Your growth and development is shaped by improving bonding and financing opportunities, minimizing taxes through extensive tax planning and strategy, and maximizing profits through in-depth financial analysis. Our key strengths include:

• Leveraging relationships in the banking and surety industries to help your business prosper. Surety agents rely on our financial statements to help fulfill bonding needs.
• Improving business processes and profitability by analyzing the methodologies to improve cash flow, contain costs and build the value of your business.
• Minimizing tax obligations by skillfully guiding clients through the intricacies of federal, state and local taxes
• Multistate tax expertise that includes sales tax consultation on construction services, state bonding requirements and income tax vital to businesses that cross state boundaries.
• In-depth advice and counsel on long-term and residential construction contracts, look-back interest, alternative minimum tax, the domestic production activities deduction, and other potential tax savings.

Specific accounting, auditing and tax services offered by the Construction Services Group include:

• Surety and banking advisory services
• Tax compliance, planning and strategy for businesses and individuals
• Multistate sales tax consulting
• State and local tax planning and strategy
• Overhead and labor cost analysis
• Analysis of project profitability
• Job costing and indirect cost allocation
• Contractor and mortgagor cost certifications
• Estate and succession planning for closely held businesses
• Business valuation and litigation support

Kostin's Construction Services Group is actively engaged in the construction industry, supporting the following construction organizations:

• University of Hartford Construction Institute
• Construction Financial Management Association (CFMA)
• Association of Builders and Contractors (ABC)
• Connecticut Construction Industry Association (CCIA)
• Associated General Contractors of America (AGC)
• Professional Women in Construction (PWC)
• Home Builders Association of Connecticut (HBA)
• Builders Association of Eastern Connecticut (BAEC)
• Construction Industry CPAs/Consultants Association (CICPAC)

The tools for your success are within reach. Please contact Dan Donofrio, CPA, at or Joe Spagnoletti, CPA, CCIFP, at . Or call 800.286.5726.