Website: gco-cpa.com
Phone: (305) 747-7285
Gutierrez Madariaga CPA, P.A. is a certified public accounting firm serving businesses in the public and private sectors. The firm describes itself as a local practice with offices in Miami Lakes and Coral Gables, Florida, and lists Hialeah among the areas its services reach. According to the firm, it has more than twenty years of experience offering bookkeeping and accounting, tax preparation, and audits, reviews, and compilations of financial statements.
Services
The firm offers accounting and bookkeeping services that include monthly data entry into a client’s QuickBooks file, account mapping to appropriate income and expense accounts, reconciliation of bank and credit accounts, payroll management, and year-end reporting. Its accounting and bookkeeping department also handles payroll and sales tax compliance, including the completion of forms such as 941s, 940s, RT6s, 1099s, W-3s, and W-2s, and the firm references outsourced CFO services within this department.
Beyond bookkeeping, the firm provides audits, reviews, and compilations of financial statements; agreed-upon procedures; consulting services; forensic accounting; taxation; employee benefit plan audits; QuickBooks consulting; Step Up For Students agreed-upon procedures; and The Children’s Trust program-specific audit services. The firm states that its audit practice has been subject to the AICPA’s mandatory peer review every three years and has received unqualified opinions on all occasions.
Who They Serve
The firm states that it offers accounting, audit, and tax services to domestic and international corporations, individuals, non-profit organizations, restaurants, attorneys, condo associations, mortgage lenders, schools and daycares, distribution and manufacturing companies, and 401k and 403b employee benefit plans. Listed industry specializations include construction, homeowners associations, not-for-profit organizations, schools, restaurants, medical and dental practices, mortgage brokers, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, gasoline businesses, and 401k and 403b audits. For Hialeah-area trades and contractors, the firm references construction bookkeeping and construction accounting among its focus areas, along with small business bookkeeping and accounting.
Approach & Tools
The firm uses QuickBooks as a central accounting platform and offers QuickBooks consulting that covers installation, set-up, training, custom reports, and ongoing support. It states that proper installation and a chart of accounts structured to a client’s industry are important to benefiting from the software. For audit engagements, the firm describes a process organized into planning, fieldwork, and reporting and presentation stages, and it notes that it conducts a risk assessment covering strategic, operational, compliance, fraud, financial statement, market, and credit risk. The firm says it tailors audit presentations so they are understandable to management or board members who may not be trained in accounting or finance.
The firm’s stated philosophy emphasizes quality, service, and ethics, and a commitment to timely work regardless of engagement size. It offers a free initial consultation and notes that it aims to help clients identify opportunities to improve cash flow, accurately record transactions, and streamline reporting and filing processes. Its taxation department covers tax preparation, consulting, and compliance for individuals, corporations, S corporations, partnerships, limited liability companies, trusts and estates, and not-for-profit entities, and the firm describes experience with domestic and international tax matters, including Form 990 compliance for tax-exempt organizations.
The firm also offers specialized reporting for Florida education programs. It provides Step Up For Students agreed-upon procedures reports to schools and daycares in South Florida, noting that schools receiving more than $250,000 in Step Up For Students scholarship funds are required to submit such a report from an independent accountant. The firm states that it is included in The Children’s Trust vendor pool of CPAs and prepares program-specific audit reports for organizations contracted with that program.
Operating from nearby Miami Lakes and Coral Gables, Gutierrez Madariaga CPA, P.A. presents itself as a Miami-Dade firm whose accounting, bookkeeping, tax, and audit services extend to the Hialeah area.