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Bookkeeping, Payroll, Tax & Technology Services for Small-to-Medium Businesses
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Our mission is to leverage our expertise and experience to help you make your business more successful.  Each client gets a tailored solution that best fits how he or she wants to work with us as well as meeting any budget constraints.  Our philosophy is to find the best-value solution for the client.
 
We can work one-on-one with you, or if you have a larger project needing a team of experts, we have a network of part-time and contract resources available to us.
About The Principal
 
After very successful corporate careers at MetLife and Hanover Insurance as a Senior Information Systems and Human Resources Executive, Sam Bowden has focused his talents and energies on the world of small-to-medium businesses.  He has honed his skills in this area through direct business ownership & management,  investing in these businesses, and serving as technical advisor and business coach.
 
Among the specific skills and experience Sam brings to each client are the following:
 
  • 20+ years of practical experience & education:
    • Providing technology solutions to meet business management information needs
    • Financial and management reporting
    • Advising business clients and helping them select the best approaches to using technology to optimize their businesses
    • Managing projects to come in on-time and within budget
    • Microsoft Excel, Word, Powerpoint & Access
    • Personal computer operating systems and applications along the evolutionary lines from MS-DOS through Windows Vista
  • 15+ years hands-on experience & training:
    • Quicken, Quickbooks, Turbotax, Lacerte, and payroll solutions offered by Intuit
    • Quickbooks Certified ProAdvisor 2008 & 2009 and Quickbooks Enterprise Solutions v9 Certified ProAdvisor
    • Applying bookkeeping, payroll and tax reporting skills & knowledge
    • Using internet connectivity, tools and applications to boost personal and business productivity
  • 10+ years direct experience and training as a small business advisor, investor and owner-manager:

    • Cash flow management

o    Inventory control

    • Cash drawer management

o    Point-of-Sale system management

    • Accounts Payable & Receivable 

o    Payroll & payroll tax reporting

    • Quickbooks set-up and bookkeeping

o    Account and bank reconciliations

    • Corporate tax reporting

o    Employee hiring, development & scheduling

    • Financial  management & reporting

o    Small office computer networking

 

Sam is a summa cum laude graduate of Wofford College and a member of Phi Beta Kappa.  He is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute and a member of the American Institute of Professional Bookkeepers and the National Bookkeepers Association.