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Professionals in Bergen, Essex, Morris, and Hudson counties commute to Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Wall Street practices for a salary premium most CPA firms cannot match.
Merck, Johnson & Johnson, and the Route 1 life sciences corridor recruit with pay most practices cannot reach.
Philadelphia-area employers across the Delaware pull talent from Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester county practices the other way.
New Jersey firms that move to outsourced accounting with Acculink reduce 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 New Jersey firms work with Acculink is the dedicated staffing model: one professional, accountant, tax preparer, bookkeeper, or payroll expert, who works only for your firm, in your workflow, under your supervision. You can also hire a dedicated team.
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.
NJ GIT computed separately from federal, BAIT workpapers with quarterly payment tracking, CBT returns with addbacks, and inheritance-tax workpapers: in a typical NJ firm this runs across most of the roster. A dedicated professional who knows each client’s filing history, BAIT election status, and estate situation carries that context forward.
Prefer to hand off defined-scope work without managing staff? Acculink’s project-based model delivers end-to-end. See engagement models for a full comparison.
Compare Engagement ModelsBuild 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/AP, general ledger, month-end and year-end close, and financial statements.
Across QuickBooks Online, QuickBooks Desktop, Xero, and Sage, no migrations, no software changes.
Individual (1040), C-corp (1120), S-corp (1120S), partnership (1065), and trust (1041) returns, plus review and planning.
For New Jersey: NJ GIT, BAIT (NJ-PTE-100), CBT, and Inheritance Tax (IT-R / IT-NR) workpapers, all detailed below.
End-to-end payroll: calculations, federal and state deposits, quarterly 941 filings, and NJ Department of Labor and Workforce Development wage reports (NJ WR-30).
NJ State Disability Insurance (SDI) and Family Leave Insurance (FLI) withholding, W-2 and 1099 preparation, garnishments, and year-end close.
Financial audit workpapers, 401K audit, and EBP audit documentation.
Prepared to your firm’s standards and ready for your CPAs to review before client delivery.
Budgeting, multi-year forecasting, cash flow projections, KPI dashboards, and board-ready reporting for clients who need strategic support alongside compliance work.
A generic offshore team is not built for the verticals New Jersey firms serve. Our professionals are matched to your clients’ industries.
Bookkeeping, reporting, and workpapers for pharmaceutical manufacturers, contract research organizations (CROs), biotech, medical device firms, and licensed professionals, with R&D expense tracking, licensing royalty income, and multi-state filing.
Bookkeeping and workpapers for hedge funds, registered investment advisers, insurance companies, broker-dealers, and family offices with New Jersey operations or domicile.
Property accounting, rental income, depreciation schedules, 1031 exchange documentation, and investor reporting for investors, developers, and property managers in a high-property-tax state.
Bookkeeping, reporting, and equity compensation tracking for software and SaaS companies and tech-adjacent firms along the Route 1 corridor and in the Hoboken and Jersey City tech communities.
Practice accounting, insurance payment reconciliations, and compliance-focused reporting for New Jersey’s hospital systems, multi-specialty groups, and independent practices.
Fund accounting, restricted and unrestricted grant tracking, Form 990 preparation support, and board-ready packages for New Jersey’s nonprofit sector.
Law firm accounting, partner distribution tracking, billing reconciliation, trust accounting support, and year-end package preparation for professional service firms.
New Jersey firms pay among the highest accounting salaries in the US, and employer-side FICA, New Jersey state unemployment insurance, benefits, paid leave, and equipment add 25 to 35 percent on top of base pay. Here is how the true cost compares.
| In-House Accounting Staff in New Jersey | With Acculink CPA | |
|---|---|---|
| In-House Accounting Staff in New Jersey | With Acculink CPA | |
| Direct Cost | Market-rate NJ salary, among the highest in the US | $8–$35/hr, all-inclusive |
| Employer Overhead | Payroll taxes, benefits, PTO, 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 |
| NJ-Specific Tax Work | Separate hire needed, or work sent out | BAIT, NJ GIT, CBT, and Inheritance Tax workpapers included |
For a firm carrying two or three accounting positions, outsourced accounting pays for itself within the first quarter.
Federal tax knowledge does not transfer cleanly to New Jersey. That volume of structured, rules-based prep is where a dedicated team pays off.
Prepared on New Jersey’s own income category framework alongside the federal 1040, with no federal standard deduction (NJ itemized only), capital gains as ordinary income, no IRC §199A QBI deduction, and the bonus depreciation addback with separate NJ depreciation all handled.
Handled at three points, the entity-level NJ-PTE-100 (due March 15 for calendar-year entities), the quarterly estimated payments (April 15, June 15, September 15, December 15), and the BAIT credit on each owner’s NJ-1040, under P.L. 2019, c. 320 (effective tax year 2020), as amended by P.L. 2021, c. 419 to make the credit refundable.
Prepared with the NJ addbacks, federal bonus depreciation, the IRC §199A deduction, and other deductions NJ does not recognize, plus the minimum tax on New Jersey gross receipts that applies even with no net CBT income.
Prepared on Form IT-R for NJ residents and Form IT-NR for non-residents with NJ-situs property, both due within 8 months of death, with Class A and Class E exempt and Class C and Class D taxed above their exemptions, since NJ kept the inheritance tax after phasing out its estate tax effective January 1, 2018.
Your dedicated team works these on the current forms and rates; the filing decisions and sign-off stay with your licensed CPAs.
Compliance
Sharing client data with any outside team triggers specific legal and professional obligations. Here is how Acculink operates within each framework that applies to New Jersey firms.
Written, knowing, and voluntary client consent is required before return information goes to a preparer outside the United States, even your own supervised staff (26 CFR 301.7216-2(c)(2)). Acculink provides ready-to-use §7216 consent templates at onboarding that slot into your engagement letters.
Effective January 15, 2025; GLBA-covered data (Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act), most of what a CPA firm processes, is exempt, so confirm your firm’s scope with counsel. Acculink’s SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001:2013 audited infrastructure exceeds its requirements either way.
The Board, under the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, permits offshore support staff provided the licensed firm keeps supervisory responsibility and obtains client consents. Your CPAs review and approve every deliverable; Acculink staff never file returns, contact your clients, or represent your firm.
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Staffing gaps do not resolve on their own; tax deadlines, client growth, and turnover compound the problem every quarter. Acculink firms are typically onboarded and delivering within 5 to 10 business days, and the first 40 hours cost nothing.
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