Hospitality and Entertainment

LaPorte is very proud of the clients we serve in the hospitality and entertainment industry, including a number of renowned restaurants. Our multi-disciplinary team of professionals has an in-depth knowledge of the special audit, tax, and consulting needs of hotels, restaurants, and production companies (in terms of Louisiana tax credits). While many firms have industry concentrations, our group comprises professionals who meet monthly to cross-train, identify best practices, review industry trends, and work together to reach collective solutions for our hospitality and entertainment clients.

Commitment to the Hospitality and Entertainment Industry

    Our commitment to your industry is demonstrated through our professionals’ leadership roles and the firm’s active participation in trade organizations and associations.

  • Hospitality Financial Technology Professionals (HFTP)
  • Louisiana Restaurant Association (LRA)
  • Louisiana Produces (film organization)
  • New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau

Hospitality and Entertainment Client Base

    Our group serves three principal categories of clients:

    Restaurants

  • Established, closely held, and/or family-owned
  • Multiple locations and franchises

    • Hotels

  • Bed and breakfast venues
  • Boutique hotels
  • Small chain hotels

    • Film and Digital Media Production Companies and Supporting Vendors

Services

    Overall Services

  • Accounting operations, systems, procedures, and internal controls reviews
  • Accounting outsourcing, including controllership services
  • Accounting systems selection, set up, and training
  • Audit, review, or compilation of financial statements
  • Cost segregation studies
  • Tax planning and preparation for entities and owners

    • Restaurant Services

  • FICA tip credit calculation assistance
  • Industry-specific software evaluations (such as Compeat and MICROS)
  • Inventory control consultation
  • Tax assistance (payroll, sales, contract labor)
  • Tip report assistance and preparation

    • Film and Digital Media Services

  • Agreed-upon procedure engagements for digital media tax credit certification
  • Film cost report audits for state tax credit certification
  • Louisiana tax credit programs compliance

    • Hotel Services

  • Industry-specific software selection analyses (back office)
  • Profitability/occupancy analyses
  • Tax assistance (payroll, sales, exhibition)

Biographies | Group Leaders

    Kevin HandKevin W. Hand, CPA, CHAE
    Director, Accounting Services
    Biography

    Debbie BrockleyDebbie Brockley, CPA, M.S.
    Director, Tax Services
    Biography

    Frank H. Carbon, Jr.Frank H. Carbon, Jr., CPA, CFP
    Director, Audit and Assurance Services
    Biography

    Lance MoranLance Moran, CPA
    Vice President, Audit and Assurance Services

    Tiffanie V. RoppoloTiffanie V. Roppolo
    Senior Manager, Accounting Services

McGladrey Alliance

    LaPorte is an integral part of the RSM McGladrey Network, the national accounting firm association of RSM McGladrey, Inc. RSM McGladrey, working with McGladrey & Pullen, LLP, serves clients' needs from more than 100 offices nationwide. Working together, these two separate organizations are one of the largest providers of accounting, tax, and consulting services in the U.S. This affiliation gives us access to a full range of national and international capabilities including the resources of more than 260 locations throughout the United States. Internationally, our affiliation includes over 560 offices in over 70 countries worldwide. In most cases, our RSM McGladrey Network affiliation allows us to meet demands that financial services be performed by a "nationally recognized accounting firm."

    We accepted an invitation to become affiliated with this network because it is a natural outgrowth of our commitment to clients and our determination to stay on the cutting edge of developments affecting accounting and consulting firms.

    We maintain our name, autonomy and independence as a locally owned and responsive accounting firm responsible for our own client fee arrangements, our own delivery of services, and our own maintenance of client relationships.

Website Links

    Hospitality and Entertainment Websites of Interest:

  • Louisiana Restaurant Association | www.lra.org
    The Louisiana Restaurant Association is one of the largest business organizations in the state, representing more than 7,500 restaurant operations and related businesses. The restaurant industry in Louisiana employs 140,000 people directly and another 55,000 indirectly. Restaurants in Louisiana are expected to generate $4.8 billion in sales during 2008.

  • Hospitality Financial and Technology Professional
    www.hftp.org
    Hospitality Financial and Technology Professionals (HFTP) is an international professional association dedicated to providing the hospitality finance and technology community with networking, resources, and continuing education.

  • New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau
    www.neworleanscvb.com
    New Orleans Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau offers convention services and information for visitors to New Orleans. Whether you are planning a New Orleans vacation, a business trip, or traveling with friends to one of the many New Orleans events, like Mardi Gras, including Bourbon Street and French Quarter festivities, you can find what you need here. Along with coupons for various stores and events, and information on where to do the best New Orleans shopping, you'll also get information on New Orleans hotel availability, culture and background, New Orleans restaurants, and the best in New Orleans music and entertainment.

  • Louisiana Film and Television | www.lafilm.org
    The Governor's Office of Film & Television Development is the public agency within the state of Louisiana Department of Economic Development that serves as an informational clearinghouse and provides technical assistance to individuals and entities engaged in film and television production in the state. The Office of Film & Television Development supports production companies by identifying the key economic, social and cultural benefits of basing film and television projects in the state. Our goal is to make your job easy and to make accessible the many venues and values Louisiana has to offer.

  • Louisiana Production Index http://www.louisianaproductionindex.com

  • Louisiana Film and Video Magazine | www.lafilm.org
    Louisiana Film & Video Magazine  A bi-monthly trade publication for the Louisiana film, video, and audio production community. Featuring informative production news, film, video and audio guest columns with powerful story features.

  • Broadway South | www.lafilm.org
    Broadway South is an economic development initiative designed to promote Louisiana as a culturally driven economic powerhouse. With theater districts across Louisiana serving as the frontlines of this proposed economic initiative, Broadway South will lift the entire state’s pre-Katrina $5 billion tourism economy to new levels of prosperity, while also complementing and sharing resources with the filmmaking industry.

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