SERVICES
Small Business Accounting and Advisory Services
We specialize in small business. Let us help you by
providing the accounting, tax, and advisory services
that fit your company.
Bookkeeping
How’s your company doing? The best way to answer this question is with accurate and timely financial statements. As part of our bookkeeping/write up practice, we’ll record your transactions, reconcile your bank and credit card accounts, and provide you with customized financial statements to help evaluate your company’s performance.
Payroll
Let our experts save you money and time by processing your payroll at your frequency of choice. We can work with your financial institution to pay your employees through direct deposit or we can print secure checks. We’ll handle all the required reporting and let you know when and how to pay your payroll taxes.
Coaching and Consultation
Our experienced professionals are eager to help your company through any stage of its life cycle.
Entity Selection – What type of entity should you be? Is your company organized properly? Let us help!
Internal Control – We can help you safeguard your assets with controls designed to prevent theft and ensure financial reporting accuracy.
Maximize Cash Flow– Are you making all you can? Our professionals can compare your performance to similar entities in your industry and help you evaluate whether you are surpassing or lagging behind the competition. This process will highlight your company’s strengths and weaknesses and pinpoint areas that will greatly improve your cash flow.
Retirement – Are you taking advantage of opportunities to defer tax through a retirement plan? Does your plan fit your business or is there a better one out there for you?
Budgets and Projections – Where will you be next year? How will your tax situation look? Let us help you budget and project your earnings and cash flow.
Billing and Bill Payment
Keep your employees doing what they are paid to do and let our professionals send
and pay your bills. Using our staff and software could save you money and long hours
on the job.
QuickBooks
If you want to keep your routine accounting tasks in house, we can provide installation and training for your QuickBooks software. After your software is installed, we’ll continue to work with you as needed to ensure that your software is providing you with accurate financial information.
Other Services
Our professionals can also help your company with its sales tax, use tax or other industry-specific reporting requirements.
Taxes
We understand that it’s not what you earn, it’s what you keep! We help our clients keep what they earn by obtaining an understanding of each client’s tax situation and using that knowledge to provide solutions through innovative tax planning and concise preparation. We’ll help you minimize your taxes and stay in compliance with the taxing authorities. We have vast experience in the preparation of all types of tax returns for individuals, small businesses, non-profits, estates, and trusts. We’ll also securely e-file your tax return.
Audits and Reviews
Need an audit or a review of your financial statements? Our professionals know how to efficiently and effectively plan an audit or review that will satisfy your needs and minimize business interruption. Our areas of expertise include:
- Commercial Entities
- School Districts
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Employee Benefit Plans
We will strive not only to meet the requirements of your financial institution or government oversight agency, but to add value to your organization by providing management with insights and suggestions for improvement from an independent perspective.
Business Valuation and Litigation Support
Business Valuation
What’s your business worth? What would improve its value? Our staff includes Certified Valuation Analysts who can provide the answers. Business valuations are needed in situations involving estate and gift tax planning, business mergers and acquisitions, divorce, and litigation. We have experience in valuing all types of businesses from professional practices to manufacturing operations.
Litigation Support
Our analysts have experience as expert witnesses and can assist in any type of litigation support needed by attorneys. We can help with divorce proceedings, mediation, or other disputes that arise. We are also trained to provide forensic accounting services to assist in civil and criminal cases and internal investigations.
The Eaton, Babb & Smith Difference
Client-Relationship Centered
At Eaton, Babb & Smith, we enjoy building long-term relationships with our clients. We listen to our clients in order to solve problems and to provide the customized services they need. We’re partners with our clients, working together with them to achieve their business and life goals.
From our three offices in North Mississippi, we serve clients across the nation, even as far away as Alaska. Join our many clients who have come to depend on our exceptional, timely services delivered in a warm, friendly, Southern manner.
A Team Approach
Our firm’s greatest assets are the professionals that come
to work every day. Our professional staff includes four CPAs with more than three decades of experience in providing comprehensive services to individuals and small businesses, three who scored in the top 10 in our states on the CPA exam, and three who have extensive Big 4 experience. All of us have different areas of expertise. At Eaton, Babb & Smith, we rely on each other to get our clients to the right place. The result is unparalleled client service and unique solutions for our clients.
One Stop Shop
Need help with QuickBooks? We have a QuickBooks ProAdvisor and others with QuickBooks experience. Interested in improving cash flow? Our professionals can analyze your performance and help you improve. Got a tax problem or simply want to reduce your tax liability? We can help. And our Certified Valuation Analysts will tell you how much your business is worth and how to increase its value. Our firm is a total solutions provider. It’s all here in one place.