Hospitality

Why Hospitality Companies Choose MGO

Running a hospitality business means balancing tight margins, changing consumer expectations, workforce challenges, and day-to-day operational demands. We help you strengthen financial performance with practical guidance, scalable accounting support, and strategies tailored to your business.

  • Improve profitability across your business: Every occupancy rate, menu change, staffing decision, and supplier contract affects your bottom line. We help you better understand your costs, strengthen margins, and identify opportunities to improve financial performance across your operation.
  • Tax planning that supports growth: State and local tax requirements, tax credits, and changing regulations create ongoing complexity for hospitality businesses. Our tax professionals help you stay compliant, identify savings opportunities, and plan proactively as your business grows.
  • Scalable finance and accounting support: Whether you need outsourced accounting, controller services, or fractional CFO support, we provide experienced financial leadership that grows with your business — without the cost of building a full in-house finance team.
  • Transaction and expansion consulting: Whether you’re opening a new location, acquiring a property, expanding your portfolio, or preparing for a sale, our transaction advisory, valuation, audit readiness, and financial due diligence services help you move forward with confidence.

Audit, Tax, Outsourced Accounting, and Consulting Services for Hospitality Businesses

Outsourced Accounting

Accounting system implementation, financial reporting, general ledger management, payroll support, credit card reconciliation, monthly close, and day-to-day accounting services that provide timely financial insight.

Outsourced Controller and CFO Services

Budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, board reporting, interim controllership, financial leadership, and process improvements to support informed decision-making as your business grows.

Audit Readiness and Transaction Support

Audit readiness, accounting standards implementation, financial reporting support, transaction advisory, due diligence, valuation, acquisitions, integrations, and specialized reporting.

Internal Controls and Risk Assessment

Entity-wide risk assessment, internal controls design and evaluation, gap analyses, and special project support to strengthen financial operations and reduce risk.

Tax Services

State and local tax compliance, tax credits and incentives, business tax planning, and strategic tax guidance for hospitality businesses operating across multiple locations and jurisdictions.

Solutions Built for You

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Tax Services

Keeping up with tax obligations isn’t just an onerous inevitability, it is an opportunity to gain competitive advantage and shape the path to the life you deserve. We leverage insight from leaders in key tax specialties to deliver practical and nuanced guidance to help you achieve your personal and professional goals.

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State and Local Tax

With varying regulations in every market, reduce exposure and maximize your opportunities to save.

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Tax Credits and Incentives

Put your profits back where they belong: driving expansion and innovation for your organization. With experienced guidance, credits and incentives can be a powerful tool for fueling your growth.

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Private Client Services

Managing significant wealth often means balancing personal, business, and family priorities. MGO helps high-net-worth individuals, business owners, family offices, athletes, and entertainers simplify complex financial decisions with integrated tax, wealth management, business management, and estate planning services.

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Transaction Advisory

Whether you’re buying or selling, you need to capitalize on every opportunity to maximize your return. With our support you can manage risk and uncover opportunities through every stage of the deal.

Entertainment, Sports, and Media

Why Entertainment and Sports Professionals Choose MGO

Your financial life becomes more complex as your career grows. Multiple income streams, touring, production companies, endorsements, royalties, NIL agreements, and international work all require coordinated planning. We help bring everything together with integrated business management, tax, and consulting services tailored to your goals.

  • A complete view of your financial life: We coordinate with your attorneys, wealth advisors, business managers, and other trusted professionals to create a financial strategy that reflects the full picture — not just one piece of it.
  • Industry knowledge that moves with your career: Whether your income comes from touring, film and television, royalties, endorsements, NIL agreements, catalog sales, or production companies, we help you navigate the financial and tax implications of every opportunity.
  • Proactive tax planning: Multistate tax obligations, international income, business ownership, and fluctuating earnings require year-round planning. Our team helps you anticipate tax challenges, identify planning opportunities, and make informed decisions before they become urgent.
  • More time for what matters most: Managing your financial life shouldn’t distract you from your work. We simplify day-to-day financial management so you can spend less time on administrative details and more time creating, performing, competing, and building your future.

