Accounting for Professional Services

Manley Garvin specializes in accounting for professional services, offering tailored tax planning and consulting for legal, engineering, and service firms.

Let’s Connect

Accounting Solutions for Professionals Who Bill by the Hour, Not by the Ledger

Legal, engineering, and other professional service firms face unique accounting challenges, from managing time-based billing and tracking expenses to navigating complex tax rules. At Manley Garvin, we provide tailored accounting solutions that streamline your financial processes, improve cash flow, and reduce administrative burden. Whether you’re a solo practitioner or managing a growing firm, we help you stay organized, compliant, and focused on serving your clients, not chasing down numbers.

Tax Strategies That Work as Hard as You Do

We offer proactive tax planning, precise preparation, and ongoing consulting to help professionals reduce liabilities and make smarter financial decisions. If you’re aiming to optimize your entity structure, project tax obligations, or explore deductions unique to your field, our team ensures your tax strategy supports your long-term success.

Take Assessment

Accounting for Professional Services

We offer tax planning that helps you stay ahead of quarterly obligations and identify deductions specific to your industry. Our tax preparation ensures every return is accurate, compliant, and filed on time, so there are no surprises. With ongoing consulting, we help you make informed decisions about entity structure and compensation.

Tax Planning

Our tax planning services help professionals forecast liabilities, manage cash flow, and take advantage of industry-specific deductions and strategies.

Learn More

Tax Preparation

Manley Garvin’s tax preparation services ensure your returns are accurate, timely, and fully compliant, minimizing risk and giving you peace of mind.

Learn More

Tax Consulting

Our tax consulting services provide professionals with strategic guidance on entity structure, compensation planning, and long-term financial decisions.

Learn More

Discover How Your Financial Practices Measure Up

Take our five-minute accounting assessment evaluation to compare your current processes with industry standards and uncover opportunities to strengthen your financial strategy. You’ll gain clear, actionable insights and find out if our approach to accounting for professional services is the right fit for your firm.

Start My Assessment

Professional Accounting Isn’t Always Straightforward

Billing by the hour, managing client trust accounts, and navigating ever-changing tax laws can make accounting a real challenge for professionals. Without the right support, it’s easy to fall behind or miss key opportunities. But with Manley Garvin by your side, it doesn’t have to be that way.

 
PreviousNext

Keeping Your Financials in Sync With Your Billing

We help professional firms align their accounting systems with billing platforms, ensuring accurate time tracking, expense categorization, and revenue recognition, so you always know where you stand.

Turning Complex Tax Obligations Into Clear, Strategic Action

From pass-through entities to multi-state filings, our team helps simplify your tax landscape through proactive planning, clear guidance, and expert preparation tailored to your profession.

Case Study: Year-Round Bookkeeping Brings Clarity and Control to Family-Owned Business

A small family-run professional services business relied on a family member to manage finances using checkbooks and spreadsheets, often resulting in disorganized records and unexpected tax bills at year-end.

Manley Garvin took over their monthly bookkeeping, organizing their finances into a proper accounting system and providing consistent analysis throughout the year.

With clear records and proactive support, the business eliminated tax season surprises, gained better control over cash flow, and now makes financial decisions with greater confidence.

FAQs About Accounting for Professional Services

Professional service firms often deal with time-based billing, project-specific expenses, and irregular cash flow. These complexities require customized accounting systems that can track hours, manage receivables, and support smarter forecasting.

Yes, we work with law firms to manage trust accounting, retainers, client billing, and compliance with legal industry standards. Our team ensures your financials align with ethical and regulatory requirements specific to legal practices.

Tax consulting can help you make informed decisions about entity structure, compensation planning, and tax strategy. It’s especially valuable for optimizing income, reducing liabilities, and supporting long-term financial growth.

Accounting for More Starts Here

From minimizing tax burdens to guiding major financial decisions, our team is committed to helping your business. When you work with us, you gain more than a CPA—you gain a dedicated financial ally invested in your long-term success.

"*" indicates required fields

This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

Take Assessment
Make Payment
Client Login