The audit and accounting practice provides our clients the necessary financial statements needed for internal purposes, banks, and other regulatory needs.
Among the industries that Mike's experience encompasses are:
-Manufacturing, including high-tech
-Wineries and vineyards
-Food distributorships
-Food processing
-Retailers, including catalog sales
-Professionals (e.g., attorneys, including law firms)
-Homeowner associations
-Construction
-Service
-Start-ups
-Real estate
The tax practice provides traditional compliance services, i.e.,
preparation of tax returns, but also consults on tax effect of
transactions, and general tax planning. Mike's experience includes:
-Personal income tax
-Partnerships
-Corporations and S corporations
-Personal Service Corporations
-Limited Liability Companies
-Trusts and estates
-Expatriates
-U.S. taxation of foreign nationals
-Property transactions
-Charitable giving
-Tax exempt entities
Mike graduated with honors from U.C. Santa Barbara with a business economics degree including an accounting emphasis. During his university years, he was an economics department teaching assistant as an undergraduate, worked for one of his accounting professors in his accounting practice, and worked in the on-campus computer lab as a teacher.
Mike joined Linkenheimer LLP after working in the tax department of
Arthur Young (now Ernst & Young) in their San Francisco office. At
AY, Mike received valuable experience in the areas of tax law
research, biotech, venture capital, real estate, and mergers and
acquisitions. Mike is a member of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and the California Society of Certified
Public Accountants. The firm is a member of AGNA, which is
affiliated with a world-wide association of independent accounting
firms. As part of the firm's commitment, Mike teaches at annual
staff training sessions.
Mike's wife, Annette, is the Hospitality
Manager at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, CA. Their son, Jonah, and
dog, Buckley, occupy much of their time. But, when it is available,
he likes to read. Summers are spent playing golf with his wife and
friends, road and mountain biking, hiking and mountaineering,
fishing and traveling. He loves to snow ski.
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