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Google, Apple, Salesforce, and hundreds of venture-backed startups set pay regional practices cannot match.
Studios, streaming companies, and talent agencies pull accounting staff from Century City, Beverly Hills, and Woodland Hills practices continuously.
The biotech cluster in Sorrento Valley, La Jolla, and Torrey Pines recruits at a scale most CPA practices cannot reach.
California firms that move to Acculink cut staffing costs by 60 to 70 percent, without giving up quality, turnaround, or data security. Our 300+ professionals integrate into your existing workflow and operate on your schedule.
The most common way California firms work with Acculink is the dedicated staffing model: one professional, accountant, bookkeeper, tax preparer, or payroll expert, who works only for your firm, on your schedule, under your supervision.
Each hire is matched to your return volume, bookkeeping complexity, software, and client industries. You meet the professional before the engagement starts, set the tasks, and review the output.
CA PTE estimates, non-conformity workpapers, and equity compensation tracking for venture-backed clients are recurring, layered work, and a dedicated professional carries client knowledge forward quarter to quarter.
Build a dedicated offshore team matched to your work, from entry-level support to senior oversight.
Transaction entry, reconciliations, ledger upkeep.
Receivables, payables, and billing management.
QBO and Desktop bookkeeping and cleanup.
Xero bookkeeping, reconciliations, reporting.
General ledger, month-end close, statements.
1040, 1120, 1120S, 1065, 1041 prep and review.
Workpapers for financial, 401(k), and EBP audits.
End-to-end payroll, deposits, quarterly filings.
Oversees deliverables, coordinates with your team.
Budgeting, forecasting, board-ready reporting.
What We Handle
Transaction entry, bank and credit card reconciliations, AR and AP, general ledger, month-end and year-end close, and financial statements.
Across QuickBooks Online, Desktop, Xero, and Sage, no migrations, no software changes.
Individual (1040), C-corp (1120), S-corp (1120S), LLC/LLP/partnership (1065), and trust (1041) returns, plus review and planning.
California PTE, non-conformity, LLC fee, and S-corp franchise tax workpapers run alongside federal filings, staged for your CPAs (detailed below).
End-to-end payroll: calculations, federal and state deposits, quarterly 941 filings, and California EDD filings (DE 9 and DE 9C).
CA SDI and ETT withholding, SUI tracking, W-2 and 1099 prep, garnishments, and year-end close.
Financial audit workpapers, 401(k) audit, and EBP audit documentation.
Prepared to your standards and ready for your CPAs before client delivery.
Budgeting, multi-year forecasting, cash flow projections, KPI dashboards, and board-ready reporting for clients who need strategic support alongside compliance.
A generic offshore team has not built equity comp workpapers for venture-backed firms, loan-out S-corp returns for entertainment clients, or R&D tracking for clinical-stage biotechs. We match professionals to your clients’ industries.
Bookkeeping, reporting, and workpapers for software, SaaS, hardware, and VC-backed startups: cap table accounting, 409A valuation support, R&D tax credit workpapers (including the California R&E credit under RTC §23609), multi-state nexus, and equity compensation across ISO and NSO grants.
Bookkeeping and workpapers for production companies, studios, music publishers, talent agencies, and the loan-out corporations that structure entertainment income, including royalty and residual income, film-investment passive activity, and the interaction between loan-out S-corp income and California’s 1.5 percent entity-level franchise tax on S-corporations.
Financial reporting, R&D expense documentation, grant tracking, and workpapers for clinical-stage biotechs, contract research organizations (CROs), and medical device companies.
Property accounting, rental income, depreciation schedules, 1031 exchange documentation, and investor-facing reporting, including the interaction between federal passive activity rules and California’s own depreciation treatment.
Farm accounting, commodity income tracking, crop insurance proceeds, Subchapter T cooperative returns, and multi-entity farm structures for Central Valley and coastal agricultural businesses.
Most partners know the salary for an accounting hire; fewer have run the true cost. In California, employer-side FICA, SUI, SDI, ETT, benefits, retirement matching, paid leave, and office overhead add 30 to 40 percent on top of base pay, higher still in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
| In-House Accounting Staff in California | With Acculink CPA | |
|---|---|---|
| In-House Accounting Staff in California | With Acculink CPA | |
| Direct Cost | Market-rate salary, among the highest in the US | $8–$35/hr, all-inclusive |
| Employer Overhead | Payroll taxes, SUI, SDI, ETT, benefits, and office overhead on top | Included in the hourly rate |
| True Annual Cost | Substantially more than the salary figure | No hidden additions |
| Onboarding Timeline | 4–8 weeks minimum (recruiting, interviews, training) | 5–10 business days |
| Data Security | Depends on your firm’s own infrastructure | SOC 2 Type II Certified |
| Trial Period | None | 40 hours free |
| Exit Terms | Notice period, potential severance | No lock-in, no penalties |
| CA-Specific Tax Work | Separate hire needed, or work sent out | CA PTE, LLC fee, CA non-conformity, and S-corp franchise tax workpapers included |
For a Bay Area or Los Angeles firm carrying two or three accounting positions, outsourced accounting justifies the shift within the first quarter.
California runs a parallel tax system through the Franchise Tax Board. Your team already works in it, on the right FTB forms, from day one.
Handled on FTB Form 3804, with the June 15 estimate (the greater of 50% of prior-year PTE tax or $1,000) on FTB Form 3893 and the PTE credit on each owner’s Form 540, extended through 2030 under SB 132.
California-specific workpapers for the §199A QBI addback, disallowed bonus depreciation, the separate §163(j) calculation, and R&E kept fully deductible despite federal §174.
We prepare the $800 annual minimum franchise tax and the graduated gross-receipts fee, $900 ($250,000–$499,999), $2,500 ($500,000–$999,999), $6,000 ($1,000,000–$4,999,999), and $11,790 ($5,000,000 or more), with the June 15 estimate on Form 3536 once California receipts pass $250,000.
Prepared on Form 100S alongside the federal 1120S, the greater of the 1.5% franchise tax on California net income or the $800 minimum.
Your dedicated team works these on the current forms and rates; the filing decisions and sign-off stay with your licensed CPAs.
Compliance
California adds disclosure and privacy duties beyond most states. Acculink operates inside each one.
Under IRC §7216 and Treas. Reg. §301.7216-2, written client consent is required before return information goes to a provider outside the US, even your own supervised staff (26 CFR 301.7216-2(c)(2)), with the added 1040-series language of Revenue Procedure 2013-14. Acculink supplies the ready-to-use consent templates at onboarding.
California Business and Professions Code §5063.3 and 16 CCR §54.1 require engagement-letter consent before confidential client information leaves the US, separate from and in addition to §7216. Acculink supplies the engagement-letter disclosure language alongside the §7216 consent templates.
Effective January 1, 2023, the CPRA reaches businesses with over $25 million in annual gross revenue, 100,000-plus California consumers or households, or 50% or more of annual revenue from selling or sharing personal information; GLBA-covered financial data is exempt at the data level. Acculink’s SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2013 audited infrastructure already exceeds it.
The California Board of Accountancy, a division of the California Department of Consumer Affairs, permits offshore support staff where the licensed firm keeps supervisory responsibility and holds client consent under BPC §5063.3 and IRS §7216. Acculink works inside that line: your CPAs approve every deliverable, and our staff do not file returns, contact clients, or represent your firm.
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Staffing gaps in accounting do not resolve on their own. Acculink firms are typically onboarded and delivering within 5 to 10 business days, and the first 40 hours cost nothing.
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