Restaurants & Hospitality

Moore Colson has focused on serving the Restaurant and Hospitality industry throughout the southeast since 1981. As an integral part of our overall real estate practice, we understand the emerging issues and the many challenges hospitality companies face in today’s economy. From restaurants, hotels and resorts, to recreation, sports and entertainment facilities, our committed team of industry experts can provide the knowledge and leadership you need to be successful.

Restaurant 365 Partnership

Moore Colson is the first accounting firm in Atlanta to partner with Restaurant365 (R365), an all-in-one, cloud-based, back-office system built for restaurants. Our team members are experts in the R365 solution and can help your restaurant through all phases of planning, implementation and use of the software. We provide consultation services to help you implement R365 efficiently and effectively for your restaurant business. Post-implementation, our professionals become a training resource to you and your team on using the software for your restaurant’s accounting and tax processes, ensuring your teams are more productive and can provide your business’s leadership with better information in less time.

Services

Financial Statement Audit

Our team of professionals have backgrounds with “Big 4” and regional accounting firms and can bring restaurant and hospitality industry expertise to you. This experience will help you take advantage of opportunities to improve cash flow—from tax credits to real estate decisions.

Federal and State Income Tax Returns

Our tax professionals are well versed in providing restaurant and hospitality companies tax saving and minimization ideas as well as ensuring tax returns are prepared and delivered in a timely fashion.

Tax Credits

Work Opportunity Tax Credits, Retraining Credits, and FICA tip credits.

State Tax Compliance and Consulting

Moore Colson can provide assistance and advice related to multistate income and franchise tax, sales and use tax, and property tax.

Cost Segregation Studies

A potential opportunity for the Company, either now or in the future, may be to have a cost segregation study performed to accelerate tax depreciation and improve cash flows in the near term as the result of lowered income taxes.

PCI DSS Compliance and IT Risk Assessments

The ability to swipe a credit card is a critical convenience for your customers. To ensure that you can continue providing that convenience, however, you must be able to prove that you are complying with the Payment Card Industry’s (PCI) requirement to document your data security standards (DSS).  Moore Colson’s IT Audit Team can assist you in this and other IT security areas.