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Your CFO™
The numbers alone can only get you so far. To make sure your financials are pointing you in the right direction, Escalon’s FinOps allocates time with a seasoned CFO who has the experience and insight necessary to make smart, informed decisions that will take your business to the next level. Done.
Forecasting and Planning
Our advisory team provides financial forecasting and financial planning insights to determine how your business decisions will affect growth in the short and long term.
Management Reporting
Our financial management consultants compile in-depth reports — key performance indicators, break-even points, unit economics, profitability — providing you with real-time financial reporting to make informed decisions.
Board Presentations
With our detailed financial projections in hand, you can present your business’s financial state to your board with confidence, letting your numbers tell the story.
Strategic Management Analysis
Our CFO-level financial analysis and financial health reporting tools give you the thought leadership and key performance indicators you need to identify whether your company is thriving or just surviving.
Budgeting
Our financial budgeting tools will help you accurately anticipate capital expenditures, cash flow and more so you can chart a course forward.
Financial Analysis
Our detailed financial analytics break down patterns and identify outliers. We then leverage big data, through predictive financial analyses, to find the trends that will help or hurt your business.
Expenses Done™
Expenses that are unorganized and unattended expenses can throw your whole operation out of whack. We help you make sure that your bills, expense reports and credit cards are monitored and taken care of in a professional and timely manner. Done.
Bills
We provide accurate and timely payments for all recurring and nonrecurring bills. We provide verification and approval of bills from suppliers, making sure to reconcile them with services/goods receipts and purchase orders.
Our bill-paying services comprise:
Collating all bills that come from service providers and clients.
Keeping a detailed schedule of all payables.
Paying bills manually (check) or electronically.
Storing all bills electronically for easy access.
Delivering client reports on a regular basis.
Providing each client with their own private and secured fax number and email address to send invoices.
Furnishing complete year-end financial reports with assets and liabilities.
Disputing unwarranted charges.
Expense Reporting
Our financial accounting services team manages your accounts payable entries, ensuring vendors and suppliers are paid on time. We also make sure your balance sheet stays on track and up to date.
Credit Cards
We check your credit card statements to verify all transactions made through your corporate card are accurately reflected on your balance sheet, keeping financials secure.
Revenue Done™
Without a steady inflow, your company can’t keep up the good work. We make sure invoicing, inflow and debts owed are paid to you in full. Done.
Invoices
Our financial accounting services team
manages your accounts receivable entries and invoicing so you know who needs to pay and when, so you get what you’re owed when it’s due.
Cash Application Cash Application & Planning
Our cash application specialists monitor your company’s cash inflow and maintain organized financial records. And we help you keep track of financial information with regular reports, which allow you to stay up to date on collection management if needed.
Collections
After verifying contact information and gathering details on a company that owes you money, we can effectively inform debt collectors on behalf of your business. Though we primarily call debtors to start, we also email, fax and mail a short demand letter, typically within one business day of the claim. Upon making contact, we try to find the reason behind the unpaid bills so we are better able to come up with a strategy to obtain payment, as quickly as possible.
Accounting Done™
Accounting is at the heart of any well-run company. We make sure your books are in balance and error-free by taking care of everything from bank reconciliation and invoicing to cash flow management and year-end reporting. We also seamlessly integrate into your preferred systems. All you have to do is review and approve. Done.
GL Management
Your general ledger is the keystone to generating and preparing accurate and timely financial records. Using monthly reconciliation and reviews of key accounts, as well as providing and implementing all recommended changes, we create an accurate account of your general ledgers. Our process often includes opening/closing accounting periods, recording accounting activities for the period’s end, accruals, adjustments and closeout. We then review and analyze the general ledger trial balance for abnormal and inappropriate balances or any discrepancies, at which point we take corrective actions. Our experts also analyze trial balance relationships and develop controls to ensure the integrity of financial statement data.
Reconciliation
Our accounting services team scours your bank statement to confirm that your transactions align with your balance sheet, so you can avoid discrepancies, errors or fraud.
Budget Versus Actual
We provide an accurate assessment of how a company’s spending and revenue generation meet the financial forecasting projections to identify areas over or under budget, whether you can or should hire additional employees, or even shine light on a gross profit margin that isn’t in line with expectations. The report is prepared monthly and reviewed with financial statements to determine areas of the business that are not meeting expectations and require further investigation.
Reporting
Stay informed on the health of your business with our detailed financial reporting, including income statements and balance sheets, so you’re aware of transactions, cash flow and reconciliations.
