| Scope of Services | Services Description |
| Federal Tax Return | The specific scope and terms of this service will be performed as described in your specific engagement letter. |
| State Tax Return(s) | The specific scope and terms of this service will be performed as described in your specific engagement letter and is limited to filings for the states specifically listed in your engagement letter. |
| Tax Extensions (Federal and State) | This service includes the filing of federal and/or state tax return extensions for the specific year we are preparing the returns. |
| Our Promise | We stand behind our services. Our goal is to provide services that you want, at an agreed upon price and terms. We can’t guarantee outcomes, but if you are not completely satisfied with the client service we provided, let us know and tell us how you think that should be reflected in the price you pay. |
| Quarterly Safe Harbor Estimates | This service includes tax calculation based on your prior year tax liability. The purpose of this service is for you to avoid tax penalties and interest. |
| Quarterly Tax Projections | This service includes quarterly tax projection based on your current year taxable income and information provided to us for that specific quarter. You may choose to make the payments based on the quarterly tax projections. |
| Year End Tax Projection | This service includes tax liability projection performed at the end of the year to estimate your tax obligations based on the information provided by you. You may choose to make the payments based on the tax projections. |
| IRS and State Notices Review and Response | This service includes response to IRS notices and routine inquiries regarding the tax returns prepared by us for that year. |
| IRS & State Examination | This service includes our response to the IRS formal examination requests for the tax returns prepared by us for that year. |
| IRS and State Examination Appeal | This service includes support by us for your counsel during the examination appeal process, such as providing necessary supporting documents, helping with the analysis, producing records, and other assistance as may be reasonably required. This is not legal advice and you should retain legal counsel to represent you before the IRS. |
| Unlimited Calls | Unlimited Calls means unlimited calls by you during Armanino business hours which is 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Pacific time Monday through Friday, excluding Armanino-observed holidays. |
| Annual Meeting with Client | We will meet with you once during the services period, either at our offices or by a video conference at your choosing. |
| Estate Plan Review | This service includes review of the existing estate plan and recommendations for improvements to the existing plan. This is not legal advice. |
| Annual Review of Insurance Coverages | This service includes, with the assistance of 3rd party experts, review of your existing insurance coverage and recommendations for improvements to those existing insurance coverages. This is not legal advice. |
| Amended K-1s | This service includes amending the previously filed tax returns and K-1’s for investor changes such as name change, ID change, address change and/or entity type. This amendment would correct previously filed tax returns and K-1’s which contained incorrect investor information. |
| PPM Tax Language Review | This is a review of your private placement memorandum to ensure compliance with the applicable tax rules and advise on any amendments needed. |
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Assessment Services: |
Our Assessment Services include a holistic review of a client’s current business system, identifying gaps between the goals and objectives, and providing written recommendations. Typical services consist of up to 6 hours of workshops/interviews, up to 6 hours of research and report preparation, and a 2-hour executive presentation. |
| Technology Assessment | This service includes diagnostic analysis of your current ecosystem to help you increase usability of platforms, eliminate manual processes, and enable scalability to position your business for growth. |
| FP&A / Budgeting Assessment | This service includes diagnostic analysis of your current budgeting and planning ecosystem to help eliminate manual processes and enable scalability to position your business for growth. |
| Operational Assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis to help finance and operations teams minimize time spent on low-value processes and increase time spent on strategic decision-making and growth activities to enable business leaders to accurately evaluate the full spectrum of business processes, applications and your organization with a holistic lens. |
| Financial Close Assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis to assist with quarter or yearend financial close services by identifying processes that will save time and increase productivity. |
| Procure-to-Pay (P2P) Assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis to assist you to evaluate your existing procure-to-pay process and recommend both technology and business process improvements to improve your procurement outcomes. |
| Cyber Security assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis of your existing technology infrastructure and recommendations to help you combat the growing threat of cyberattack and safeguard your reputation, digital assets and customer data. We will review your technology environment against our cyber security framework at a high level, to give you an understanding of your cyber-related risk exposure. |
| Internal Controls and Risk Assessment | This service includes an analysis of your existing internal controls in key risk areas and recommendations to help you combat the threat of fraud, misappropriation of assets, cyberattack and safeguard your reputation, assets and customer data. We review your internal environment against our proprietary framework at a high level, to give you an understanding of your key risk exposure. |
| Stock option and Equity Compliance Assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis of your existing stock option and equity program procedures. We will provide recommendations on how to improve existing processes, technology and avoid common pitfalls in managing your employee stock option and equity program. The service consists of an interview with key stakeholders of your equity program, reviewing your equity administration system, and documenting our findings and suggestions, and debriefing those findings with you. |
| HR Compliance Assessment | This service includes a diagnostic analysis of your HR compliance and recommendations on any action that needs to be taken to avoid common pitfalls. |
| 409A Valuation Healthcheck | We will provide a review of your latest 409A analysis. This service will include a review of key assumptions and assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the analysis. This service includes a diagnostic analysis to determine if a new 409A valuation is needed, as well as some benchmarking of companies in a similar stage and/or industry based on our internal data. |