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• Serving Food and Beverage Companies
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J.H. Cohn provides accounting, tax, and business consulting services to help food and beverage clients achieve their business and financial objectives. Our Food & Beverage Industry Practice:

• Provides high quality attest services with in-depth knowledge of technical reporting requirements unique to the industry—issues such as accruals for rebates and coupons. As a result, food and beverage companies receive the financial statement package they need to secure bank and equity financing.

• Minimizes clients’ tax burden through proactive tax planning, an in-depth knowledge of tax code as it applies to food and beverage companies, and a staunch reputation for defending client tax positions.

• Applies credits and deductions such as R&D tax credits and Sec. 199 deductions.

• Initiates cost-segregation studies to accelerate depreciation where applicable.

• Helps maintain compliance on state and local tax issues to avoid penalties and potentially generate refunds as states get more aggressive in capturing tax revenues.

• Offers international tax services, including advice on the tax implications of strategic sourcing and distribution models, identification of transfer pricing risks, and compliance with documentation requirements.

• Affords access to the world's 10th largest provider of accounting, tax, and business consulting services, with experience serving the food and beverage industry. Our network includes affiliates in nearly all of the United States’ major trading and sourcing partners.

• Helps management address specific operational and management challenges, including:
  • Business succession
  • Coping with employee benefit costs
  • Global supply chain management
  • Increasing inventory turns
  • Minimizing product spoilage and breakage
  • Reducing insurance costs
  • Technology implementation (ERP, WMS, CRM)

• Creates lean management programs to assist clients in eliminating waste, driving efficiencies, and improving profitability

• Builds management dashboards to help clients identify problems impacting key performance indicators and improve the accuracy and timeliness of strategic decision-making

• Helps to achieve Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and provides assistance in developing effective internal controls to prepare the company to go public or for sale

• Possesses an insider’s perspective to industry challenges and trends gleaned through our connections to industry trade associations, including:
  Food Industry Alliance of New York State
  GMA
  Natural Products Expo East
  National Association for the Specialty Food Trade
  New Jersey Food Processors Association
  Rutgers Food Innovation Center