Manufacturing & Distribution

Success requires more than just hard work.  It takes creativity, vision and ingenuity – the creativity to address today’s problems, the vision to predict tomorrow’s opportunities and the ingenuity to find the right solutions for your business. 

Are you:

• Struggling to improve your bottom line?
• In need of accurate forecasts and projections for important financial decisions?
• Buying, selling or transitioning ownership of a business?
• Utilizing all of the tax credits for which you qualify?
• Looking for ways to improve your cash flow?

Our Manufacturing and Wholesale Distribution Practice is our largest industry team.  When you have our team working for you, you get direct access to the entire arsenal of Battelle & Battelle LLP resources.  Through our decades of service to the manufacturing and distribution industries, we have developed substantial industry knowledge, which we actively share with clients through publications, seminars and e-newsletters.

It is important to work with professionals who understand the complexities of the manufacturing and distribution industries – both their strengths and their challenges.  We leverage our depth of experience, insightful analysis of processes and insider industry knowledge to help you assemble the best possible financial solutions for your business.  In addition to being able to handle your domestic issues, we have extensive experience in dealing with international issues.  We work with many U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies, including assistance with U.S. tax returns for expatriates. 

In addition to traditional audit/accounting and tax compliance services, our industry experts provide specialized services in these areas:

Tax Credits and Incentives, including:

• Research and development tax incentive studies
• Domestic manufacturing deduction
• Energy and alternative fuel tax incentives
• State & local business expansion incentives
• Green building tax incentives

International expertise
Battelle & Battelle LLP has designed our services to help companies of all sizes compete and succeed in the international marketplace.  Our goal is to provide the high level of security and confidence that all companies seek in the financial management of their foreign operations.

We have extensive experience in dealing with international issues.  We work with many U.S. subsidiaries of foreign-owned companies, including assistance with U.S. tax returns for ex-patriots.  The following list contains a few of those countries: Japan, Italy, England, Germany, France, Scotland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.  In addition, many of our clients have entered the international market place and we have worked with them to set up and maintain operations in such countries as China, Mexico, Canada, Australia and Spain, besides those countries previously mentioned.

Information Technology Risk/Fraud Services
Is your business at risk for fraud?  How secure is your IT system?  How secure is your data?  Our specialists in the area of IT Risk and Fraud/Forensic Accounting can help you answer these questions and provide a solution, should that be necessary.  Areas of expertise include:

• Business continuity planning
• Third-party assurance services
• Risk assurance
• IT security and control assurance/assessment
• Fraud detection and deterrent services

Specialized consulting, including:

• Internal controls
• Sarbanes-Oxley compliance
• Business risk assessment
• Business valuation
• Merger/Acquisition: Tax implications analysis
• Capital financing advice
• Cash flow management

For additional information about our Manufacturing & Distribution Practice Group, contact Justin D. Stallard, Tax Partner.