Accounting support that fits how you run your business
Fixed-fee bookkeeping, payroll, tax, and accounting built for farmers and service businesses across the Midwest
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TruCount CPA PC offers bundled bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, outsourced accounting, and personal income tax services for a fixed monthly fee in Brookings, SD. Farmers and service business owners get year-round tax planning, including farm-specific credits like the R&D credit and excess fertility deduction, plus real-time access through a secure online platform.
Most accounting relationships start reactive: tax documents submitted in March, a surprise invoice for a phone call, a tax bill nobody saw coming. TruCount CPA PC works differently. Every service below bundles into a fixed monthly fee, so you know your cost before the year starts, not after. Farmers, agribusiness operators, and service business owners across the Brookings area and throughout the Midwest use our secure online platform to see their numbers in real time, not months later. Pick one service or combine several. Either way, you get a CPA firm that treats your books like they matter to your bottom line, because they do.
Accounting that keeps your numbers current all year
Transaction classification and expense tracking happen continuously, not in a year-end scramble. We log activity through our secure online platform, so you can check cash position, categorized expenses, or a client balance from your phone during calving season or between service calls. That real-time access matters most for agribusiness operators across the Midwest managing input costs against grain prices, and for professional service business owners tracking job profitability week to week. No more waiting until April to find out where you stood in October. Accounting done this way also feeds directly into tax planning and payroll, so nothing gets re-entered or reconciled twice.
Payroll handled so you're never chasing deadlines
Seasonal hires, part-time help during harvest, a mix of hourly and salaried staff: payroll for ag operations and professional service businesses rarely fits a template. We handle the withholding calculations, filing deadlines, and direct deposits so you're not the one staying up late doing it between other jobs. Deadlines don't slip because they're not on your calendar anymore, they're on ours. That's real time back for owners who'd rather be running equipment or meeting clients than reconciling a pay period.
Tax preparation and planning designed around your entity
Tax prep is the easy part. The value comes from planning that happens in June, not just filing that happens in April. We work with farm entities, multi-entity ag operations, and professional service business structures throughout the year, watching for opportunities most preparers miss on a once-a-year return. Two examples we see regularly in South Dakota: the R&D credit for farmers experimenting with new practices, seed varieties, or equipment processes, and the excess fertility deduction for operators purchasing land with above-normal soil fertility. Both require documentation and timing decisions made before year-end, which is exactly why year-round advice matters more than a rushed filing session. If you run more than one entity, whether that's a farm operation paired with a trucking business or a rental property alongside your main practice, we coordinate the tax strategy across all of them instead of treating each return in isolation.
Outsourced accounting that acts as your finance department
Hiring a controller or CFO costs a salary most small operations can't justify. Outsourced accounting from TruCount bundles reconciliation, financial reporting, and advisory into one fixed-fee relationship, giving you CFO-level insight into margins, cash flow, and entity performance at a fraction of the cost of an in-house hire. This is the service that turns TruCount from a tax preparer into an extension of your team: we're in the numbers monthly, flagging trends before they become problems, not explaining them after the fact. Agribusiness operators use this to plan input purchases against commodity pricing. Service businesses use it to know which client relationships are actually profitable. Either way, you get someone watching the finances full-time without paying a full-time salary.
Personal income tax for the people behind the business
The business and the family finances rarely separate cleanly, especially on a farm passing between generations or a practice one spouse runs while the other works off-farm. We prepare personal returns through the same secure digital process as your business filings, with the same year-round access to advice. That connection matters when personal tax decisions, like retirement contributions, land purchases, or gifting shares to the next generation, directly affect the business's tax position too.
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Get started with a CPA who knows your industry
The TruCount team works with farmers, agribusiness operators, and professional service business owners in the Brookings area and across the Midwest. We built this firm around one idea: you shouldn't have to become a bookkeeper to run your business well. Schedule a consultation and find out what fixed-fee, year-round accounting actually feels like.
Why clients trust us
- Julie Underwood, CPA
- AICPA member firm
- South Dakota Society of CPAs member
- Brookings Area Chamber of Commerce member
- 13 years of combined team tenure, 51 years of collective accounting experience