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To be the best in the business of sports and entertainment, it takes a competitive edge.

Those of you in sports or entertainment as owners, professional players, entertainers or agents are understandably familiar with the phrase, “be competitive”. Chances are that you got where you are because you have that fire in your belly that drives you to compete, and succeed. As accountants and consultants to over 30 professional sports franchises or entertainment businesses since 1986, and as former minor league baseball owners/operators ourselves, we approach our responsibility to you in the same manner, in that our role is to strive to give you every advantage now and in the future in your business and/or personal tax and financial involvements. As pro-active professionals we bring you a unique combination of skills for profit enhancement and business growth and a personal understanding of the potential for handsome revenue streams in sports franchises and entertainment businesses catering to the public.

We Can Help Grow Your Revenues
As with any "ordinary" business, good planning and smart financial and business controls can go a long way to enhancing your results. Yet, the opportunities, and pitfalls, of running a sports or entertainment business have their own special character and their own challenges. We can help in:

- Structuring a long-term plan to maximize the value of your franchise or business
- Negotiating facility leases and concession agreements
- Selecting the most beneficial method of concession operation
- Increase your attendance and ticket sales
- Making the most of advertising revenues from programs, radio, billboards, scoreboard and public-address announcements
- Realize more potential in food and souvenir sales
- Diversifying and strengthening your promotional calendar

These and many more standard financial questions - how to improve your cash flow and how to reduce your tax consequences, or how to restructure debts and plan for retirement - are all part of the reality of running a sports or entertainment business.

We Can Help You Control Your Cash
From helping you keep an eye on your labor costs, to game or show reporting, concession consulting and a variety of comparative analyses, we can keep you on top of your expenses, your revenues and your cash flow. A partial list of our accounting and consulting services includes:

- Cash flow planning and management
- Cash flow control and internal reporting
- Billing and accounts receivable monitoring and collection
- Concession consulting, including gross profit analysis and daily cash control
We Can Help You Manage Your Investment
We can help you evaluate your own business, or someone else's. There are research tools we can use to help you assess the true worth of your business or a possible acquisition. As accountants and consultants to sports and entertainment businesses across the country, we know the market and each market's special needs, such as Control Interest Transfers in baseball.
We can help you with Acquisitions
- Franchise and business evaluation
- Structuring the business deals- choice of entity
- Review of systems
- Due diligence
- Comparative financial statement analysis.

Call Steven Resnick at 215-628-8080, or
email SR@ral-cpa.com, today.