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Let's reach your
Let's reach your
financial apex.
Key Strategies Advisory Group, LLC delivers the rigor of a national firm with the attentiveness of a trusted partner — tax preparation, bookkeeping, business formation, and advisory for individuals and closely-held businesses.
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Advisory, all season
Standards & Frameworks
IRS Circular 230
IRS Pubs 17 & 334
FinCEN BOI & BSA
CA FTB · CDTFA
CPA of Counsel
Our Approach
Four disciplines.
Four disciplines.
One integrated engagement.
We don't hand you off between departments. A single lead partner coordinates the work — so your tax position, your books, and your strategy move in lockstep.
Start with a consultation-
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Discover
Complimentary scoping call to understand your entity structure, filing history, and goals. We listen before we prescribe.
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Diagnose
We review prior returns, books, and contracts for exposure, missed credits, and restructuring opportunities — then tell you plainly what we found.
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Design
A written engagement plan with scope, deliverables, timeline, and a fixed or retainer-based fee. No surprises, ever.
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Deliver
Execution through our secure client portal — documents, e-signatures, and status, all in one place. You always know where things stand.
Practice & Approach
A full-service practice,
A full-service practice,
purpose-built for your stage.
From formation and bookkeeping to amended returns and forensic work — six disciplines, four steps, one lead partner who coordinates them all.
Tax Preparation & Strategy
Individuals, partnerships (1065), S-corps (1120S), C-corps (1120), trusts, and non-profits. Year-round planning, not just season-end filing.
- Federal & multi-state returns
- Entity election & restructuring
- R&D, solar, & energy credits
- IRS representation & notice response
Amended Returns
Prior-year returns re-examined for missed credits, bad elections, and exposure — with a signed preparer on record.
- Form 1040-X & business amendments
- IRS & FTB notice response
- Penalty abatement requests
- Representation by IRS-registered preparer (PTIN & ERO)
Business Formation & Entity Planning
From idea to operational entity — the formation work that sets up every future tax decision.
- LLC, S-corp & C-corp formation
- EIN & state registrations
- Operating agreement coordination
- FinCEN BOI & compliance calendar
Bookkeeping & Payroll
QuickBooks Online–first workflows with monthly close, dashboards, and integrated payroll — one system, one source of truth.
- Monthly close & reconciliation
- A/R & A/P management
- Payroll, W-2 / 1099 issuance
- Custom KPI dashboards
Advisory & Consulting
Controller- and CFO-level counsel for owners who want to operate with visibility and move with confidence.
- Entity selection & structuring
- Cash-flow & budget modeling
- Forecasting & KPI design
- Fundraise & due-diligence support
Forensic & Investigative Accounting
Reconstruction, analysis, and documentation support when the paper trail matters most — coordinated with your legal counsel.
- Transaction reconstruction
- Lifestyle & income analysis
- Divorce & partnership disputes
- Exhibits & documentation support
Briefing Desk
The desk's read
The desk's read
on what's moving.
Daily editorial commentary in the firm's voice, paired with a live wire of what's crossing the major desks — IRS, AICPA, Federal Reserve, and the trade press.
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Industries
Deep experience where it matters.
We're generalists by training and specialists by case load. A few of the industries where we go deep.
Solar & Renewable Energy
Installers, developers, & homeowners claiming ITC, depreciation, and state-level incentives.
Real Estate & REITs
1031 exchanges, cost segregation, passive loss rules, and REIT qualification testing.
Professional Services
Law firms, agencies, and consultancies on cash vs. accrual, PTE elections, and owner comp.
E-commerce & Retail
Multi-state nexus, inventory accounting, and marketplace facilitator reconciliation.
Construction & Trades
Job costing, percentage-of-completion, and sub-contractor 1099 compliance.
Non-Profits
Form 990 preparation, unrelated business income, and grant accounting.
About the firm
A boutique practice with
A boutique practice with
institutional standards.
Key Strategies Advisory Group, LLC was founded on a simple idea: the quality of advice you get shouldn't depend on the size of your company. We bring the methodology, documentation, and discipline of a national firm to individuals, founders, and closely-held businesses who deserve the same standard.
We work senior-led and low-volume by design. Every engagement gets a primary lead who knows your file end-to-end, plus a second senior read on every deliverable before it leaves our office — the same dual-review discipline you'd expect from a national firm, without the layers of analysts in between.
Clarity. Plain-language deliverables, always.
Rigor. Documented positions, citable authority.
Responsiveness. 1-business-day reply standard.
“We read your books and tax position the way a Big 4 senior would — then translate them into decisions a founder can actually act on.”
— The Key Strategies approach
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