Business Management, Tax, and Consulting Services for Entertainers, Athletes, and Creators

Business Management

Bill pay, cash flow management, budgeting and projections, payroll administration, entity structuring, expense management, and personal CFO services that keep your financial life organized and running smoothly.

Tax Planning and Compliance

Individual tax compliance, multistate tax planning, international tax planning, income review and tax strategy for salaries and performance fees, estate tax planning, and IRS representation.

Specialty Consulting

Royalty and publishing accounting, brand licensing, catalog transactions, NIL planning, tour accounting and budgeting, deal support, and digital asset accounting.

Film, Television, and Production

Production accounting, budgeting, payroll, industry-specific tax incentives, and financial planning for film, television, streaming, and other media productions.

Family Office and Financial Lifestyle Services

Family office coordination, investment analysis, estate and trust planning, insurance consulting, risk management, and guidance on significant purchases, including real estate, vehicles, aircraft, and other luxury assets.

Entertainment, Sports, and Media Playbook

You’ve worked tirelessly to fuel your success. Now your focus is on growing your wealth, leveraging your position, and securing a legacy you can be proud of. We’re here to simplify your financial life and deliver the attention and care you deserve.

The Athlete’s Financial Handbook

A clear, athlete‑first guide to managing money with confidence on the field and long after you leave it.

Guidance where you need it, when you need it.

Industry leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

Solutions Built for You

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Business Management

For more than four decades, we have worked with entertainers, athletes, and creatives. Our job is simple: streamline your financial world, protect your success, and position you to build lasting wealth and a legacy you can be proud of.

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State and Local Tax

With varying regulations in every market, reduce exposure and maximize your opportunities to save.

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International Tax

Conduct business across borders with confidence you’re limiting risk and maximizing returns.

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Closely Held Companies

Simplify your financial landscape with tailored tax guidance that helps you protect what you have built and plan for a prosperous future.

Cannabis

Why Cannabis Companies Choose MGO

We’ve worked alongside the cannabis industry since its early days, giving us firsthand experience with the tax, regulatory, financial, and operational challenges cannabis businesses face. Whether you’re building your foundation or preparing for your next stage of growth, we help you make informed decisions with practical guidance backed by deep industry experience.

  • Specialized tax planning: Section 280E creates unique tax challenges for cannabis operators. We help you evaluate available planning opportunities, manage multistate tax obligations, and develop practical strategies that protect margins while supporting compliance.
  • Audit, financial reporting, and transaction readiness: Financial statement audits, quality of earnings analyses, and internal control support help you meet investor and lender expectations while preparing for capital raises, acquisitions, and other strategic transactions. Our experience includes supporting cannabis companies through public listings, M&A transactions, and evolving reporting requirements.
  • Guidance for every stage of growth: Whether you’re launching a new operation, expanding into new markets, or preparing for a liquidity event, our professionals provide accounting infrastructure, outsourced accounting, advanced tax planning, valuation, transaction advisory, and financial reporting support tailored to where your business is today—and where it’s headed.
  • Deep industry relationships and resources: Our longstanding presence in the cannabis industry gives us relationships with regulators, investors, and operators across the ecosystem. We help connect clients with resources, share practical insights, and navigate regulatory changes as the market continues to evolve.

Audit, Tax, and Consulting Services for Cannabis Companies

Cannabis Tax Compliance and Planning

Entity structure assessment, Section 280E mitigation strategies, sales and excise tax compliance, partnership allocations, revenue recognition, and state and local tax guidance designed to support compliance while improving tax efficiency.

Accounting Structure Design

Chart of accounts setup, inventory accounting, financial reporting infrastructure, and cash handling procedures that establish a strong financial foundation for growing your cannabis business.

