Casinos
Our team of accounting professionals has skills and knowledge specific to casinos and the gaming industry. We serve our clients with comprehensive services as outlined below:
Outsourced Internal Audit
Our extensive experience in the gaming industry, including tribal gaming operations, as well as our background in providing client audit services, positions our firm to deliver efficient and effective analyses of the functionality of the all-important control environment within a gaming operation. We have developed an understanding of the design and implementation of a sound internal control structure, compliant with applicable regulatory requirements, based on assistance provided to various entities in their start-up phase where we have assisted with the system submission to the regulatory authority. This understanding has been further developed during the assessment of the effectiveness of those systems gathered during internal audits of gaming operations.
Income Tax Provision Calculations
We have assisted the accounting department in their preparation for the annual financial statement audit performed by external auditors. We have found this element of the year-end audit to be one which the in-house accounting department may not possess the requisite experience and understanding necessary to prepare the income tax provision. Our services augment the accounting department, eliminating the need to bring on additional staff, as well as addressing the need to address the conflict of interest concerns as regulated by Sarbanes Oxley which preclude external auditors from preparing the income tax provision analysis.
Consulting and Agreed-upon Procedures
Our firm’s breadth and depth of business experience provide us with the ability and tools to approach your gaming operation with the trained eye of an objective observer. Whether these services include revenue enhancement/expense reduction analytics, cash flow analyses, or due diligence engagements, our passionate and professional approach to your business concerns lead us to seek solutions that will address your operating issues.
Industry Insights
The Tax Scam Cometh – Beware!
Author: Catherine M. Miskiv, CPA Statistics show that phishing has become rampant and, based on the number of calls we receive from clients, the scammers are very good at impersonating the taxing authorities. This past year we saw a significant increase in incidences...
Business Health Checkup: Pre-Tax Net Income – Operating Expenses
Authors: David Wagstaff and Calvin Longer Periodically we will highlight a ratio or benchmark and talk about how you can use these to better understand your business. The disclaimer: Benchmarks and ratios, blindly applied, can be dangerous. Benchmarks can be useful...
Does Your Practice Need a Wellness Visit?
You may need to re-evaluate your internal controls. We’ve all read about it in the newspaper- someone has stolen funds from his employer, his partner, his pension fund, his shareholders. Maybe we know them and maybe we don’t, but there’s one thing we’re sure of: we...
Top 10 “To-Do’s” for Non-Profits
Sometimes even the most proactive and well managed organizations need to revisit some of their tax, governance and management policies, procedures and protocols, especially if it has been a few years since they were last addressed. Here are some items that might make...
What’s New on the Form 1040 (2013)
Change in Tax Rates Beginning in 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 imposes new higher 39.6% and 20% tax rates on ordinary income and long-term capital gains, respectively. The new top ordinary income tax rate of 39.6% is imposed on taxable income over...
Assessing the Potential Impact of the Supreme Court Ruling on Maryland Tax Law on Individuals
Estimated $200 Million in Refunds Will Be Made Available to Maryland Residents… Will Residents of Your Home State Benefit Next? Monday, May 18th marked the date of a landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court. In a five-to-four ruling, the Supreme Court ruled (in...