C3-Company Command Center™
It is easier to stay on top of things when you have an eye on everything. From finances to benefits, we provide you with a dashboard that aggregates all of your providers and software platforms, so you know what’s going on in your business at all times. Done.
Integrations
For decades, small- to mid-sized businesses without enterprise-level needs and resources had limited options for accounting software. But times have changed. There are now myriad software platform solutions that suit small- and mid-sized businesses without breaking the bank. We can work with your current platforms or help you source new ones perfect for your business. We then integrate them into our customizable Company Command Center that puts all of this critical information from across your business right at your fingertips.
Confident Compliance™
Escalon’s experienced accounting and bookkeeping teams have the expertise you need on federal regulations and statutory compliance requirements for complete confidence your records will be current and risk-free. Done.
Compliance Alerts
We provide you with tool alerts about upcoming requirements so you never miss mandatory business compliance filings. Submitting paperwork is as easy as clicking a button. And if you’ve already taken care of a filing, you can just as easily dismiss alerts.
Compliance Filings
We ensure filings are filed on time, accurately and conform with legal requirements.
Federal and State Sales Taxes
Our tax processing professionals oversee every aspect of your federal taxes, from preparing forms and schedules to unearthing the best deductions for your business to filing with ease. Our tax management professionals also ensure that your state taxes are filed with care and expertise, and that all forms and schedules comply with your state’s specific regulations. Our sales tax services help you understand state laws related to sales tax, which products are eligible, and how to implement sales tax so your business stays compliant with local regulations.
Sure Setup™
Keeping tabs on your company’s advisers and software providers can be onerous. We alleviate this pain before it starts. Our Sure Setup gathers everything into a single place and connects it to our proprietary platform, ensuring your people, our people and all of your systems are in total sync. Everything and everyone are now on the same page, making your job easier. Done.
Process Flows
Escalon is able to save you time and eliminate frustration by identifying and optimizing the flow of information among invoicing, accounts receivable, banks and other information sources. These flows are then connected to our proprietary technology platform that automates everything, increasing accuracy and reducing time that would otherwise be spent on such tasks.
Procedure Manuals
Once your workflows are up and running, we provide you with instructional information on what is being tracked and what needs to be done, and by whom.
Technology Setup
Once we have created an optimized collection of platforms and procedures, we work to make sure everything is working together, seamlessly, so your responsibilities are as minimal as possible.
Escalon allows us/allows me not to worry about the back office accounting function at the end of the day. We really see Escalon as an integral part of our business as part of our team honestly, sharing in the success of us, growing the business tremendously, and helping us all along the way.
Bill Brownie, CFO of Eargo
The best part working with Escalon is having a trusted partner… There’s a level of trust in the partnership I have that gives me a sense of safety & security. At the end of day, I trust they got my back.
Kabeer Mamnoon, Ready State Marketing CEO
We view Escalon as a true business strategic advisor and partner of ours… They’re always one or two steps ahead of us and provide us with right recommendations, resources, and support to allow us to scale quite quickly and effectively.
Gabriel Padva, Revenue Accelerator CEO
We really feel that there’s a roadmap for a future expansion with Escalon as well. So I would highly recommend Escalon to small businesses and startups.
James Lin, Better Chinese CEO
One of the things that I know has been very helpful is keeping the expenses low on the accounting and financial side of my startup, so that I can focus primarily my efforts on the development of the product, research/development, and clinical studies.
Mitch Levinson, Cerebrotech Medical Systems Co-Founder & CTO
My return on equity is really giving me that solid tax advice so I do make the transactions promptly and I lessen my tax burden. The benefit to me is saving more money in the bank.
Steve Herbert, Polaris Capital, Herbert Bay Area Properties, and Sincere Property Management President
I highly recommend any real estate company to call Escalon Tax Services. You’ll get wonderful service, kind attentive time from Pankaj Shah and his associates.
Janet Pepe Davis, Hometown Realty Broker & Owner
Well now that we have Escalon, our day to day operations are much easier for us to manage and much more efficient. And also, there’s far less mistakes, so it’s a big relief to all my board of directors.
Rory Faber, Kilgoris Project COO
The biggest solution and value that Escalon is bringing to Propel is helping us get time back. We couldn’t have closed our Series B without all of you.
Ray Hein, Propel CEO
Before Escalon we have to make many educated guesses to run our business – We didn’t have all the data at our fingertips. Now we have a sound basis of fact to use as we make decisions to run our business on a daily and strategic basis.
Gil Ben-Dov, Total Phase CEO
