Accounting & Tax Services in Greenville, NC
Bookkeeping, tax preparation, payroll and church accounting for Greenville businesses, churches, nonprofits, and individuals, from our office on East Fire Tower Road.
- More than 30 years of experience
- Ramsey Trusted Tax Pro
- Greenville, NC
- Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm
An accounting firm for Greenville
Greenville is the seat of Pitt County and its most populous city, with 87,521 people counted in the 2020 census. East Carolina University sits here, along with ECU Health Medical Center and the Brody School of Medicine that teaches inside it. Pitt Community College is close by, and the Tar River runs along the edge of town. Our office is on East Fire Tower Road in 27858, so Greenville is home base for us.
Work in this city gathers around two anchors, the hospital system and the university. Around them sit the businesses that keep the place running: medical practices and their suppliers, contractors putting up housing, restaurants and shops in Uptown, and the manufacturing, pharmaceutical and food and beverage plants on the outskirts. Owners here tend to be busy in a way that pushes bookkeeping to Sunday night.
Elite Accounting Services is an owner-run accounting firm right here in town. Mike Hayes has more than 30 years behind him and is a Ramsey Trusted Tax Pro. We keep the ledger current, file the returns, run payroll, and read the letter when the IRS sends one. If you are in Greenville you can sit across a desk from us, and everything also works through the client portal when you would rather send documents from the truck.
Bookkeeping in Greenville
A Greenville contractor framing houses out past Fire Tower Road needs job costing that tells the truth about each job, and a shop in Uptown needs sales tax filed on time. We cover both. Our bookkeeping includes the general ledger, accounts payable and receivable, bank and credit card reconciliations, sales tax reporting and filings, and QuickBooks setup or cleanup. Financial reports come monthly, quarterly or yearly, whichever fits how you make decisions.
More on BookkeepingTax Services in Greenville
Plenty of households in Greenville have a paycheck from the university or the hospital on one side and a business on the other. That mix makes a return more complicated than it looks. We prepare business returns and individual returns for every filing situation, keep quarterly estimated payments on schedule, and handle IRS correspondence when it arrives. Tax planning and year-end projections happen before December, not in April.
More on Tax ServicesPayroll in Greenville
A dental practice with six employees and a restaurant with twenty hourly staff run payroll very differently, and both are common here. We do full-service payroll processing, direct deposit and paystubs, new hire reporting, payroll tax filing and payments, and W-2 and 1099 preparation at year end. If a workers compensation audit comes back with questions, we help you answer them. QuickBooks payroll setup and support is part of the service.
More on Payroll ServicesChurch Accounting in Greenville
Greenville churches carry every duty an employer carries, plus a few of their own. Giving has to be tracked, designated funds have to stay separate from the general fund, and the board needs reports it can read without an accounting degree. We apply the same bookkeeping, payroll and tax work to a church that we apply to a business. Being in town means a treasurer can hand off records without mailing anything.
More on Church AccountingWorking around the hospital and the university
Being the home city changes what we see most. A great deal of Greenville business sits one step away from ECU Health or East Carolina University: medical practices and the suppliers who serve them, contractors putting up housing, restaurants and shops whose year follows the academic calendar rather than the fiscal one.
That second point matters more than owners expect. A business whose revenue tracks the university term has an uneven year by design, and averaging it into twelve equal months hides both the strong stretch and the thin one. We would rather build the reporting around the shape your year actually has, because that is the version that tells you whether a slow August is normal or a problem.
When the Tar River comes up
Storm season is a bookkeeping event in this part of the state, not only a weather one. A business that closes for several days has a gap in its revenue that has to be explained later. Insurance money and relief funds land in the account and need to be recorded correctly rather than treated as ordinary income. And filings that were due in the middle of the cleanup slide, because nobody is thinking about a deadline while they are pulling up flooring.
Records are the other half. Low ground near the river stays saturated well after the sky clears, and a business that kept its paper in a back room or a low storage unit can lose a year of it. Rebuilding that from bank and card statements is routine work for us, and it goes faster the sooner it starts.
Across a desk on East Fire Tower Road, or through the portal
Our office is on East Fire Tower Road in 27858, so for Greenville businesses dropping off a box of receipts is not an errand. Some owners want exactly that, and want to sit across a desk from the person doing the work.
Others would rather never come in and would like to upload something at nine at night. Both are on the table, and neither is the cheaper or lesser version. Mike Hayes is a Ramsey Trusted Tax Pro with more than 30 years in this work, and whichever way you prefer to deal with us, that is who is handling it.
Serving Greenville
You run your business. We will handle the rest.
- Books reconciled every month, with reports you can read
- Tax returns prepared and filed in house, and IRS letters handled
- Payroll processed, filed and paid on schedule
- Serving Greenville in person and through a secure client portal
Greenville accounting questions
Where is your Greenville office?
We are at 2120 E Fire Tower Rd, Suite 107 - 1074, Greenville, NC 27858. Hours are Monday to Friday, 8am to 5pm. Call (252) 916-3278 or book a free consultation online and we will find a time.
Do I have to come to the office to work with you?
No. Greenville clients are welcome to come in, and plenty of people prefer to send everything through the secure client portal and talk by phone. We work the same way with owners across the country.
Can you clean up a QuickBooks file that got away from us?
Yes. QuickBooks setup, cleanup and support is part of our bookkeeping work. We go through the file, correct what is wrong, reconcile the accounts, and then keep it current so it does not drift again.
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