Services Overview

Bapple & Bapple proudly advises our clients in a wide array of services, locations, and industries

We place an emphasis on quality of service. For over 4 decades we have focused on providing personal attention, commitment, and energy to each client relationship. We strive to ensure that the client’s planning and execution are designed specifically to meet their accounting and financial needs and goals.Whether it’s the correct forms, which filings apply, when and where to report information, or how decisions made throughout the year can effect business and individuals, we provide our clients with tools to make informed decisions without getting lost in the paperwork.

As a condition of our membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and Indiana CPA Society, we participate in a rigorous quality control program, which includes peer reviews of our accounting practice. This review ensures our compliance with the highest of professional standards and our commitment to holding the best continuing professional education standards as required by federal and state agencies.

Income Tax Filings are required for the taxes levied on both individuals and businesses. There are thousands of pages of U.S. Tax code currently and that doesn’t include the tax regulations and official tax guidelines from the IRS. It can be overwhelming and feel complicated.

Let Bapple & Bapple's tax professionals provide proactive, professional tax return filings for your preparation needs. Whether you require filings for your business (private or public), a not-for-profit organization or your individual return, we are here to assist you in taking full advantage of all available opportunities and ensure you comply with every requirement.

Planning ahead of time can provide key information and options to address the tax effects and ensure that each client pays the federal, state and local taxes due.

Our team employs a collaborative approach, working closely with our clients to understand their unique challenges and goals. We utilize the latest industry best practices, are constantly continuing our education and updating our skill sets to deliver accurate information and give our clients the details they need in order to understand and evaluate how each component of your tax plan affects the big picture. This crucial step in developing an exhaustive tax strategy captures every possible opportunity on savings for your local, state, and federal taxes. We strive to minimize tax surprises for our clients, and help them make the best decisions for their activities.

Many of us have the unfortunate necessity of dealing with what is left behind when people pass from our lives. We can be left to pick up the pieces and a part of that can be ensuring that the property transferred to others is reported through an estate tax filing.

During this chaotic and charged time, we assist our clients in filing all the required tax filings, and advising them of the tax elections available to them. We work hard for you and your family to ensure that estate taxes are handled properly.

Trusts have a responsibility to manage assets for their beneficiaries. Tax impacts and filings are a reality when dealing with our client’s proper management of their responsibilities.

If you have set up a trust, been named as a trustor or as a trustee, we can assist in filing all required tax returns.

Decades of experience and the ability to work with all parties involved to create and support Trust filings and give our firm the ability to help you navigate the intricacies associated with these unique entities.

Any gift you give can have a potential tax implication and its definition can hit on things sometimes not thought of as gifts. Giving property (including money), the use of property or income from property, without expecting to receive something of at least equal value in return is defined by the IRS as a gift. If you sell something at less than its full value or if you make an interest-free or reduced-interest loan, you may be making a gift.

We help our clients navigate these distinctions, advise them on the tax effects, help them plan for gifting to minimize the tax impact and assist in the appropriate filings required.

Many of our clients need periodic Financial Statements. Whether these statements are needed for new and/or existing outside financing, required by a reporting agency, or important as an internal measure of a business’s health, Financial statements can be integral to a business.

Constant changes in financial accounting standards make financial statement preparation a highly technical and time consuming task.

We prepare our clients' financial statements with the objective to make sure they are timely and a relevant source of financial results. Using up-to-date accounting software, providing supporting documentation, and assisting in the consistent classification of transactions allow us to create a balanced approach to the recording of financial results.

IRS notices are intimidating and the problems tend to grow if not addressed properly and quickly. Our firm has dedicated tax and accounting specialists to assist our clients in understanding any notices they may receive and working with the government agency(s) involved to resolve outstanding issues. If you have received a notice from the IRS, we know the stress it entails and will do our utmost to assist you.

Having clear cut goals to meet on a reasonable time table creates a way to navigate through the daily chaos of operating a business. The importance of a comprehensive, thoughtful business plan cannot be overemphasized. A business plan should be a work in progress, a living document. Your business will evolve over time, and be influenced by outside factors such as the economy and local conditions.

We assist our clients with Business Plans and Strategies required for internal growth and structural development. Helping our clients walk through the future with a knowledge of the impacts of potential decisions and a way to measure how they are doing has proven invaluable.

Payroll is one of the most error sensitive and detail oriented parts of running any business with employees. If your business is having a difficult time keeping track of your payroll, or the burden of the multiple required filings is taking your time away from what makes you profitable, we are able to assist in organization and payment plans.

Our firm offers a variety of payroll services including check processing, periodic tax filings, confidential payrolls and year end reporting. We also work with dedicated payroll 3rd Party companies to ensure our clients are up to date and able to compensate every business’s most important assets, the people that make it work.