GHJ focuses on helping forward-thinking, entrepreneurial organizations and individuals within the entertainment industry by providing assurance, tax, film and television profit participation, royalty and licensing audit, expert witness and litigation support, and consulting services designed specifically with their needs in mind. Additionally, GHJ's dedicated tax team is specifically trained in dealing with complex tax issues for privately held, high-growth entertainment companies. GHJ works with clients to identify tax-planning opportunities that may apply to their businesses.

Working with GHJ gives companies and individuals access to entertainment industry expertise and knowledge and full connectivity to our global network of advisors. Along with expertise from GHJ's own International Tax Department, GHJ assist clients by leveraging its world-wide network of independent accounting firms and business advisors located across the U.S. and in over 100 countries. As clients become more aggressive players in the global economy, GHJ is able to respond quickly through its HLB International network to help with the success of their ventures.

GHJ also provides clients access to resources that highlight emerging trends and inspire thoughtful discussions amongst peers and industry leaders through our surveys, industry events, blogs and other publications. GHJ also provides clients access to resources that highlight emerging trends and inspire thoughtful discussions amongst peers and industry leaders through its events , blogs and publications.

For over 30 years, GHJ has worked with privately owned businesses in the food and beverage industry. GHJ provide learned and proven practices to help clients meet their business objectives. GHJ is a firm that is big enough to get it right but personalized enough to care about your needs. GHJ's goal is to leverage its industry expertise so clients can gain a competitive advantage and maximize revenues through proactive accounting and strategic planning.

In today’s environment of business consolidation, increased competition and regulatory pressures, the food and beverage industry is facing its toughest challenges in years. Manufacturers, packers and co-packers, distributors and retailers can all benefit by partnering with an accounting firm that understands the unique inventory, process and transactional issues facing the industry.

GHJ is often engaged to provide benchmarking, articles, consulting and best practice to help food and beverage companies prepare for the future. The Firm provides clients’ access to thoughtware highlighting emerging industry trends, legislation and more through its blogs and publications, as well as hosts events to inspire discussions amongst peers and industry leaders. GHJ looks forward to the opportunity to leverage its expertise to help clients grow through strategic planning.

By marrying both industry expertise and GHJ’s core value of promoting health and wellbeing to its team members, GHJ partners with companies and provide cutting-edge value beyond accounting by acting as a strategic advisor. GHJ takes a proactive and holistic approach with businesses across multiple segments within Health and Wellness such as digital health, health and beauty, fitness and diet/nutrition.

With a depth of experience in the finance and accounting staffing industry, GHJ knows how to place the right person into the right environment. This is evident by the fact that many of our clients repeatedly use our services — for both temporary and permanent positions. 

GHJ Search and Staffing provides clients the advantage of its unique association with professional accounting firms. Additionally, GHJ’s relationship with HLB, a global advisory and accounting network, provides the resources needed to better understand client needs, attract a higher caliber of candidates and assess candidate potential.

All professionals must meet a CPA firm’s standards. The Search and Staffing Team provides an in-house screening process with partners and trusted advisors, which differentiates GHJ from other staffing firms. Fully integrated partners also provide feedback and better evaluate a candidate’s technical skills, producing better quality and higher caliber recruits.

GHJ's team performs everything from tax and accounting services to product cost analysis to maximize profitability. GHJ helps manufacturing and distribution companies address a variety of economic and regulatory challenges and advises them on long-term strategic goals.

GHJ's Growth Planning and Strategic Advisory Practice acts as a strategic advisor to guide our clients’ strategy and execution, often acting as an outsourced corporate development department. Working with GHJ provides clients the benefit of getting an outside perspective that is able to provide insights into what the buyer is looking for and allow the seller to better position themselves in the marketplace.

GHJ’s perspective is data-driven and rooted in decades of investment banking and advisory experience. The Growth Planning and Strategic Advisory Team knows what investors and buyers want to see and takes that experience to assist clients so they will have better business outcomes. GHJ’s Team challenges existing company processes to improve profitability and create value in a company and provides guidance to choosing alternative pathways for growth or ownership goal achievements.

Transaction Advisory Services (TAS) represents buyers and sellers to support their objectives by providing strategic and transactional perspective. Buyers and sellers have many decisions to make, and our team arms clients with the information needed to make the choice that will best help them achieve their goals. Understanding that the flow of timely and accurate financial and tax information is critical in completing a successful transaction, we work with clients throughout the lifecycle of a transaction and acts as a trusted business advisor every step of the way.

In today’s pressure-packed Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) market, motivated buyers and sellers require information to be vetted quickly to make the best decision with their goals and risk objectives in mind. Whether on the buy-side or sell-side, time is one of the most critical elements in a transaction. GHJ's dedicated team of M&A professionals are specifically focused on middle-market companies and transactions who represent buyers and sellers and support their objectives from a strategic and transactional perspective.

GHJ's Data Analytics Services (DAS) Practice specializes in both structured and unstructured data, enabling clients to unlock valuable insights from their databases, CRM systems, GL records and other core repositories.

GHJ’s DAS Team can take complete, high-quality data produced related to operations, human resources, surveys, finance or any other area and provide solutions to alleviate recording, documentation and integrity issues. Overall, DAS supports your business intelligence. Services provided include:

• Acting as a technical liaison in implementation
• Automating reports, data pipelines and certain manual and repetitive, time-consuming tasks
• Designing interactive visuals
• Designing data governance procedures for maintaining high-quality data
• Identifying issues or weaknesses in data and designing solutions
• Performing models and forecasts
• Performing targeted analysis of data for trends

GHJ's Tax Practice is comprised of over 75 professionals, the majority of whom have post-graduate degrees in tax, law or business and have previously worked with “Big Four” accounting firms.

GHJ has a dedicated team specifically trained in dealing with complex tax issues for privately held businesses, including federal, state and local tax strategies, tax credit maximization, estate planning and international matters.

Additionally, through an affiliation with HLB International, GHJ has access to tax resources in most major cities throughout the U.S. and the world, helping GHJ serve clients with international operations.