Other Services

Shaheen recognizes the growing need to reduce costs throughout an entire organization. It remains difficult for most firms to meet this need internally due to the lack of specialized expertise and time limitations. Corporations must look to outside consultants to assist in cost control. Shaheen maintains strategic relationships with a number of first-class consulting firms to help clients reduce their costs. Our partners share our same core values and are 100% independent with no vendor affiliation. We have partner relationships to provide services in the following specialties:

• Global Telecom Audits. We have strategic relationships with consultants in various regions, and we can service our clients in Canada, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
• Lease Audits: Commercial leases are often a major expense.  A typical real estate lease is heavily negotiated and full of many expense variables, including taxes, insurance, rent escalations, common area charges, and operating costs. Many commercial tenants overpay for their allocated share of costs. Lease audits often result in recoveries ranging anywhere from $2 to $8 a square foot. Equally important, billing corrections generate future savings each year until the termination of the lease.
• Sales Tax Audits: Early detection of compliance issues reduces the risk of ever-changing sales tax laws.  A tax audit generates sales tax recoveries from duplicate use tax payments, system related issues, misinterpretation of tax regulations, and the implementation of work process corrections to reflect tax law changes.
• Freight Audit: An audit of small parcel services (UPS, FedEx, DHL, etc.) eliminates over charges and leads to refund opportunities from inaccurate or duplicate billing and incorrect late charges.   It ensures you only pay for service you receive and that your rate incentive is correct.
• State Unemployment Insurance Expense: During the recent downturn, unemployment claims reached almost record numbers. But across the country, the methods and models that states use to calculate annual state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax rates fluctuate dramatically incorporating many different complex factors and variables. Because of this, many businesses may have been taxed at a higher rate than was appropriate. A review of your SUI charges could lead to a large recovery of taxes paid by your company and help to reduce your DUI spend for years to come.