Our Services

Accounting Services

At Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA, we recognize that accurate, well-organized financial information is critical to your corporate or personal financial health. Our detail-oriented and insightful staff is committed to providing the comprehensive reports, analysis, and services you need to manage your finances and assess your financial position. We offer a broad spectrum of meaningful and cost-effective accounting and auditing services, from bookkeeping services to financial statement preparation to financial analysis to help you to manage your finances efficiently and accurately.

Bookkeeping/Write-Up Services

To succeed in business, you need to know where you are, financially. Well-organized, accurate financial records help your business run more efficiently, and are fundamental to the business decisions you are called upon to make every day. Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA has the expertise to provide thorough full-charge bookkeeping services, including general journal and subsidiary ledger maintenance, bank statement reconciliation, and tracking and analysis of receivables and payables to help you keep your financial information accurate and up-to-date.

Compilation, Review, and Audit Analysis

Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA provides professional compilation, review, and audit services to businesses of all sizes. We bring a passion for detail and accuracy and a wealth of accounting and auditing experience to the examination of your financial statements. Whether you need a detailed audit for your bank, a review for potential investors, or a compilation for your annual report, or your company has a reporting or compliance need outside the standard scope of any of these, MICHAEL W. GUTWETTER, CPA can quickly and accurately compile your financial records into meaningful GAAP-compliant financial statements that adhere to the highest standards, offer limited-scope review testing, and can deliver complete audit attestation.

You’ve worked hard to achieve success and build wealth, and comprehensive estate planning is a common-sense way to ensure that your hard-earned assets and the people you love are both protected in the future. Effective estate planning is critical to conserve your assets, both for you to enjoy in retirement and for the next generation, and to minimize the impact of estate and inheritance taxes on your beneficiaries. Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA has the knowledge and experience to help you formulate a successful plan for the future. We can review your financial position, recognize and minimize or eliminate potential liquidity issues caused by federal and state estate taxes, and employ a wide array of instruments such as trusts and charitable entities to maximize your assets and protect your beneficiaries.

It is never too early to start planning for retirement if you want to maintain your current lifestyle, or achieve an even better one. Careful planning helps you avoid common pitfalls and retirement planning mistakes and puts you on a solid footing to ensure that your retirement lives up to your expectations. At Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA, our retirement planning specialists listen to your objectives and goals, evaluate your current circumstances, and collaborate with you to formulate a comprehensive, achievable retirement plan. We compare the relative benefits of stocks, bonds, and other retirement assets, and explain the differences between retirement plans, including standard IRAs, tax-deferred annuities, and Roth IRAs. No matter where you are now – whether just starting out or close to retirement age - Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA can analyze your projected income and expenses and suggest investment funding techniques to help put you on the road to achieving your retirement dreams.

At Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA, our experienced staff of business consultants is committed to assisting you through every phase of the business life cycle, applying our experience and insight to provide you with meaningful and practical strategies and solutions to address the issues facing your business. From incorporation through business succession planning, we provide the comprehensive advice, insight, and technical expertise you need to help your business achieve success at any stage.

Starting a business is challenging on many levels, from the hard work of establishing yourself in the marketplace to the complexities of managing the paperwork, and it’s easy to become overwhelmed without expert advice. With years of real-world, hands-on business experience behind us, the team of detail-oriented professionals at Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA will not only help you to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of corporations, partnerships, and LLCs, ensuring that you select the right entity for your new business, but can also guide you through formulating a business plan, dealing with any necessary registration, permitting, or licensing processes, managing compliance with local, state, and federal laws, and can even provide a market evaluation to allow you to position your new business as advantageously as possible in the marketplace, or a business valuation, if you are considering the purchase of an existing business.

You worked hard to establish a successful business, and thoughtful business succession or exit planning is the key to ensuring that your business will continue to flourish in the future, without your day-to-day involvement. Too often, healthy, successful businesses are negatively impacted by a lack of succession or exit planning, from unclear transfer of leadership to liquidity problems stemming from unexpected inheritance taxes or costs. As experts in the field of business succession and business exit planning, Michael W. Gutwetter, CPA can help you to design a comprehensive strategy to avoid these problems and achieve your objectives, giving you the peace of mind that comes from knowing that your business will enjoy a smooth continuance, and your heirs and business associates will be well protected.

We provide our clients with quarterly payroll tax filings as well as monthly and quarterly sales tax filings.