Capital Raise and Financial Reporting

Financial statement audits, due diligence preparation, monthly reporting, quality of earnings analyses, and investor-ready financial reporting to help position your business for capital raises, acquisitions, and other strategic opportunities.

IRS Audit Defense and Tax Advocacy

Preparation and representation for IRS examinations, supported by documentation strategies and advocacy developed specifically for cannabis businesses navigating Section 280E and related tax issues.

Transaction Advisory, Valuation, and Public Company Support

IPO readiness, technical accounting, internal audit, M&A due diligence, transaction advisory, business valuation, post-transaction integration support, and public company reporting.

Operational Guidance

Banking introductions, cash handling procedures, operational resources, temporary staffing support, and practical guidance to help strengthen day-to-day operations as your business grows.

6th Annual
Impact Review

Cannabis 50

The Cannabis 50 is our annual list of individuals, organizations, entertainers, and others who made a positive impact on the cannabis industry in the past year.

This year’s honorees include Movers and Shakers like Good Day Farm and Wyld, Culture Shapers like Belushi’s Farm and Death Row Cannabis, and Up-and-Comers like Happy Munkey and Pure Beauty.

See our full list.

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Cannabis Playbook:
Your Next Phase of Growth

MGO was one of the first national accounting firms to develop and provide targeted accounting, audit, tax, and consulting services to the cannabis and hemp industries. We have helped numerous cannabis companies with their go-public and liquidity transactions. Today, we provide industry-leading experience and a suite of solutions to help operators, regulators, institutional investors, and brands navigate the complexities of the cannabis and hemp industries.

Cannabis leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

Solutions Built for You

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Private Company Audit

Deliver stakeholder confidence and identify opportunities to improve with an audit approach tailored to your needs.

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Transaction Advisory

Whether you’re buying or selling, you need to capitalize on every opportunity to maximize your return. With our support you can manage risk and uncover opportunities through every stage of the deal.

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State and Local Tax

With varying regulations in every market, reduce exposure and maximize your opportunities to save.

Breweries, Distilleries, and Craft Cocktail Producers

Why Craft Beverage Producers Choose MGO

Every batch, barrel, and bottle represents an investment in your business. We help craft beverage producers strengthen financial performance, navigate complex tax and regulatory requirements, and make informed decisions as they grow. 

  • Strategic financial guidance built around your business: Managing production costs, optimizing your supply chain, and planning for expansion all require a clear understanding of your financial performance. We provide practical guidance and actionable insights that help you improve profitability while supporting long-term growth.
  • Tax and regulatory compliance: The craft beverage industry operates in a complex web of federal, state, and local tax and licensing requirements. We help you navigate excise taxes, sales and use tax, licensing obligations, and financial reporting requirements while supporting domestic and international growth.
  • R&D tax credits and innovation incentives: Innovation drives differentiation in the craft beverage market. Whether you’re developing new products, refining production processes, or improving sustainability, we help identify eligible activities, document qualified expenses, and claim available R&D tax credits.
  • Transaction, valuation, and succession planning: Whether you’re acquiring another business, bringing on investors, or planning your exit strategy, our transaction advisory, valuation, and succession planning services help you protect enterprise value and prepare for what’s next.

Financial, Tax, and Consulting Services for Craft Beverage Producers

Tax Planning and Compliance

Federal and state tax compliance, excise tax management, sales and use tax, international export tax guidance, and proactive tax planning to help reduce risk and support sustainable growth.

R&D Tax Credits

Eligibility assessments, documentation, and substantiation for product innovation, new ingredient development, product improvement, and sustainable manufacturing initiatives.

Audit and Financial Reporting

Financial statement audits and reviews, internal control evaluations, and inventory accounting to support accurate reporting, lender confidence, and informed business decisions.

Transaction Advisory and Valuation

Buy-side and sell-side due diligence, business valuations, quality of earnings analysis, transaction planning, entity structuring, and post-transaction integration guidance.

