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Moderna, Biogen, and Takeda recruit accounting and finance professionals out of Kendall Square at compensation levels most practices cannot match.
Fidelity, State Street, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals pull from the same pool. With one of the highest costs of living in the country, every Greater Boston offer competes against far deeper budgets, and every departure resets the recruiting timeline and the cost.
Massachusetts firms that move to Acculink reduce staffing costs by 60 to 70 percent without giving up quality, turnaround, or data security. Our 300+ professionals, CPAs, Enrolled Agents, Chartered Accountants, and Big-4 alumni, integrate into your workflow and work on your schedule.
The most common way Massachusetts firms work with Acculink is the dedicated staffing model: a professional who works exclusively for your firm, on your schedule, under your direct supervision.
You meet the professional before the engagement starts. You set the tasks and review the output.
Two engagement models are available: a dedicated full-time hire working exclusively for your firm, and a managed team for practices needing broader coverage across roles.
Build a dedicated offshore team matched to your firm’s work, from daily support to senior oversight.
Transaction entry, reconciliations, ledger upkeep.
Receivables, payables, and billing management.
General ledger, month-end close, statements.
Individual, corporate, and pass-through returns.
End-to-end payroll, deposits, quarterly filings.
Workpapers, tie-outs, and confirmation schedules.
Forecasting, KPI dashboards, board-ready packages.
What We Handle
Full-cycle accounting, reconciliations, journal entries, month-end close, financial statement preparation, and workpaper documentation, on your firm’s chart of accounts, software, and review process from day one.
Federal and Massachusetts state returns, including Form 1, Form 355, Form 3, and Form 63D-ELT. Individual (1040), business (1120, 1120-S, 1065), and pass-through schedules, prepared to your review-ready standard.
Payroll processing, payroll tax filings, W-2 and 1099 preparation, and employer reporting.
For Massachusetts clients: state income tax withholding, unemployment insurance filings, and Paid Family and Medical Leave contributions every cycle.
Workpaper preparation, trial balance tie-outs, variance analysis, confirmation letters, and schedule preparation for reviews and compilations, freeing your licensed CPAs for judgment and client communication, not document assembly.
Cash flow forecasting, budget-to-actual analysis, KPI dashboards, and management reporting for business-owner clients, built on your firm’s advisory model.
Massachusetts runs on knowledge industries, and the accounting behind them is among the most demanding in the country. Your team is built to handle it.
The Kendall Square and Seaport cluster, anchored by Moderna, Biogen, Takeda, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals, brings R&D expense classification, milestone revenue recognition, equity compensation, and multi-entity consolidation. Your team preps the workpapers; your licensed staff reviews.
Fidelity, State Street, and the Boston asset management sector generate high-earning individuals and complex investment partnerships: multi-state returns, investment income schedules, and high-volume 1099 reconciliation.
Harvard, MIT, and the Massachusetts university and nonprofit sector bring endowment and grant accounting, unrelated business income tax, and Form 990 preparation. Your team supports the schedules and workpapers your CPAs review.
Mass General Brigham and the academic medical networks anchor a healthcare economy of physician groups, research entities, and ancillary companies: revenue recognition, cost reporting, and multi-entity payroll.
The venture-backed technology ecosystem around Kendall Square and Boston brings early-stage work: equity compensation, research and development credits, and revenue recognition for companies scaling quickly.
For a Boston or Cambridge firm carrying two or three positions, the in-house versus offshore cost comparison is the most important number in the practice.
| Factor | In-House Hire (Massachusetts) | Acculink Offshore |
|---|---|---|
| Factor | In-House Hire (Massachusetts) | Acculink Offshore |
| Annual salary, staff accountant (Boston area) | $70,000–$85,000 | $18,000–$30,000 |
| Employer payroll taxes, benefits, and PFML | $14,000–$20,000 | None |
| Office overhead (Boston / Cambridge) | $7,000–$13,000 per year | None |
| Recruiting and placement fees | $8,000–$16,000 | None |
| Training | $2,000–$5,000 | Included |
| Time to productive | 3–5 months | 2–3 weeks |
| SOC 2 Type II coverage | Firm’s responsibility | Included |
| Turnover risk | High | Low |
Massachusetts firms carrying two staff accountants at Boston-area rates typically save $130,000 to $170,000 per year by moving to the Acculink model. The savings widen further when recruiting and turnover costs are included.
Your team already works the surtax, the corporate excise, and the pass-through election, on the right forms, from day one.
Prepared at the flat 5% plus the 4% surtax above the 2026 threshold of $1,107,750, up from $1,083,150 in 2025, which takes the top marginal rate to 9%.
Handled on Form 355 at 8% on net income plus $2.60 per $1,000 of tangible property or net worth, with the $456 minimum, apportionment, and estimated payments.
The elective excise, prepared on Form 63D-ELT at 5% at the entity level, with the member credit schedules for the refundable 90% credit.
Your dedicated team works these on the current forms and rates; the filing decisions and sign-off stay with your licensed CPAs.
Compliance
Massachusetts holds businesses to one of the strictest data security standards in the country. Acculink operates inside every framework that applies to your firm.
Written client consent is required before tax return information goes to a preparer outside the United States, even when the provider works as your own supervised staff (26 CFR 301.7216-2(c)(2)). Your firm retains full responsibility for client data and output review.
The WISP rule binds your firm to contract capable third-party providers (Section 17.03) and to encrypt personal information across public networks and on portable devices (Section 17.04). Acculink’s SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2013 certifications and contractual data-protection terms are the safeguard it expects you to verify.
Chapter 93H requires notice to the Attorney General, the Office of Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation, and affected residents after a breach, with at least 18 months of free credit monitoring where Social Security numbers are involved. Acculink’s certified environment supports your obligations under it.
Only a licensed CPA or CPA firm may issue reports on financial statements; non-licensed staff work under a supervising licensee. Acculink professionals work under your licensed CPAs’ supervision, and your firm signs off on all work product.
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Massachusetts pairs a demanding labor market with one of the strictest data security standards in the country. Acculink gives your firm experienced, certified accounting staff at 60 to 70 percent below an in-house hire in Boston or Cambridge. Start with a 40-hour free trial. No setup fee. No lock-in. If the engagement does not meet your standard within the trial, you walk away.
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