Maximize Growth, Minimize Stress: Acena’s Expert Approach to Tax Incentives

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Posted by Rae Fox-Smoltz, BSBA, BSENRE, Project Manager on May 1, 2025 7:32:18 AM

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Acena Consulting (Acena) provides proactive, responsive, and impactful tax-incentive services. Our firm focuses on simplifying and monetizing these financial tools to hone our partners’ competitive edge and potentiate their financial goals.

Our Expertise: R&D Tax Credits and Cost Segregation

Acena specializes in making intricate tax incentives accessible and actionable for our clients to ensure they capture earned opportunities.

  • R&D tax credits: Acena navigates the complexities of R&D tax credit eligibility at the federal and state levels. We help businesses of all sizes identify and claim these credits, which reduce tax burden and liberate capital for growth.
  • Cost segregation: Acena’s cost-segregation studies allow businesses to accelerate depreciation deductions by accurately classifying assets, which generates significant tax savings.
Beyond Our Deliverables: Client Education and Empowerment

Acena distinguishes itself by prioritizing education and empowering our partners to understand and leverage our services effectively. We offer free calculators, consultations, webinars, and resources to everyone traversing this landscape for the first time. We also provide tailored recommendations to our partners after each annual tax study to improve their financial outcomes year over year.

Our Partnerships: Diverse and Long-standing

Acena proudly collaborates with a broad spectrum of businesses and professionals to deliver impactful tax solutions.

  • Businesses and individuals: Acena reduces tax liability and increases cash flow by offering evaluations, customized solutions, and documentation support to maximize federal and state-level R&D tax credits.
  • Certified Public Accountant (CPA) firms and tax professionals: Acena helps clients lower their tax burdens, reduce their financial obligations, and drive working capital to their bottom lines.
  • Financial service firms: Acena aligns its knowledge and resources with those of financial service firms, enabling them to offer a broader suite of client services.
  • Real-estate agents: Acena enables key advantages through cost segregation, which accelerates depreciation and boosts cash flow.
Our Foundation: Acena’s Core Values

At Acena, our core values are the guiding principles that shape our every interaction and secure our delivery of exceptional value.

  • Excellence: We consistently deliver high-quality work to provide peace of mind and reliable solutions that our partners trust to drive their financial success.
  • Growth: We seek new education, experience, and training to provide our partners with the most updated knowledge and innovative strategies in the evolving tax landscape.
  • Humility: We prioritize our clients' needs and approach every engagement with a focus on understanding their objectives and delivering solutions that truly serve their best interests.
  • Integrity: We operate with unwavering honesty, dependability, and sound judgment, ensuring our partners are completely confident in our advice and the ethical foundation of our services.
  • Relationships: Our enduring relationships with clients cultivate open communication and facilitate collaborative, supportive partnerships.

Our Motivation: Empowering Financial Futures

Acena empowers businesses and individuals to achieve their financial aspirations through proactive, responsive, and impactful tax incentive services. By expertly navigating R&D tax credits and cost-segregation studies, we maximize cash flow, minimize tax liability, and equip our partners with the knowledge to make informed financial decisions. Our commitment to core values promotes client-centered partnerships that deliver tangible results and spur long-term success.

Schedule a free consultation today to receive immediate assistance from Randy Eickhoff, CPA, Acena’s Founder & Head Coach.

Stay Informed

Want to learn more about qualifying and documenting activities for R&D tax credits?

  • Register for our free monthly webinar, next scheduled on May 20: “Cracking the (Tax) Code for R&D.”
    • This workshop provides one CPE credit for professionals who are keeping up with continuing education.

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Edited by Laura Whittenburg, MSBME, Sr. Technical Writer at Acena Consulting. Photo courtesy of johnvoo_photographer on Flickr.
Rae Fox-Smoltz, BSBA, BSENRE, Project Manager

Rae Fox-Smoltz, BSBA, BSENRE, Project Manager

​With more than eight years of professional financial experience, Rae began her career in Venue Management and has several years of R&D tax consulting experience with both public accounting and boutique firms. She offers her expertise with calculating complicated tax credits by engaging in projects from start to finish, including meeting and consulting with clients, analyzing complex data, and preparing detailed and compliant client forms. She holds various degrees from University of Rhode Island, including bachelor’s degrees in business administration, environmental natural resource economics and sustainability, with minors in environmental engineering and interdisciplinary neuroscience. She grew up in Rhode Island and recently moved to Michigan with her husband and two sons.