Outsourced Accounting and Consulting

Operational guidance, accounting support, assistance securing financial services, and outsourced controller functions for businesses from startup through expansion.

Leaders ready to serve you

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.

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Put your profits back where they belong: driving expansion and innovation for your organization. With experienced guidance, credits and incentives can be a powerful tool for fueling your growth.

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Power innovation by reducing your tax liability with federal and state R&D tax credits. MGO helps you determine whether you qualify, document your qualifying activities, and claim the credit with confidence.

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Manufacturing and Distribution

From supply chain disruptions to rising costs and changing customer demand, manufacturers and distributors face constant operational and financial challenges. MGO helps you improve visibility, strengthen margins, and support growth with audit, tax, transaction advisory, and consulting services.

Biotech and Life Sciences

Why Biotech and Life Sciences Companies Choose MGO

We serve more than 100 biotech and life sciences companies across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices, nutraceuticals, CROs, CMOs, and other innovative healthcare sectors. From startup through commercialization and the public markets, we help you navigate the financial, regulatory, and operational complexities that come with growth.

  • Lifecycle-specific financial guidance: Every stage of your company’s lifecycle brings new financial priorities. From establishing your accounting infrastructure in the early stages to preparing for a capital raise, IPO, or M&A transaction, our team provides practical guidance tailored to where your business is today — and where you’re headed next.
  • Technical accounting and reporting you can rely on: Revenue recognition, R&D cost capitalization, equity accounting, and public company reporting all require technical precision. We help you navigate complex accounting requirements while delivering accurate, reliable financial reporting that supports investors, lenders, and other stakeholders.
  • Tax credit planning: Biotech and life sciences companies often qualify for federal R&D tax credits, orphan drug tax credits, and other incentives. We help you identify eligible activities, document qualified expenses, and claim all available credits so you can reinvest more capital into innovation.
  • Capital and transaction readiness: Whether you’re preparing for your next funding round, planning an IPO, or exploring M&A, we help position your business for success with investor-ready financial reporting, stronger internal controls, transaction advisory, valuation services, and due diligence support.

Audit, Tax, and Consulting Services for Biotech and Life Sciences Companies

Accounting Structure Design and Outsourced Accounting

Chart of accounts design, accounting process development, internal controls, financial reporting, outsourced accounting, and 409A valuation services for early-stage and growth-stage companies.

Corporate Tax Compliance and Planning

Entity structure assessment, tax compliance, strategic tax planning, sales and use tax, and state and local tax guidance to support growth and compliance.

Tax Credits and Incentives

R&D tax credits, orphan drug tax credits, energy tax credits, and work opportunity tax credits. We manage eligibility assessment, documentation, and substantiation to help you capture valuable tax savings.

Raising Capital and Financial Reporting

Due diligence preparation, financial statement audits, monthly reporting, quality of earnings analyses, and financial reporting support to help you attract investors and prepare for capital raises.

Advanced Tax Planning

Partnership allocations, revenue recognition, international tax support, and state and local tax guidance designed to address the increasingly complex tax needs of growing life sciences companies.

Public Company and Transaction Support

IPO readiness, financial statement audits, technical accounting, internal audit, M&A due diligence, transaction advisory, valuation services, integration support, and entity restructuring.

Time to maximize your R&D tax credits

This under-utilized dollar-for-dollar credit can reduce your tax liability and/or offset payroll taxes. Contact us to see if you qualify.

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Conduct business across borders with confidence you’re limiting risk and maximizing returns.

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As one of the first national accounting firms to establish a dedicated cannabis practice, MGO serves more than 400 cannabis, hemp, CBD, and ancillary businesses. From navigating Section 280E and complex regulations to preparing for transactions and long-term growth, we help operators across the cannabis value chain build financially sound, compliant organizations.

Leaders Ready to Serve You

As you grow, you face complex risks and opportunities. Benefit from hands-on guidance focused on delivering top-to-bottom value for you and your organization.