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
Tax Trivia
In honor of the end of this year's tax season, here's some trivia questions for you! We can't promise they'll make you a hit at the next dinner party, but some of them are interesting nonetheless. How many answers do you know?The first true income tax ever was in what...
Where does it Come From?
We’ve all seen the pie charts of where our federal dollars go, but I had never thought about where those dollars come from until I read an article in the Wall Street Journal last April. Would you be as surprised as I to find out that just over half of federal...
Possible Pitfalls in the New Jersey Inheritance Tax
While New Jersey eliminated the estate tax in 2018, the inheritance tax is still alive and well. The New Jersey inheritance tax is a tax on inheritances left to non-lineal, Class C and Class D beneficiaries[1]. If you are a New Jersey resident and you plan on leaving...
A Review of NJ Estate and Inheritance Taxes
When you think of the state of New Jersey and taxes, you usually expect them to be on the higher side relative to other states. When it comes to the “death tax” or estate taxes, New Jersey has surprisingly become more favorable over time. Many of our clients have...
Bonus Depreciation Phase-Out
As we all may be aware, the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) benefited businesses by providing 100% bonus depreciation on certain qualified assets. As this provision started phasing out at the end of 2022, businesses should already be thinking about how this will...
Relief from Losses from Hurricane Ian
Many local taxpayers own homes and other property in the areas impacted by Hurricane Ian. In the wake of Hurricane Ian, the states of Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina have been declared federal disaster areas. Individuals who have property that was...