Business valuations are needed for a variety of reasons, including mergers, buy/sell agreements, shareholder disputes, divorce and estate planning. When you choose a PBMares professional to perform your valuation, you are getting a team with the experience, expertise and judgment to deliver an independent analysis supported by accepted valuation methodologies.

Cybersecurity is one of the top issues businesses face. Threats can come from the inside, or they can be external. It is important to feel you are protected as new threats evolve. Our team of cyber experts will work with you to develop a customized plan that gives you the peace of mind you need to feel protected against new threats.

Preventing financial fraud is the best defense. Unfortunately, financial fraud can happen even with controls in place. That is why you need the team at Artifice Forensic Financial Services, a PBMares affiliate, on your side. With a traditional investigative experience, the Artifice team is up-to-date with cutting-edge forensic accounting techniques and is able to provide fraud vulnerability and risk assessments designed to test the effectiveness of your corporate compliance programs. Their expertise includes proactive and reactive services concerning compliance with statutes such as the BSA, AML, the Patriot Act, FPCA, ITAR, OFAC, BIS, EAR as well as with the SEC and other regulatory agencies. To give you the comfort level you need to feel you are protected, they measure your compliance efforts against the factors that government prosecutors and regulators use to determine corporate responsibility for any illegal actions of employees, agents or others.

The compliance and administrative burdens on employer-sponsored health plans and healthcare providers are immense. Understanding what payments, denials or coding may contain errors is a real headache. The professionals of TMDG, a PBMares affiliate, can help you better understand and reduce your risks.

Using proven methodologies, our experts look at your organization’s risk management processes. They identify, target, assess and mitigate key risks within the claim cycle for the purpose of safeguarding assets. For employer-sponsored health plans, our professionals conduct:

• Risk-based audits
• Electronic claims audits
• Statistical claims audits
• Operational reviews
• Focused claims audits

Offering retirement plans and programs is a tried-and-true way to attract and retain top talent. Many plan options are available, and designing a plan that will benefit you as well as your employees can be complicated. With clients ranging in size from small offices to companies with 2000+ employees, PBMares experts have the depth of experience to help you customize a plan that meet the needs of the company as well as its key employees.

Our experts also are available for employee benefit plan audits and we currently serve as the third party administrator of nearly 200 plans.

As a responsible business person, part of determining whether to move forward with a new venture or deciding to continue an existing product or service is conducting a profitability analysis. This analysis considers factors such as the cost of keeping and/or acquiring customers, customer lifetime value and market share. Understanding these kinds of issues helps you determine how to move forward and be profitable. Let us analyze your profitability so you can make better business decisions to increase it.

Having a strategic business plan in place before embarking on a new endeavor—a business expansion, succession plan or an entirely new business venture—has never been more important than it is today. There are many reasons for this, but the most important one might be that many historically successful tactics are being disrupted. These changes can affect every aspect of your business, from sales strategies to personnel management. Our industry has not been immune from these changes.

That’s why the PBMares team is well-prepared to help you design and implement a strategic plan structured enough to help you achieve your business goals and nimble enough to change along with market forces.

Having individual wealth comes with great responsibility: to yourself, your family and your goals and objectives. When you search for a wealth advisory team, you need to consider a firm that looks at all facets of your financial life through an objective, comprehensive planning lens. PBMares Wealth Management prioritizes the planning process because ultimately a sensible, analytical approach should determine which direction you should go to increase the probability of success.

In order to create a plan intended to help you achieve your retirement and estate planning goals while minimizing your taxes, your wealth advisory team will walk you through our four-step process:

• Discover – determine what your financial priorities and objectives really are
• Analyze – execute a detailed review of your investment and insurance portfolios, cash flow, balance sheet, tax and estate plan
• Identify – present you with key opportunities to optimize your financial plan, taxes, investment and insurance portfolios
• Implement – administer account paperwork, provide clear and concise reporting, execute the investment strategy and provide ongoing advice as your situation evolves