Many small business owners confuse bookkeeping with certified public accounting. While both handle financial data, their roles are distinct and serve different purposes.
A bookkeeper maintains the general ledger, reconciles bank accounts, and tracks daily transactions. They are the historians of your daily financial activities.
A CPA analyzes the bookkeeper's data to engineer tax strategies, prepare complex federal returns, and execute financial forecasting. We offer both under one roof to ensure data integrity.
We handle both your ledger and your complex federal tax code.
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Technically yes, if they have a PTIN. However, they cannot defend you in an audit, and they likely do not have the depth of training required to execute legal entity-level tax strategies.
Yes, an integrated firm where the bookkeeper and CPA work under the same roof ensures that daily data is structured exactly how the CPA needs it for aggressive tax deductions.
When a business crosses into multi-state operations, requires financing/loans that need reviewed statements, or exceeds standard sole-proprietor thresholds.
