perform testwork, observations, and inquiries of the detailed processes and procedures that make the businesses run, and constantly make suggestions to save costs, increase revenue, strengthen internal controls, and shift employees' responsibilities. We have developed a strong market presence in consulting for various education-related entities, including school districts, Special Education programs, private schools, amongst others. We have helped educational facilities establish initial budgets for rate-setting purposes and held their hands until their programs were fully operational and running effectively. We also are active in filing appeals with various funding sources to better match the true costs of operating educational programs. We have been extremely successful in recouping lost costs and increasing organizations' rates through the appeals process. If you feel like your current accountant doesn't go the extra mile in providing you with quality, useful, advice that helps to drive quantum results, please contact us so that we may discuss your operations and how we can help your business maximize its potential.