Industries We Serve
Hobe & Lucas’ history includes providing a variety of services to manufacturers of all kinds. We have worked with well over 100 manufacturing companies since our own inception in 1978. We have helped our clients through the drastic market changes of the 80’s and 90’s, and intimately understand the nuances that makes the manufacuring industry a challenge. We can assist you with inventory and provide you with a variety of value-added services. Let Hobe & Lucas apply these principles and experience to your organization, and maximize the value of a partnership with experts for the benefit of your company and employees.
Whether you are a general contractor, an electrical contractor, excavator, floor contractor or other specialized construction entity, Hobe & Lucas has the experience to help you organize and maintain your financial affairs. We have historically worked with over 100 construction industry clients. Whether yours is a large or small firm, we’ll provide insight on how you can better manage your business to maximize its value potential, and help you implement checks and balances that will help to secure your company’s future.
Hobe & Lucas has been providing quality audit, tax and management consulting services to the Northeast Area Health Care community for years, garnering the knowledge and expertise that will provide the best value for your organization’s needs. Our clients include individual physicians, a dentist, a group practice, counseling services groups, medical technology companies, nursing staffing organizations, hospitals, and others. We also provide services for initial public offerings, financing, policies and procedures documentation, internal control reviews, compensation and incentive planning and other business areas.
If you are a financial services executive, it may be hard to find the time to handle financial services for your own organization…the cobbler’s children have no shoes, so to speak. Hobe & Lucas is positioned to provide competent and valuable traditional accounting services such as tax, auditing, capital purchase management and strategic planning to organizations just like yours. Our unique understanding of your business allows us to handle the back-end work while you do what you do best – provide value for your clients. Our financial services clients have historically included such firms as broker dealers, brokerage and investment houses, mortgage banking operations, and title companies, among others.
Hobe & Lucas has been serving the needs of non-profit groups for more than two decades and understands the organizations' unique accounting practices. We work to provide the most value to the organization’s beneficiaries through strategic tax planning, audit and management consulting services. We work with organizations such as charities and foundations, church groups, diocesan groups,college organizations, animal-welfare groups, fraternities and sororities, and many others.
The success of any wholesale business is dependent on a number of factors, not the least of which are the professionals with whom the operation partners. At Hobe & Lucas, we understand the variables of running a wholesale business and provide tax, audit and management consulting capabilities tailored to meet the needs of this unique industry. Wholesale is about value – and so are we. Talk to us about how our experience in this business area can help your company prosper.
Accounting for the retail sector is an entity unto itself – and one that Hobe & Lucas understands intimately. Accurate financial reporting, tax planning and preparation, audit and strategic management services are inherent in the success of any retailer’s business. With more than two decades of experience, Hobe & Lucas is uniquely qualified to provide expert accounting services that focus on the value of your business and allow you to focus on what’s most important – your customers.
We Serve a diverse group of individual attaorney and law firms who have general an specialized areas of practice. Hobe & Lucas’ wide range of services can help law firms provide their clients with professional accounting capabilities for practice areas including: structured settlements; damage measurement; expert testimony and consulting; pensions valuations; business valuations; wage loss; marital dissolutions; and forensic accounting, among others. Hobe & Lucas is also equipped to provide traditional accounting services to the law firm, itself, working to increase the firm’s financial value while increasing the value of the firm’s services to its clients.
The numerous regulatory requirements governing the insurance industry necessitate specific accounting practices. Hobe & Lucas’ extensive experience in this field can help your organization navigate the ever-changing regulatory landscape and provide expert accounting services to guarantee your compliance. Whether the situation calls for entity structuring, compensation planning or strategic premiums planning, we know your financial situation – we have seen it before.
Hobe & Lucas history of service to the ever-changing Hi- tech industry includes such functions as understanding tax law and creating and implementing strategically effective programs. In addition, we have served clients in the areas of accounting, auditing and taxation for U.S. and International companies. Our experience with hi-tech manufacturing organizations has included hardware manufacturing; multimedia and software development, semiconductor development and software publishing companies. We can help you formulate accounting, structuring and staff augmentation strategies to grow your business, Let our experience in implementing effective tax and audit solutions to improve a firm’s bottom line work to improve your bottom line – and your overall value.
The mortgage industry has seen numerous changes in the past several years – changes that affect accounting regulations and practices. Hobe & Lucas are experts in the maze of rules and regulations governing the mortgage business. We can provide assurance that you are in compliance with the changing laws. Our traditional accounting services include: GAAS statements for FHA leaders; maintaining proper trust accounting; as well as tax, audit and strategic management consulting services. Let Hobe & Lucas help you navigate through the complexities of your industry – and get the value that you deserve.
Hobe & Lucas provides expert accounting services to a number of communications industries, including telecommunications, long-distance providers, Internet service providers and other call services organizations. Our wealth of experience in the communications field can help you to achieve the most value from your tax planning and preparation strategies, as well as providing you with valuable insight on internal processes, controls and management tactics.
Companies operating within the Venture Capital and Investment Banking industries need a professional accounting firm that is well experienced with their specific reporting and regulatory environments. Whether your company is a brand-new start-up seeking financial support, or an established entity looking to expand through a merger, acquisition or joint venture, you can expect a full range of support services from Hobe & Lucas. Our experience in this category includes fund management, pursuit of companies for acquisition, structuring and pricing of transactions for tax and reporting purposes, corporate structuring, buy/sell recommendations and due diligence. If your company needs expert advice to help it reach its value potential, Hobe & Lucas can be your guide.
Hobe & Lucas works with a variety of real estate investors, residential and commercial developers, brokers, agencies and property owners associations to ensure that their financial affairs are in order, and to minimize taxes and maximize profits. We’ll help you orchestrate your contracts and negotiations, and provide internal control reviews to determine areas for improvement. We can also provide guidance on risk management and insurance consulting. We’ll make sure that, no matter what deal is in the works, you’re covered.
Changing laws, lease or buy questions, equipment amortization, tax strategies and planning, and internal process efficiencies are all common problems faced by businesses in the transportation and logistics industry. Hobe & Lucas offers its transportation clients more than two decades of experience in providing guidance on these issues and others. Some of our current clients in this field include taxi companies, trucking organizations, local delivery systems, aggregate haulers, private school bus systems and others. We’ll help you determine the best strategy for your organization and maximize your profit value and your efficiency to enable you to get the most out of your business.
Hobe & Lucas’ advisory services can help you address business issues such as growing profitable sales, improving operating income and cash flow and expanding computer technology. Hobe & Lucas offers a full menu of accounting and business consulting services to restaurants, caterers, subcontractors, suppliers and manufacturers.
A successful distributor must select his resources very carefully. Hobe & Lucas understands what it takes to make a distribution operation a success. We are experienced in providing advice and services in inventory control, sales forecasting, operating budgets, organizational and entity structure, internal control studies, accounting system selection and implementation and many other critical activities that play a role your organization’s growth and value.
Given the recent publicity generated by such entities as Enron, WorldCom, Xerox and other accounting scandals, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and other recent changes in legislation regarding accounting for publicly traded companies is no surprise. Hobe & Lucas has over two decades of experience and a reputation for integrity and professionalism unequalled in the industry. We are prepared to provide services for publicly traded companies that include: financial reporting, auditing, initial public offerings, overseeing SEC and AICPA compliance, internal control evaluations, tax planning and filing and many other concerns unique to the publicly traded entity.
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