Tim Finerty

Tim Finerty

Shareholder, Industrial Automation

Tim provides tax, accounting and consulting support to help industrial automation companies maximize profitability.

What is your area of focus?

I provide high-level tax, accounting and consulting services to business owners of domestic closely-held companies and foreign-owned subsidiaries. As practice leader for our Industrial Automation sector, I am particularly attuned to the needs of system integrators, manufacturers and distributors; guiding many on their growth and strategic plans, including expansion to other states and countries with a focus on Mexico.

How long have you been at Clayton & McKervey?

Since 2001

What is the favorite part about your job?

Providing value-added services that meet my clients’ needs.

Specializations

  • Advice and counsel to entrepreneurial business owners
  • Research & Experimentation tax credits and IC-DISC analysis
  • Mexican & Latin American tax and accounting: entity structure, transfer pricing, exchange rates
  • Assurance services with focus on Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Mid-Sized Entities
  • Consultation for improving key financial indicators
  • Digital Transformation

Education

  • Bachelor of Science in Accounting, Michigan State University

Connections

  • Automation Alley, Board Member & International Business Advisory Council
  • Control Systems Integrators Association, Affinity Program
  • Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants, Manufacturing Task Force
  • Association for Advancing Automation
  • Pine Lake Country Club, Board Member

Tim 360°

If you had to choose a different job, what would it be?
A professional golfer

What’s your favorite movie line?
Show me the money!

If you could learn anything, what would it be?
How to fly an airplane

Articles by Tim Finerty

Independent Contractors in Mexico

by Tim Finerty

Private Company Reporting Options – “FRF for SMEs” vs. “Private Company Council GAAP”

by Tim Finerty

Financial Reporting Framework for Small and Medium Sized Entities

by Tim Finerty

Mexico’s Tax Amnesty Program

by Tim Finerty

Expanding to Brazil – What You Should Know

by Tim Finerty

Differences between IFRS and GAAP

by Tim Finerty

IC-DISC: Reducing US and Foreign Income Tax Liabilities

by Tim Finerty

Considering Doing Business in Mexico?

by Tim Finerty

The Sound of Automation Podcast

Industrial automation businesses are the driving force behind Industry 4.0, and Clayton & McKervey is here to help.

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