
Privately-held Businesses
Together, we will achieve excellence for the success of your business.
In addition to traditional CPA services, ScrogginsGrear offers a comprehensive array of consulting and advisory services for the specific needs of your privately-held company.
Financial Advisory Services
Our experienced team of trusted advisors appreciates the opportunity to provide audit, accounting, tax, and consulting services to meet your company’s specific needs.
Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
Providing financial information in a timely and accurate manner is our commitment to you. Meaningful, well-organized financial records ensure that your business will run more efficiently. At ScrogginsGrear, we can provide your business or your family with a full range of cost-effective accounting services including the following:
- General ledger & financial statement preparation
- Bookkeeping (monthly/quarterly/annually)
- Accounting system setup
- Business tax return preparation
- Personal financial statements
- Litigation support
Audits, Reviews & Compilations—Including 401(k) Plan Audits
Our role in the financial reporting process is providing independent assurance to help your company with compliance issues and constructive solutions for maximizing profitability and efficiency. We provide financial reporting on all three levels of assurance:
- Audit an extensive examination (highest level of assurance)
- Review inquiry and analytical procedures (limited level of assurance)
- Compilation reporting client information in a financial statement format (no assurance)
With a trusted reputation for providing outstanding service to our clients, ScrogginsGrear continues to earn the highest possible rating and clean reports on our American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) Peer Reviews!
Does your 401(k) plan need an audit?
Employee Benefit Plan Audit
The accounting and tax issues involved with employer-provided benefit plans can be overwhelming. We have years of experience auditing a variety of employee benefit plans.
Has your eligible employee participation increased?
Many companies’ 401(k) and retirement plans are too small to need an external audit. If your employee participation has increased, we can help you determine your needs. With our membership in the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center of the AICPA, our team will make sure you are compliant with your plan document, and with DOL (Department of Labor) and IRS (Internal Revenue Service) rules.
Business Entity Selections
Choosing the form of entity of your business is a crucial decision that can have longstanding tax implications, positive or negative. Should you establish an S corporation, sole proprietorship, or Limited Liability Company? We can assist you in evaluating the pros and cons of each entity type to help you determine the most advantageous form of business for your company.
Cash Flow & Budgeting Analysis
We can assist with budget preparation and analysis to help you forecast and evaluate your financial condition and track cash flow sources and uses.
Financial Forecasts & Projections
Forecasting is a necessity when trying to effectively manage and lead a business to profitability. From simple projections to complex financial modeling, our experienced staff can assist you in achieving your company’s financial goals.
Retirement Plan Design & Administration
Optimizing Your Retirement
A retirement plan often represents an individual’s largest financial asset. Consequently, government agencies are very interested in retirement plan compliance. We provide plan service with the utmost care and diligence called for in this highly regulated and monitored environment. Our membership in the American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries provides us with timely technical updates and the latest planning strategies.
Objectivity and Flexibility
We are independent of investment products; thus, our plan design and administrative services give you unlimited investment flexibility. You can change an investment product or advisor without disrupting your plan’s foundational document and administration.
Examining Your Plan
Correct design and funding are key to your retirement plan (and your employees). Qualified retirement plans are the best way to shelter income, to prepare for the future, and to attract and retain the best employees. We can help you with:
- Maximizing contributions for the business owner
- Providing cost-effective but competitive benefits for employees
- A 401(k) plan or even a defined benefit pension plan which has a much higher funding limit than a 401(k) plan
Is it time to examine your existing plan—or establish one? We can help design and administer the right retirement plan for you.
Strategic Planning
Even the most qualified leaders can benefit from competent, objective feedback. We can help your company’s management team develop long-term objectives and specific strategies to facilitate your business’s future growth and success. Successful implementation and periodic review of your financial/strategic plan will ensure financial independence during your working and retirement years.
Tax Planning & Preparation Services
In tax planning and preparation, less is more. Let us work with you to develop strategies that will maximize your tax benefits and write-offs and minimize your tax liabilities.
Estate & Trust Tax Preparation
Effective estate and gift planning facilitates the orderly transfer of assets to your beneficiaries, provides security, and can reduce or eliminate the tax due on the transfer of your business and other assets. For business owners, providing for continuity and succession of ownership is essential. We can guide you through the complex process.
IRS Representation
During our years of experience dealing with many taxing authorities, we have achieved a level of competence that can ensure our clients they are being properly represented before the various federal and state tax agencies.
Sales Tax Services
Many of our clients are responsible for collecting and submitting sales taxes in many different vicinities. We can assist your business in the compilation of information and preparation of sales tax returns in an efficient and timely manner.
Tax Planning
Tax planning is an essential element of the tax preparation process. By making tax planning part of your overall business strategy, you can use our experience and access to the most current new developments in the tax laws to minimize both your current and future tax liabilities. We also offer personal tax planning and preparation.
Tax Preparation
Our computerized tax preparation and research software enables us to prepare returns accurately and efficiently for various types of entities, including individuals, corporations, partnerships, trusts, estates, and nonprofit organizations.
Workplace Culture Solutions
It is critical for any organization to have the right people in the right seats. Is your whole team rowing in the same direction? Let us help you inspire your team, solve problems before they start, and enhance communication throughout your organization.
Employee Handbook Design
We can assist you in the development of personnel policy manuals.
Recruitment
Our HR team can:
- Help you find the right people for your business
- Provide a wide range of preemployment testing
- Help you solve complicated staffing issues
Talent Assessment & Employee Development
Talent Assessment
Our online talent assessment and reports can help you:
Improve Hiring
Use prehire analytics to measure potential hires against the skill sets needed for the position.
Identify Skill Sets
Use these online talent assessments and reports to identify skillsets, help you hire the right people and/or drive the career growth of your current employees.
Employee Development
Develop your current employees. Our online development assessments and reports help you give current employees clear paths for capitalizing on strengths and closing any gaps.
Management & Executive Coaching
Understand your people and yourself. We can work with your management team to provide customized on-site training and individual executive coaching, which will enhance your team’s management and leadership skills to achieve outstanding results.
Culture Assessment
We believe culture trumps strategy. We can assist you in analyzing your company’s culture and offer solutions to assist you in creating and maintaining a healthy culture.
Communication Skills Training
Are the one-one-one interactions in your organization causing you strife and thwarting productivity? Our communication workshops use a proven skill-building approach that teaches your people the relational and interpersonal skills necessary to build a thriving culture.
Conflict Resolution
When people do not see eye to eye, the whole organization is affected. Our skilled consultants can take you through our four-phase process to discuss issues respectfully, rebuild trust, and move forward on a new trajectory.

TECHNICAL COMPLIANCE
- Accounting & Bookkeeping Services
- Audits, Reviews & Compilations
- Retirement Plan Administration
- Tax Planning & Preparation
ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
- Strategic Planning
- Startup & Acquisition Services
- Retirement Plan Design
- Culture Assessments & Team Training
OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
- Leadership Support & Training
- Team Development
- Talent Assessment & Acquisition
- Human Resources Support Services
200 Northland Boulevard
Cincinnati, OH 45246
Phone: 513.771.7070
Fax: 513.326.7640
Office hours:
Monday through Friday
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.