National tax law

Despite the authoritativeness principle, there is room for manoeuvre in the design of tax and commercial balance sheets. By making targeted use of this room for manoeuvre, SKS Steuerberatung achieves a higher profit statement in the commercial balance sheet than in the tax balance sheet, which leads to a more positive image for investors, lenders or stakeholders.

With SKS Steuerberatung you receive external business consulting at the highest level. From conceptual consulting, financial planning such as profitability planning or liquidity planning to the determination of company values and the preparation of business plans. SKS Steuerberatung supports you in the management of your company with comprehensive business analyses of all business processes and issues as well as organisational and entrepreneurial decisions.

Establishing and Developing Reporting and Information Systems

SKS Steuerberatung implements and develops the optimal reporting and information system for your company. The ease of use and numerous analysis options give you a decisive information advantage for strategic and operational decisions for your company..

Financial Planning, Profitability Planning and Liquidity Planning

SKS Steuerberatung will carry out cost accounting and profitability calculations for you as well as look after financial restructuring, devise models for splitting operations, business plans and will provide you with strategy counselling such as liquidity, financing and investment planning.

Consulting on Business Plans

SKS Steuerberatung provides support for you as you establish your business plans with respect to new business start-up grants, development (promotion) and guarantor banks, business partners, investors and with respect to your corporate guidelines. Avoid business plan templates and create a precise, individual and effective business plan with SKS Steuerberatung.

Performance Improvement Analyses

We create strategies for the permanent improvement of your company’s results. We eliminate strategic shortcomings, optimise positive variables and tap the full potential for improvement. A comprehensive performance improvement analysis by SKS Steuerberatung can give you an overview of the current situation and the proposed solutions for improvement.

Credit-Worthiness Tests

SKS Steuerberatung will carry out a risk assessment analysis of credit that is planned, has been applied for or granted. We advise you with the elements of credit-worthiness tests, such as management evaluations, future-oriented analyses of the branch situation, evaluation of the asset situation, business strategies for plausibility and analyse previous annual and interim financial statements for positive and negative changes.

SKS Steuerberatung will create a business plan for you and help you define your products, services and ways to communicate with your clients or customers. We set up market analyses and give you professional assessments of risks and opportunities. SKS Steuerberatung provides help and promotes start-up businesses by looking after questions relating to taxation, trade law and social security legislation as well as with finding and attracting funding. We support you with financing issues and negotiations with banks and investors. SKS Steuerberatung takes care of the communication and disputes with organisations (IHK-Chamber of Industry and Commerce, Chamber of Trades and Crafts, Berufsgenossenschaft - professional association/German Social Accident Insurance Institution, etc.) and authorities (regulatory agencies, finance authority, public health department, etc.). SKS Steuerberatung also assists you with choosing private provision for accidents, unforeseen events and for old age. With SKS Steuerberatung you will be get an overview of the specific maturity periods that are best suited for specific external funding, for which of the over 1,200 subsidy programmes and loans available in the Federal Republic of Germany or the numerous funding programmes of the EU you are eligible in your region and what the tax implications will be for investment and your company. We are familiar with the demands of investors, partners and banks. No matter whether you want a traditional bank loan, are looking for silent partners, want to set up an employee profit-sharing scheme or are considering to realise other financing options such as profit participation certificates, convertible bonds or a bond with warrant, SKS Steuerberatung will provide you with start-up advice with the utmost competence.

Conducting Appeal Proceedings, and Providing 
Legal Representation in Fiscal Courts and the Federal Fiscal Court

SKS Steuerberatung supports you from appeals against tax assessment notices to claims in the fiscal court. We will negotiate on your behalf with officials performing tax investigations and represent you in prosecutions for tax offences and in issues with the tax authority. On behalf of our SKS clients, we conduct appeals proceedings, file claims in the fiscal courts and the Federal Fiscal Court as well as proceedings for interim legal protection in matters of urgency.

Supervision of Tax Audits

The fiscal challenges confronting company management are becoming increasingly more substantial. Knowledgeable business consulting includes perfect tax consulting so that you can be prevented from falling into one of the expensive traps set by the auditor during company audits. SKS Steuerberatung has extensive experience in this field and can therefore offer the best audit and consulting quality.

The rapidly changing economic and fiscal landscape challenges the entrepreneur to make flexible decisions. Corporate restructuring is one of the strategic concepts encountered by business management. SKS Steuerberatung supports and advises you in finding the right tax and business related decisions. Avoid tax traps and take advantage of the existing support options. Even with the settlement of ownership succession or a corporate sale you can profit from the professional expertise of SKS Steuerberatung.

The transfer of assets to the next generation is increasingly becoming a macroeconomic issue. SKS Steuerberatung will advise you on the numerous structuring options, options and implications related to private inheritances and gifts, so that your family is well provided for.

Accounting

SKS Steuerberatung not only takes on your financial and payroll accounting, but also supports you with professional expertise when it comes to the continuous recording of all your business transactions as well as the development of the various business management areas by means of detailed analyses.The monthly maintaining of asset accounting and exact accrual of year-to-year or month-to-month expenses, such as for example, changes in inventory, will provide you with an exact image of your company it is also a positive signal for your bank.

Ongoing Financial and Wage Accounting (EDP-supported)

With our EDP-supported collection and processing of their data, our SKS clients receive timely notifications with respect to tax regulations and provisions as well as for tax planning. Payroll accounting is an important and highly sensitive area for a company because errors can have a negative impact on the company and the employee. Our SKS clients receive concepts and solutions to optimise their financial and payroll accounting..

Fixed Assets Accounting

Within the concept of operational accounting, fixed assets accounting helps to identify key values for cost accounting and calculation. It provides information as to whether certain assets are underinsured or overinsured. SKS Steuerberatung recommends that an asset analysis be performed not only for corporations, but also for sole proprietorships and partnerships.

Cost Accounting and Results Accounts

The figures of your cost and results accounting provide you with information regarding the business and management situation, the profitability of projects, construction sites, departments or subsidiaries and also the possibilities of optimising the cost factors. Personnel expenditures are considered to be the fundamental expenditures of a company or business and an employee effectiveness analysis will show you the strengths and weaknesses in your staff.

Preparation of VAT, Payroll Tax and Social Security Returns

SKS Steuerberatung will prepare your monthly or quarterly returns and take into account the current fiscal developments. We also advise you with respect to matters relating to tax and social security legislation when it comes to full or part-time as well as casual or temporary employees and trainees or student apprentices.

Establishment and Maintenance of Internal Accounting Systems

Simplicity of use, secure data storage, flexibility, processing speed and adaptability are prerequisites for a perfectly functioning system. Analyses and reports of the financial accounting figures influence the decision-making process for entrepreneurial activities. They enable you to stay informed and up to date about all areas of operation.

Accounting Checks and Balances

We monitor and analyse your internal bookkeeping and accounting and provide you with ideas and suggestions for continuous improvement and the designing of a precise and healthy set of figures.