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Mickey Latuso, CPA Mickey graduated from Louisiana State University in January of 1963, and obtained his Certified Public Accountant designation in July of 1969. He possesses over 40 years of experience in the field of public accounting. Mickey has served on the board of numerous non profit and civic organizations. Among them being Cancer Leukemia of Ascension, Crippled Citizens of Ascension, March of Dimes, and The Gonzales Rotary Club. He is an active member of St. Theresa of Avila Catholic Church in Gonzales, where he served on the Parish Council as a member of the Finance Committee. He is also a Tribunal Advocate for the Catholic Diocesse of Baton Rouge. |
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Yvette Poret-Crochet, CPA Yvette graduated Cum Laude from Louisiana State University in May of 1990 with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting where she was a member of such honor societies as Beta Alpha Psi, Beta Gamma Sigma, Alpha Lambda Delta, and Phi Kappa Phi. She began her career as a Staff Accountant for Ernst and Young and served previous stints with The Rehabilitation Hospital of Baton Rouge, the corporate office of McDonalds in Baton Rouge, as well as a local CPA firm. Yvette has extensive experience in tax, audits, consultation, financial statements, and management. She has experience working with various entities. Among them being governmental programs, trust funds, small businesses, pension plans, large entities, and non-profit organizations. |
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Larry Latuso, CPA Larry has approximately thirty-eight years of public accounting experience providing audit services to small and medium size, privately owned businesses, as well as to large, publicly held companies. He served as a manager-in-charge of an audit department for a national certified public accounting firm. During this time, he supervised as many as ten auditors in all phases of auditing and financial statement preparation. Larry has served various industries including: automobile dealers, construction, consumer finance, distributors, fast-food chains, hotels, hospitals, manufacturing, mortgage banking, municipal government, retailers, television stations, wholesalers, and various non-profit organizations. Larry has been an audit instructor and a member of the quality control review team for a national CPA firm. He has also served on the Louisiana State Board of CPA’s peer review team and has been an instructor for continuing education for the Louisiana State Society of CPA’s. His specific audit experience is as follows: 1. Four years with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Company, (now KPMG, LLP) the largest CPA firm in the world at that time. 2. Four years as a manager-in-charge of the Baton Rouge audit department for Seidman & Seidman, (now BDO Seidman), the fifteenth largest CPA firm in the United State. During his years with Seidman & Seidman, he was an audit instructor at several national level conferences and has served on the audit quality control review team. 3. Thirty years as the partner-in-charge of the audit department for Latuso & Company and Latuso, Inc. (APAC). |
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Katy Maxwell, EA Katy Maxwell, a native of Salt Lake City, is a thirty-year resident of Gonzales She has worked in our Gonzales Office under Mickey Latuso since 1992, and brings 30 years of tax experience, including twenty years as an enrolled agent to the firm. In her spare time, Katy enjoys time with her grandchild (“the princess”), reading, and quilting. |
Mickey Latuso began his public accounting practice in 1966 in Gonzales, Louisiana. Yvette Poret-Crochet, CPA, LLC was established in January of 2000 to provide quality accounting services to individuals and small businesses in the Baton Rouge and Lafayette areas. Latuso & Johnson, CPA, LLC was born from the merger of Mickey's firm and another established practice in Baton Rouge in January 2006. Yvette's firm merged with Latuso and Johnson, CPA, LLC in January 2007. This integration expanded Latuso and Johnson’s presence to the Lafayette area. Simultaneously, Yvette established an office in the Campus Federal Credit Union building on Perkins Road in Baton Rouge. Effective January 1, 2009 Larry Latuso merged Latuso Inc (APAC) public accounting practice into our firm. The merger further enhanced the firm’s experience and expertise in various areas of accounting and tax.
The firm is a member of the American Institue of Certified Public Accountants and the Society of Louisiana Certified Public Accountants. Within the AICPA the firm is a member of the Employee Benefit Plan Audit Quality Center and the Governmental Audit Quality Center.
Our Areas of Specialization
BOOKKEEPING
We tailor our accounting and bookkeeping services to your needs. If you prefer to have constant access to your accounting system, we will come to your place of business and perform the bookkeeping and accounting functions on site. If you prefer a more economical route, we will perform the bookkeeping functions in our office. We will provide as much or as little service as you need.
Some of the services we provide are; preparing checks for payroll, preparing checks for bill payments, preparing deposit slips, reconciling the bank statement, preparing invoices to send to customers, and compiling financial statements (balance sheets and income statements) and other management reports.
Some clients find it helpful to have us perform many of these tasks while we also teach their personnel how to perform them. Then as their personnel feel comfortable taking over the tasks, we reduce our service level to an as needed basis. In this situation we feel we have been successful when we have worked ourselves out of a job!
We want to serve as long as we can add value to your business.
AUDITS
Banks and other lending institutions often require their customers to submit audited, reviewed or compiled financial statements. An audit is when the CPA expresses an opinion on whether the financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. This is the most complex and therefore generally the most costly level of service.
We are experienced in the performance of "Single Audits" in accordance with Circular A-133 and "Yellow book" audits for non-profits and governmental entities
REVIEWS
A review is when the CPA performs some analytical procedures, but not enough to express an opinion on the financial statements. Generally the CPA can include in this report that he/she does not know of anything in the financial statements that is not in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
COMPILATION
A compilation is when the CPA takes information from management and puts it in the form of financial statements. The CPA does not perform any analytical procedures on the financial statements and expresses absolutely no opinion or any other form of assurance on them.
Our CPAs, CIAs and EAs bring over 100 years of auditing and accounting experience to our firm. We have experience in performing financial audits reviews and compilations for a wide variety of clients, including; small businesses, banks, non-profit organizations, pension plans, governmental agencies. Please come see what we can do for your company.
TAXES: BUSINESS AND INDIVIDUALS
Every year there are changes to the tax code and regulations that may affect your tax returns. We make it our business to stay informed about those changes in order to assist our clients in paying only those taxes which they are required to pay. We are experienced in preparing individual, S Corporation, C Corporation, Partnership, Non Profit, and Trust returns.
Tax time doesn’t have to include nasty surprises. The strategies we recommend are as individual as the clients themselves. Some people prefer to avoid a big tax bill at the end of the year. Others want to ensure that Uncle Sam doesn’t use have their money one day earlier than is required by law.
Whatever your preference, we can suggest a strategy to accomplish your goals. We would welcome the opportunity to assist you with your income tax return.