Dirk T Ahlbeck

Business Description

Apple Growth Partners are specialists and CPAs with backgrounds in accounting, finance, law, business management, and technology. Our services encompass the functional needs of a business; our planning and analyses help businesses plan for and manage growth. Our Healthy Growth Checkup® for private businesses helps gauge the need for these services.

One of my specialties is restaurants and the knowledge of the unique industry's specific benefits available as well as the resources we have for our restaurant clients and issues they face especially in this "new socially distanced" world. Our firm works with the clients on the following:

*Make sure they get all restaurant industry-specific tax benefits
- Credits unique to the industry (the last two prospects I met failed to utilize)
- Better corporate structure to save taxes
- City and local tax compliance-things you may not know
*Benchmark with restaurant industry metrics using monthly financial statements
- Three most important numbers on a restaurant financial statement
- Share reports of similar concept and key performance indicators-Are you on track?
*Use technological solutions to streamline by 50% everyday accounting functions
- Measure what you track financially
- Internal controls every restaurant needs to implement

Apple Growth Partners also works with the unique concerns of brewers and distillers to recognize the importance of accurate product costing and inventory valuation, alcohol and excise taxes, and unique industry tax credits and deductions.

Leader in our Chicago restaurant and related food services practice and growing this specialty through associations, events, speaking engagements, thought leadership, networking and experts in the industry.