Business Consulting for Westchester Companies
Most business decisions are financial decisions — what entity to form, when to hire, whether the price on that acquisition makes sense. Cerullo LLC has advised Westchester County owners since 1978, from first-time founders choosing between an LLC and an S corporation to established companies planning a sale or succession. Because we also handle the books and taxes for many of the businesses we advise, our recommendations start from your real numbers, not generic benchmarks.
Entity selection and business formation
The entity you choose sets your tax bill, your liability exposure, and your paperwork burden for years. We model the choices — sole proprietorship, LLC, partnership, S corp, C corp — against your actual income projections and New York's specific costs, then coordinate the elections and registrations once you decide.
- LLC vs. S corp analysis with real-number tax modeling
- New York State and local registration coordination
- S corporation elections and revocations
- Ownership and operating-agreement structuring with your attorney
Strategic and financial planning
Budgets, projections, and pricing models that hold up because they come from someone who sees hundreds of Westchester businesses' actual results. We help owners answer the questions that keep them up at night: can I afford this hire, why is profit shrinking while revenue grows, what happens to cash if a big customer leaves.
Business valuation and transactions
Buying a business, selling one, or bringing in a partner all turn on the same question: what is it worth? We prepare valuations for transactions, buy-sell agreements, and planning purposes, and we advise through the deal — due diligence on the target's books, structuring the purchase for tax efficiency, and modeling the after-tax outcome.
Succession and exit planning
A business transition works best when it starts years before the handoff. We plan successions to family members, key employees, and outside buyers — coordinating the valuation, the tax structure, and the timeline so the owner leaves with what the business is worth and the business survives the departure.
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