Royer Advisors and Accountants is the full-service accounting, tax, and business advisory firm you rely on for answers, advice, and solutions for success.

Business Tax, Accounting + Advising

From routine tax preparation to complex reviews, sophisticated accounting to CFO services, Royer helps small and medium-sized businesses from start to success to succession.

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Maine's Premier Dental Accounting Firm

Specializing in financial management, consulting, reviews, reporting, valuation, buying, and selling of dental practices, Royer is more than expert CPA services.

Municipal Auditing

An independent, risk-based approach to ensure the accuracy of your financial information and the highest level of assurance.

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Valuation and Litigation Support Expertise

Retained by lawyers and claims professionals in commercial disputes for expert business valuations, business interruption losses, and damages for lost profits.

Who We Serve

Medium-sized businesses in construction, real estate, and manufacturing as well as closely held companies

Dental practices

Municipalities and school districts

“Austin Street Brewery has been working with Royer CPA for several years and they have been a great partner in helping us grow our business. In addition to business advisory services and a comprehensive tax team, their CPA and bookkeeping services have been paramount to our success. Their attention to detail and recordkeeping ensures that our organization is expertly accounted for from billing and invoicing to financial statements. I’ve worked with other accounting firms and Royer CPA is the best!”

– Will Fisher,Co-Founder and CEO, Austin Street Brewery

“Our friends at Royer provide the necessary backdrop of support for our rapidly growing dental organization. After several years of receiving their guidance and expertise, we are elated to say that we are blessed to have the Royer Team in our corner.”

– Nicholas Roy, DMD

“I met Rob Westhoven and the Royer team right out of dental school. Rob wanted to help me no matter what direction I went in. He was easy-going, someone you know will be in your corner – I could tell that right out of the gate. I knew his team could help lead me to whatever light there was in a very difficult market.”

– Dr. Jacob Fillebrown

The Royer Report

Tax Court Interprets Exceptions to the PAL Rules for Rental Properties

Due to depreciation write-offs and other allowable deductions, Maine real estate owners who rent their properties often incur tax losses. However, the ability to deduct those losses might be postponed indefinitely by the passive activity loss (PAL) rules. In general,...

‘Persuasive’ Defense Expert Testimony Defeats ESOP Overpayment Claims

Fish v. Greatbanc Trust Co., 2016 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 137351 (Sept. 1, 2016) In an important ESOP decision, the court dismissed claims that the defendants had committed breaches of fiduciary duty and engaged in a prohibited transaction. The case turned on the soundness...

Relying on Audit Techniques Guides

Before meeting with taxpayers and their professional representatives, IRS examiners usually do their homework. This includes reviewing any relevant Audit Techniques Guides (ATGs) that typically focus on a specific industry or audit-prone business transaction. ATGs are...

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