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.		In light of the calamitous events that have befallen corporate America in recent years, including the downfall of Enron, Worldcom, the Roslyn School District, and Arthur Anderson, a renewed emphasis has been placed on internal controls and establishing systems to prevent and detect fraud. We have decades of experience in assessing organizations. systems of internal control and developing recommendations to strengthen these systems. In order to facilitate these services, the highest-level individuals in the firm take part in these engagements. These engagements principally consist of gaining an in-depth knowledge of the client based on internal policies and procedures and conversations with staff members. Through these discussions, we are able to abstract intimate knowledge of the organization, what drives its operations, where it needs to improve, and what threatens it. We then serve as business advisors to our clients, offering them solutions to the issues and challenges that they contend with on a daily basis. We then complete the circuit by assisting the organization in implementing our recommendations. These reviews consistently result in our clients achieving unprecedented levels of success in both fiscal and structural terms. Our team is well versed in the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and similar legislation, and strives to ensure that all of our clients, regardless of size or industry, remain in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations. In so doing, cost savings and areas for revenue growth routinely result. We have performed operational and internal control reviews for countless clients in various not-for-profit sectors and small businesses. We have also worked with clients to look at their business model and make recommendations on how to enhance productivity, reduce profitability shrinkage, and maximize billing/revenue streams. We are confident that our ability to delve deeply into the full operational picture of an organization is unsurpassed by our peers. We are similarly confident that our ability to assist an organization in lowering costs, growing revenue, and strengthening internal controls is also second-to-none. If you would like further information regarding our operational/internal control review services, please do not hesitate to contact us.