Scalable support for your growth
Franchise companies are an anchor for their communities, providing consistent products, services and opportunities. For hardworking entrepreneurs, franchises are a clear path to growth. However, franchisees must prioritize delivering exceptional guest experiences while navigating a tight labor market, adapting to evolving labor regulations and staying competitive amid rising operational costs.
Balancing these demands requires not only efficiency and agility but also a clear commitment to brand values and service excellence.
To take full advantage of your opportunities as a franchisor or franchisee, you need the right process and tools to maintain higher brand and quality standards — and experienced support.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli’s franchise consulting services offer guidance for every stage of your business. Whether you’re an entrepreneur setting up your first location or a multi-unit franchise owner looking to upgrade your processes and systems, our team can help.
With comprehensive services for franchisees and franchisors, we can focus on the painful parts of your business — including audit and compliance, tax and financial planning, IT and human resources — so that you can focus on growth. Our services also scale with you, providing guidance tailored to your level of need.
Tax services
Wipfli takes a comprehensive approach to delivering industry-experienced tax support. Whether you need to navigate tax compliance and planning, cost segregation or state and local tax law, we can help you minimize tax exposure and achieve your goals.
Assurance services
Go beyond reporting to get actionable recommendations for how to strengthen your business. Wipfli’s assurance services do more than help mitigate risk or verify financial statements. We leverage our CPA foundation to help you find ways to optimize performance and drive franchise growth.
Outsourced services
Add experience and flexibility to your back office without the cost or complexity of hiring. Wipfli’s outsourced services for franchises help you manage critical functions — including finance and accounting, HR and technology — as well as develop effective strategies and streamline operations.
Transaction advisory services
Get end-to-end support for your M&A deal with Wipfli’s transaction advisory services. We help you maximize the value of your transaction with support for buy-side and sell-side M&A, investment banking and valuations.
Digital services
Wipfli’s digital team can help you navigate the complexity of multi-location technology needs. We offer a wide range of services, including data and analytics, cybersecurity and digital strategy support to help you build a capable technology ecosystem.
Organizational performance consulting
Wipfli’s organizational performance services help you address critical areas of your business, including strategic planning and process improvement so that you can achieve sustainable growth. We also offer leadership development and coaching services that go beyond upskilling to empower lasting behavioral change.
Risk advisory services
Mitigate risk and achieve greater productivity with Wipfli’s risk advisory services. Our multidisciplinary team can help you navigate complex risk and compliance challenges with support, including internal controls advisory and fraud investigation services.
Private client services
Wipfli helps you build a stronger foundation for your future with support for estate and gift planning, succession planning and wealth management. Our advisors listen first so that they can help you fully understand the potential tax consequences of your plan and develop comprehensive solutions to meet your goals.
Our team
Kelly R. Runge, CPA
Kelly Runge is a partner in Wipfli’s business advisory services practice. She provides consulting services for small and medium-sized companies. Kelly helps her clients meet their ongoing compliance needs as well as their short- and long-term business objectives.
Ryan Swiderski
Ryan Swiderski is a technology partner serving the MRD practice. He leads Wipfli’s retail and consumer products industry, specializing in CX tech, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, ERPs, business intelligence solutions and more.
Adam Hill, CPA
Adam Hill works with corporations and closely held businesses in a variety of industries. Since 2007, he has audited clients in the not-for-profit, manufacturing and distribution, oil and gas, banking, construction, wholesale and healthcare industries at national, regional and local public accounting firms.
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Culvers Nichols
Our outsourced accounting services helped this Culvers franchise owner streamline bookkeeping so that she could spend more time growing the business.
