Business Continuity Planning
No matter how your business grows or which direction it takes, you can count on the ATLAS to continue to provide a high level of service and expertise as your needs, scope and focus evolve. Our business continuity services cover the entire spectrum of needs, such as:
Start-Up Services
- Choice of business entity, including analysis of tax ramifications, legal protections and employee benefits options
- Complete and submit federal and state applications for identification numbers
- Apply for business license
- Registration for state income tax and sales tax withholding and remittance
- Accounting and database software selection, customization and implementation
- Staff Training
Business Plans
- Provide a clear, precise and meaningful sense of direction for your company for a specified period of time
- Plans can be prepared for both internal and external purposes
- Secure funding and lines of credit
- Incorporate performance measurement and key employee motivation
- Present information effectively to outside parties
- Business Valuations / M&A
Transition planning
- Secured lending and advisory services
- Stakeholder requirements, including buy-sell agreements, forecasting, feasibility analysis and strategic planning
- Tax analysis and planning, including estate planning, employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs), gift and estate taxes, purchase price allocation.
Litigation Support
- Bankruptcy planning, asset management and disposition
- Expert witness testimony
- Problem loan resolution
- Insolvency accounting
- Damage claims
- Fraud and embezzlement
- Marital dissolution
Special Needs
- Crisis management for business in trouble
- Appraisals and auctions
- Turnarounds and workouts
- Orderly liquidation of assets
- Problem loan resolution and workout resource for lending institutions