Payroll Companies & Payroll Services in Elkhart, IN

Overview

Phillips & Company is an accounting, tax and payroll practice headquartered in Elkhart, Indiana. It operates online under the Michiana CPA name. The firm works with business owners and individual clients across northern Indiana and southern Michigan, and it has additional offices in South Bend and North Webster.

Employers comparing payroll providers will find outsourced payroll offered as one part of a wider package of bookkeeping, QuickBooks and tax support. That arrangement can suit companies that want payroll and year-end compliance handled by the same provider.

Payroll Services

The firm runs payroll for small and mid-sized employers, with a focus on paying wages correctly and on schedule. Its payroll offering includes:

• Remitting payroll taxes and filing the associated returns at federal, state and local levels
• Depositing and reporting State Unemployment Insurance on the employer's behalf
• Several ways to pay staff, including direct deposit, debit card payment and printed checks
• A look at payroll liabilities and the cash needed before each run is approved
• Secured off-site hosting of the client's payroll database
• Customized payroll reports

The same team also manages bookkeeping and tax work. As a result, payroll data can flow into financial statements, budgets and annual returns without reconciling records across separate vendors.

Accounting, Tax and Advisory Work

Beyond payroll, Phillips & Company provides bookkeeping, financial statement preparation, budgeting and cash flow monitoring for small businesses. Its QuickBooks help covers choosing a suitable version, mapping accounts, building reports and cleaning up disorganized files. New ventures can get guidance on drafting a business plan and choosing an entity type with favorable tax treatment.

On the tax side, the firm prepares business and individual returns and files individual returns electronically. It also develops forward-looking tax strategies and helps clients resolve disputes with the IRS.

Industries Served

The practice highlights experience with franchises, hotels and motels, manufacturers, medical practices, nonprofit organizations, and restaurants and bars. Its office pages describe support for the manufacturing, healthcare, retail and hospitality employers of St. Joseph County. They also mention companies in the industrial parks around North Webster, and startups and established businesses of varying size.

Background and Structure

The firm is led by Dan Phillips, who holds a CPA license and a master's in business administration earned at Notre Dame. He re-entered public practice in October 2006 when he acquired an established firm that had operated from its Elkhart address since 1986.

Earlier in his career he held roles in both public and private accounting, where he worked with owners and senior leadership at companies large and small. Clients have described him as transparent and honest. The North Webster location does business as Link Accounting Group, which is a corporation of Phillips & Company.

Buyers should understand how the firm is organized. It operates under what the AICPA calls an Alternative Practice Structure. Phillips & Affiliate, Inc. is the independently licensed CPA firm that handles attest engagements. Phillips & Company delivers non-attest tax, payroll and consulting work and does not itself hold a CPA firm license.

The practice says it values integrity, tailors its services to each client and aims for long-term working relationships. It offers a no-obligation first consultation and secure online file sharing for documents.